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I had been playing all morning when some guy was selling black dye. I asked him how much he wanted and he said 2.5k, to which I replied "HAHAHAHA thats what the vendor is selling it for!". Not 5 minutes later I tried to switch characters and it said my account was blocked due to "inappropriate behavior" ... "will be blocked for several hours". How inappropriate is "HAHAHAHAHA"? I did not say a word to anybody else ALL DAY so this HAD to be what it was about.

I wonder how many people are going to lose their accounts due to this Naziism? Needless to say I am a little pissed about this, and this highly affects my opinion of this game.

Look at this crap!

http://forums.gwonline.net/showthread.php?t=343528&page=1&pp=10

What the hell is so offensive about "Aborted fetus"??

I guess they locked my account for using the name "E Bortion". Last time I checked that wasn't even a word.

You have a game where you walk around using satanic magic, killing hordes of people and monsters, carrying their looted intestines in your bags,  yet ABORTION seems to be offensive.

People are stupid, duh.


This is why I reserve Stupid Names for throw-away PvP characters.


Hopefully "Veronica Zemanova" isn't deemed "offensive."

Don't worry, last night I saw someone called Avena Leet.

My guess would be that either the dye seller or a random passerby reported your name out of spite or oversensitivity, respectively.

When dye drops I just leave it on the ground.

Do you have any clue how much the name "Aborted Fetus" (or by extension E Bortion) would piss of a mother? Seriously. It would piss one off more than "Cleveland Steamer" would. Dye Trader was a mother, pure and simple.

Here's a tip: don't use stupid names.

We've had this discussion before with other games like WoW and I'm all in favor of the developers/publishers cracking down on people who insist on coming up with stupid and/or offensive names. However, in defense of the people getting banned in Guild Wars, there's nothing on the character creation screens which explains the naming policy for the game. You have to go to the Website and dig around their Support FAQ system before it is described. You would think that such a draconian policy (most MMOs just make you change it rather than ban you outright) would be prominately displayed during character creation and on their Website.

Agreed.  I can't support stupid names like that (I'm gonna name myself shithead, huh huh huh) but I really can't see banning people for something like that... just stick them with something like "Retarded Player 19383."

Thats ... brilliant. And I'm serious here.   On the one hand the perps hide their crimes behind a new name, but on the other they don't chose their new name and the fact that they will bear a mark, in the form of their new name, that shows that they did SOMETHING stupid, will hurt their prospectives.  No good way of deailing with repeat offenders or wrongful accusations though, except through multiple teirs of names, which would be a poor deterrent.  But its a better start than most.

And imagine the unintended hilarity!
A: Heal 19383 now!
19383 dies
B: GOD DAMN IT! I said heal 19383, not 18393 you n00b!
B:

Guild Wars just asks for stupid names with its first name/surname combination, together with the disposble aspect of PVP chars, and its FPS like setup with PVP. Ive used Anu Sol and Combi Canesten (and worse) amongst others, im sure ill dig em out again next time i delete/create a new character. Naming policies are useless in a game like this, you might as well try and enforce serious army-like names on Counterstrike servers.

Don't be an idiot - it is in their interest to ban your account so you go buy a new one.

Being pissed because my character was deleted for having a name that isnt even a word is idiotic? get real. This is more than just the game, it's about oversensivitive, over-PC fucktarded americans who think everything should be happy fantasy land with nothing offensive in their sight.

If you knew how to read you would see that my account was not banned, it was locked for 5 hours and I was forced to delete the character.

They should introduce the ATitD system.

Someone in early ATitD named themselves 'Douchebag'. The player law system allowed someone to propose the law....

"The citizen of Eqypt known as Douchebag shall henceforth be known as Flower"

The law passed with one of the largest majorities ever seen in the game.

Flower quit pretty soon after the law was implemented.

It might have nothing to do with Americans. Don't be that guy.

I'm sorry you are a victim in this. I live a couple miles away from Arenanet, so here's what I will do. Grab a videocamera and a friend, go to your local mall, introduce yourself as ebortion, and explain how clever it is to everyone going in or out for an hour and ask if it is offensive. I'll hand deliver the tape to their office. Together we'll get your name back!

I'm glad to know that using your logic I can tell you to Sucmeoff Dikhed because it isnt a real word either. Not to Bruce, but I just see that you said locked and blocked. Don't see the outcome until you tell me I can't read.

