Name change candidate list

[soup]

I kinda feel sorry for this guy to be honest. How bitter does someone need to be to compile a list of this many names and post it on the forums hoping to get them changed?

[Shurid]

Originally Posted by cyrius

The policy will not be scrapped, it will be enforced. You can help out if you petition characters with such names, and this is no favorism. Sooner or later i will get you all

Posted by a server guide, the OP is just pointing out a few people who he "feels" violated the naming policy. Leave it to the guides/gm's/developers to determine if the names should be changed.

It is not up to you to determine if the names are ok, so stfu.

[Bones]

Originally Posted by soup [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I kinda feel sorry for this guy to be honest. How bitter does someone need to be to compile a list of this many names and post it on the forums hoping to get them changed?

This.
He obviously is one of those people who had their names changed and is mad about it.

[Muerte]

Originally Posted by soup [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I kinda feel sorry for this guy to be honest. How bitter does someone need to be to compile a list of this many names and post it on the forums hoping to get them changed?

Good point lol.

[guineapig]

One of my favorite tanks on live was Sheeron Collision. Say him through PoP, LDoN, GoD. He never had an issue with his name.

[ukaking]

My main on Live was Sslipknot Oppressor, Ikky warrior for 67 levels. Also used Superloco Spineripper, Ikky SK and Soulsick Damentia, Ikky Necro, Spiritwalkr, Ikky shaman.
None had an issue with naming policy.
The only times I got hammered for my names were...

Afrodeesiak- Erudite Wizzy (Drew to much attention to myself killing people in the Field of Bone, rapping in ooc while I was killing them and screaming about how they stole all the chicken from Erudin and they would pay with their lives until I got the chicken back for the sake of Erudin's economy)

Dragnet- Ikky SK (My friends and I made a bunch of lowbie chars with cop style names and would run around newbie area of Field of Bone attacking people saying, we got a 187 in progress and book em' Dan-O.)

[Mehav]

I haven't played for a few months, but I think it's kinda hilarious how picky people are starting to get about this. I played a troll shaman named Mehav Itchybawz through classic and up until omens of war basically, ran into gm's many times, had many conversations with them and never once was my name warned or removed. In fact multiple times they praised me for originality and thought it was a great comedic name, fitting for a troll.

There is a fine line though between poking fun at your race or class combinations and vulgar names like Kumbucket or celebrity names and some of the other retarded names people throw around here. In the end this is up to the discretion of the gms obviously but I can only hope you guys are going after the actual offensive names and not fun ones for the love of god. If people don't personally like a name because it isn't rp enough then that is their problem. Renaming people based on comedic combinations or phrases is fail imo, that is like the bread and butter of any gaming name/alias, as long as it is not offensive toward people I really don't get why you would enforce it, especially here.

[mr.miketastic]

Originally Posted by Mehav [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I haven't played for a few months, but I think it's kinda hilarious how picky people are starting to get about this. I played a troll shaman named Mehav Itchybawz through classic and up until omens of war basically, ran into gm's many times, had many conversations with them and never once was my name warned or removed. In fact multiple times they praised me for originality and thought it was a great comedic name, fitting for a troll.

There is a fine line though between poking fun at your race or class combinations and vulgar names like Kumbucket or celebrity names and some of the other retarded names people throw around here. In the end this is up to the discretion of the gms obviously but I can only hope you guys are going after the actual offensive names and not fun ones for the love of god. If people don't personally like a name because it isn't rp enough then that is their problem. Renaming people based on comedic combinations or phrases is fail imo, that is like the bread and butter of any gaming name/alias, as long as it is not offensive toward people I really don't get why you would enforce it, especially here.

From an RP aspect, it is quite possible that your toon's "parents" were as effed-up as some RL ones by choosing "cute" or "funny" names for their kids.

Examples:
Kal-El Coppola (Nicholas Cage's)

Moon-Unit Zappa
Dweezil Zappa

Other names:

Pina Colada, Cosmo Ranger, Yahoo,
Wrangler, Candy Stohr, Seamore Butts, Harry Bush, Page Turner, Lotta Bull, Nighten Day ET AL...

IMO, unless it is something downright freaking nasty or racist, the names should stay.

[bionicbadger]

Originally Posted by mr.miketastic [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Moon-Unit Zappa
Dweezil Zappa

Dweezil had to get his name legally changed to Dweezil since thats what his parents wanted to name him, but the hospital wouldn't enter that name on their records.

And Moon unit got her name from a) being their first child and thus making their family "unit", and b) Moon because its a normal name in other languages - "luna", "tsuki" etc so Frank thought why not in English?

[fastboy21]

Frankly, like others have said, there are some names on the list that would pass muster on some of the old live servers and some that would not. There are a very few that I think almost any reasonable person would object to, but the vast majority would have a variety of opinions on them.

I guess if the OPs intent was to help the GMs find names of ppl that need a renaming then he is trying to be helpful...if, on the other hand, he is trying to push his opinions as to what is reasonable then he needs to piss off.

I think the community votes with its behavior when it comes time for "Shitster" or "Ballsucker" to apply to a guild. I wouldn't even look at these guys for my old raiding guild past their name on their app post.

But that is a community standard, not something the game needs to necessarily address with forced name changes.