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Old 02-10-2019, 01:27 PM
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But to your point, the staff did crack down on naming violations not all that long ago. They did so with wild inconsistency, which led to a massive backlash from the player community, and then they stopped.

Maybe Rogean just wanted to send a message ("we can and will change names if we feel like it"). In that sense, maybe the rule isn't a rule at all (well, we all KNOW it's not a rule: the evidence of that is walking all over Norath), but rather a license: a license for the staff to change any names they feel like changing, whenever they feel like it. It's just that they only choose to exercise that license for particularly terrible names, or once in a blue moon to prove they can.

Maybe there was an internal division within the staff. Maybe the new GMs were like "why the hell do we have a rule if we don't enforce it?", so they started enforcing it, but then that created a backlash and Rogean was like "guys, I really don't give a crap about names, so cut it out".

The truth is we don't know why they briefly enforced a rule they never otherwise enforce, but really the reason doesn't matter: all you need to know is that the staff has only once ever enforced the rule (en masse) in the five or so years I've been here, and even then they only changed a small fraction of names, which means it's really not something Rogean cares about, which means it's not really a rule (again, it's really more like a license or warning from the staff). So we all have to just live with our 100% free and 95% accurate nostalgia game server and it's army of name-policy-violating names. Sometimes life is hard like that.
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