I dread that Crotchpheasant may never see time in Guild Wars again. I should try to log him in just to see if he's banned.

I remember Flower.  That was pretty funny.

Come on EB, cut the crap.  You knew damn well that a name like "Aborted Fetus" would be controversial.  You chose to push the envelope and got bitch slapped.  Your righteous indignation is disingenuous and tiresome.

No, Aborted Fetus was his example of someone else getting banned for a similar name. EB's gripe is that since "E Bortion" isn't a real word, his stupidity shouldn't be punished.

When I see the word "bortion," I think of campfires and marshmallows and all things nice.

I don't know what's wrong with you assholes. :|

I still stand behind my point.

Well:

1)  These are the rules.  You broke the rules.  You got punished.  Boo hoo.
2)  Kids play this game.  There is no monthly fee, so kids are FAR MORE LIKELY to be playing this than any other MMOG.  I can't blame them for strictly enforcing a naming policy.
3)  E Bortion?  Really?  You thought that name was clever enough to fight for?  I mean, it's not like you're not allowed to have joke names.  Just not something that makes reference to killing fetuses.
4)  It's funny that you complain that Americans are to blame for this.  Personally, I'd say your "I should be exempt from the rules!" attitude is much more "American" than the "PC fucktardery."  YOU ARE THE ONE WHO IS THE BALL LICKER.
5)  Was this a roleplaying character or a PvP character?  If it was PvP, I have no problem with the deletion.  If it was roleplaying, I'd say they should've just renamed you something fairly retarded instead of your chosen, brutally retarded name.

I don't care what people name themselves.  It's hard to express in words how little I care.  Getting banned for your name?  Don't care.   Got arrested, sued, flogged for a silly name?  Still not caring.

I think I'm in one of those not giving a shit slumps again.  I'll try to care later.

Do you want to be an admin? You're perfect!

Everytime I cry out for a hug... you threaten me with a job!

You don't need a hug. You need to be dead inside like the rest of us orange names.

Personally I suspect there will be one or two people with genuinely borderline names, and I'd have thought a name change on first offence wouldn't be *that* hard to operate. But hey, it's not as if the grind in GW is espeicially long.

And there is a downside to naming restrictions. If stupid people don't give their characters stupid names, how am I supposed to identify them and avoid inviting them to my group?

Final point: blimey, the ArenaNet PR person doesn't half get free rein with their 'tude. This is practically pre-employment tweety.

If hassles for name choice are that bad, move to the EU server. No one gives a shit there. Its only uptight arseholes that report a name they might spot in a town, for 10 seconds, and then never see again, and that doesnt seem to happen on EU servers /shrug.  "PC fucktardery" is a product of North American culture, depsite what some people say. Only the blatantly obscene or offensive will be spotted, puns and entrendres are more likely to be applauded.

I saw him in the tombs yesterday with the name "E Bort."  Well, I guess it was him. He didn't respond. Oh, the shame!

Those were pretty cool replies by the Community guy, but I fear they are going to have to ban allot of accounts because some of that 5% will do nothing but go ape-shit and create pvp characters over and over with the most repulsive names they can think of when they get their ub3r lvl20 rp character named BungHole Liquor or whatever deleted.

Here's hoping they have a 2 or 3 black mark system where they say...Thanks for playing, you are no longer welcome here.

Always got to pick on the black mark don'tcha.  What's the matter, blue and purple marks not good enough for you?  Friggin' colorist bastard...

:-p
Xilren

1: Rules that can only be found by digging around in their support site. I bet you haven't seen them yourself. You probably didn't even know anything about their naming policy until you read my post. Thanks for your typically Generican remark, you have helped illustrate my point.

2: Kids will be exposed to the world anyway. If parents don't like kids hearing the word "Abortion" then perhaps they should remove them from school and lock them in a cement bunker deep beneath the earth. Maybe they will turn out to be actual decent people instead of some pea-brained partially-concious waste of perfectly good fecal matter like you.

3: Since when am I fighting for anything? Is that what the little voices in your head are telling you? I suppose you should really scroll up and reread my posts before making semi-alert halfwitted comments on things that aren't even there, although I do enjoy a good trolling. Thank you for making yourself an easy target.

4: I reiterate - learn to fucking read. I didn't blame Americans for losing my guildwars name. I simply stated that
american PC-ness has gone way too far. If you find everything offensive why don't you just go live in a unibomber shack in the middle of nowhere, and we will all be a little happier.  By the way, are you one of those people who stand on your porch next to your flag and talk about how you love america all day?

