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wow_escapades

Blizzard Annoys Me

Feb 28, 2009 19:41

Tonight I sent in a report of someone named "LightKnightt" on Moon Guard for so obviously not being a "name". According to the ToS (and posted on WoW Wiki):

In addition to Blizzard's normal In-Game Policies, players on Roleplaying servers are expected to abide by the rules outlined in the Role Playing Policy. In summary, players should:

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salanthe March 1 2009, 02:35:25 UTC

Just try again. Apparently a lot of those reports are handled by individual GMs and not always are sympathetic to the ToS (or well-educated). You can get names changed but it might take a few tries.

wow_escapades March 1 2009, 02:44:09 UTC

Yea.. it's just kind of disheartening. I hate seeing those names on a role-playing server.

zephiyr March 1 2009, 03:33:05 UTC

Did you specify in your ticket that you were on an RP server?

GMs don't open the tickets by server...as far as I can tell they just get whichever is next in line. So the GM might have just been like "Lightknightt? Well, nothing offensive about that. NEXT" without realizing it was breaking violation on its server.

I've also heard that sometimes GMs will talk to the person whose name is being questioned and if they feel the name has a good enough story behind it they'll leave it alone and consider it justified.

Or, I dunno...sometimes I think it takes more than one report to get names changed. I know some guy named "Brbdaterape" didn't get a name change until several of my guildies reported him (after my initial ticket). Who knows!

wow_escapades March 1 2009, 14:15:08 UTC

Yes, whenever I put in a ticket for a name (which I do constantly lol) I always state I'm reporting (name) for a violation of the ToS due to the face that (name) isn't an actual "name" and Moon Guard is a role-playing server and thus requires names.

Maybe I'll create a little note pad file with the ToS info from WoW Wiki stating a name on a server requires being an actual NAME. :)

Often if it's something that could possibly be a nickname, I let it go. Example, if I were to see a rogue named "Slash" I could see it being a nickname. However, a rogue named "Istabu" isn't a "name" or "nickname" but rather someone being stupid.