Or perhaps i could retardedly pick a single retarded adjective to retardedly use every  retarded alternating retarded word because I am too much of a fucking retard to come up with anything retardedly better.

Anyway if you want to post just to troll or flame, you should try a little harder. I suggest you stop plaigerizng "Big Book of Insults" and start making more appropriate comments rather than posting to see your own typing.

Yeah that was me.

Sorry, apparently it is I who should lean to read, I am checking into the hooked on ebonic series as we speak.

It's funny just how many parents refuse to recognize this.

1:
Common fucking sense.  Think to yourself, "Would I want my mother knowing that I named myself this?"  It's called being polite, the world would be better off if more people would do it with or without there being a giant obvious rulebook.

2:
Perhaps it's not the word itself, but the context?  For example- "Rape is a crime." versus "LOL we raped there asses!"  Someone naming themselves "Aborted Fetus" is making light of something that many people are very touchy about.  Your chosen name isn't as bad, but I can see their point of view- they enforce it on one person, they have to enforce it on another.  Even if it is slightly more subtle, it's still pretty much the same thing.

3:
Sorry, I misspoke.  Replace "fighting for" with "bitching about."

4:
Actually I'm an America-hating Liberal, but even I can't blame us for this one.  This isn't "American PCness gone rampant."  While I'll certainly agree that the PC stuff has gone too far in this country, your case isn't an example of that.  Your case is an example of a silly asshole who got bitch-slapped down then complained about it.



Sorry, I used the same word twice.  My bad.  Were you going to actually answer the question or just keep up the inflammatory, overly defensive bullshit?  Either one's good for me, but it seems you were too busy to notice that I was actually suggesting that maybe your punishment was disproportionate to your crime.  But I guess it's heresy to suggest that naming yourself something obviously rude and possibly offensive is a crime, and that you should be accountable for that.

Look, I named my PVP-only throwaway character Crotchpheasant. Knowing it was vulgar and/or offensive (and I thought quite funny). If it gets changed, /meh. Whatever, I expected it. It was done for a laugh. I LOLed, if he is removed, I'm over it. I've also had Moist Boy, Dirtier Sanchez and something else, and I never expected to get any of them, because frankly, in a fantasy game, or an all ages game, I probably shouldn't have been able to.

If you name yourself after (or even phonentically similar to) a medical procedure that is one of the biggest hot button emotional political issues in the fucking country, you should probably expect not to keep that name forever. The same goes for Tard Killer (which I chuckle at), or Crotchpheasant. In the end, it isn't worth getting even mildly upset about.

We've called these kinds of names Stupidiot names for years now.

Whenever someone says it's "for the chiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiildren"  you can bet it's not about the children at all.  It's about adults.

Things that I find unpleasant, hell yes, I wish my children don't/won't/wouldn't have to deal with.  But I won't use them as an excuse - and often people invoke "the chilllllllllllldren" even when they have none.

I wish I _could_ create the world my kids live in.  Since I can't, I need to create kids who can live in this one.

Instead of saying it's about children, one should say it's about decency, or manners, or How To Behave In Public.  We seem to be losing all sense of that, however.  (But people have been similarly complaining about that since time immemorial).

Very well said.

Sorry to be a douche and argue with him over it, but sometimes my e-peen gets the better of me and I can't help but respond to insults.  Sorry you all had to read it... or, rather, scroll down through it.

Somewhere on the WoW boards, they're laughing at this under the thread 'f13.net board message of the day'.

Now that is funny

I wouldn't mind the insult exchange so much if you people were better at it.


Edit:  I have to say... I did rather enjoy Llava calling himself a douche.

WINNAR!

Linkage please? This POS computer I have in Roma might explode if I have to search those boards.

You drank the water, didn't you?

It's here:

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?ForumName=wow-off-topic&ThreadID=378383

The water at the Republican Forum was great; nice and cool. It's the tap that sucks.

EDIT: It didn't give me the "runs," which is what I was expecting at first.

Beauty.

Extreme rofls for you, sir.

Thank god it's already on page 6. It seems that 90% of the posts in the offtopic forum are about WoW but are rants. Great place to stuff them.

I think e_bortion or whatever he wants to call himself, is just looking for reactions more than solutions.  He's just mad because he took an action thinking he was excercising some sort of 'right' but instead, got 'T-Bagged' by Arena.  I think it's funny.  Ever watch a little kid do something stupid and was told not to do it but did it anyway for whatever reason?  That's basically what this amounts to.  Go ahead, flame on.  When people have verbal diarrhea, they tend to sit on 'the pot' a long time.

even the wife laughed at this (she thinks people are stupid for playing computer games, let alone going to forums to talk about playing games), which is high praise.

In-line sig images.  Do we still castrate for that, or did we relent and step it down to forkrape?  I always forget.

Seems like something that would be hard to forget (castration).  How'd you do it?  =P

Plastic Arby's Spork and tweezers.

Heheheh!  Good one!  :-D

Yet another fucktarded moron who barely has the common sense to store food for the hive to survive the winter. Again I ask anybody to point out exactly where these rules were flashed in my face. You have to dig in the guildwars website support section to find the naming policy. Besides as I said, I am not all that hurt by it, so keep dreaming and fantisizing about young boys crying at their computer if you must, I am sure it is nothing new to you.

1: If you really care what your mother thinks about your little game characters, you have problems man.

2: How many fucking times must this be repeated before you understand? ABORTED FETUS WAS NOT MY CHARACTERS NAME.

3: or inanely babbling in your case.

4: You wouldn't know the difference if it raped your bleeding anal canal.

I prefer the inflammatory bullshit. Enjoy.

Off with my head for being a bad bad man. Look mommy... look at the bad bad man.

Like I said, verbal diarrhea....

I don't have this delusional sense of fantasy that you describe.

Again, you are just lacking the mental faculties to comprehend things that are common knowledge to the rest of us.  I understand now how you came up with your name(s).  Some how, you managed to sneak through the Quality Control phase of life.  Your name(s) ironically reflect what you should have been.  Somehow, you managed to live this long and I refuse to believe that someone of your quality has made it this far.  Good argument for post-natal abortion.

Why do you insist on having BIG SIGNS pointing everything out to you?  Mainly, common sense 'rules of civilization'.  Do you really have to have BIG SIGNS pointing everything out for you?  Signs like, 'Don't touch!  Burning flames are hot!"?  From eveything you have said down to your primary complaint of the 'naming policy' itself, proves that you are mentally incompetent of understanding anything logical.  The only thing you are good at that I can see is... nothing!  You're a waste of bandwith on the information super highway!

I can see how this world has come to such a 'punitive damage' type of society!  It's because of people like you who have to have everything spelled out for them.  I can see that you have to have somebody constantly reminding you of things that should be 'common sense'.  I have no sympathy for you.  I do have sympathy for those that have to put up with your nonsense though.   :evil:

Where did you find this?  Is this a real quote from an Arena Net CRM?

I wish that _all_ MMOGs would take this approach, including the pay-to-plays.  It would certainly enrich my gaming experience - after all, one of the reasons I play games is to get away from my kids.  When I have to be around other people who act childish, it's an incentive for me to find something else to do to get away from my kids.

I'd play a game with pay-to-use CSRs.  I can count on one hand the number of times I've needed one in the years I've been playing.

It's a quote from one of the links way up the top of this thread.

Then I defy you to explain what the name E Bortion means. If you get it right you win a lifesize big fat sloppy sweating cookie that lives in its moms basement combing message boards for somebody to "flame" (term used loosely) resembling you.


This common sense that you speak of doesn't stop you from being a complete fucking fagtard in the forums, does it. Nice use of bandwidth genius, you just blew your own argument right out of the water.

Next.

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E-Bortion: noun. Wherein someone claims that the terrible stress of generating Internet Drama causes them to have a miscarriage. Of course, this is always blamed on everyone else and not the alleged victim. See also "Attention Whore" and "Skank"


Quite fitting if you ask me.

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I wonder if "Rajin Morningwood" would get banned? I'm so sick of seeing some combination of Raven, Wood, Claw, Silver, Blade, etc. as a name. And how many chicks need to be named Fiona? Creativity, people!

I totally wanna use Morningwood. I was gonna use my porn name, Goldie Lame (la-may, not 'lame'), but I wanted you guys to be able to recognize me if I ever ran into any of you.

Spell it Mourningwood and it might not be obvious ;)

Oh, and my porn name is Dick Aiken. Actually not so much a name as a way of life. Wait...did I think that or did I type that out loud?