BAN stupid names

[JohannusEricksson]

Please ban the use of non-roleplaying CS-type names such as xxXArmyXxx etc, encourage and reward roleplaying.

[Izanami]

I would rather see a million "stupid" names than one more out and out offensive name.

Also, who is to decide what is and is not stupid? Would you expect some kind of list to be set up to tell you what you can name your character? Or maybe ANet should name your character for you so there is no danger of being stupid.

How exactly would you expect to implement this?

[JohannusEricksson]

I would rather see a million "stupid" names than one more out and out offensive name.

Also, who is to decide what is and is not stupid? Would you expect some kind of list to be set up to tell you what you can name your character? Or maybe ANet should name your character for you so there is no danger of being stupid.

How exactly would you expect to implement this?

Quite easy really, and offensive names would also be classed as non-roleplaying names (since they are).

They could either give examples such Legolas Fairbrow (I know bad example but hey) or even common first and last names for the various cultures that are there.

You have to admit, xxXArmyXxx, @rsehole (yes I've met him), 'I can't kill that' (met her too) etc are stupid names and not names that people would use in the 'real' world so why use them in a world that is meant to be 'real' and where your avatar represents you?

[katya]

I'll agree that names like that is silly, but at the same time this is not a hardcore RPG. So I'll say no - so long as names remain civil - let them call themselves whatever they will.

[Zeittotschlager]

Yeah, I wish everyone would put more effort into having names that fit the game world, but I don't see this happening. Hard to enforce, and annoying for people rerolling PvP chars all the time.

RP names aren't always great either...

If I see another ranger named Legolas, Leegolas, Lagoolas, some other permutation, I think I'll explode. :angry:

[xXBinaryXx]

Please ban the use of non-roleplaying CS-type names such as xxXArmyXxx etc, encourage and reward roleplaying.

You know what offends me? People who make inconsiderate remarks like yourself without thinking it through or for their own selfish reasons. If I choose to have my name as xX....Xx then that is MY perogative - not yours.

If I chose to be even more sensitive (and believe me, I am pretty p***** right now reading this!) then I could interpret "Johannus" as an adaption of "Your ....." and suggest YOU are banned. :angry:

For your information, I do not play CS:S. My nick is solely as deriviation of "Binary" which I use on other forums and was in use here at the time - hence I adapted it slightly.

[Lady Rhonwyn]

What names people use is their own right. As long as it's not offensive.

And what is a good RP name? I can invent a RP world in which such names as you say aren't RP names are common. There could even be a cultures in Cantha or Tyria that has such names as normal names.

They could either give examples such Legolas Fairbrow (I know bad example but hey) or even common first and last names for the various cultures that are there.They did when I first created my character. And still people decided on "not-normal" names.

You have to admit, xxXArmyXxx, @rsehole (yes I've met him), 'I can't kill that' (met her too) etc are stupid names and not names that people would use in the 'real' world so why use them in a world that is meant to be 'real' and where your avatar represents you?I wouldn't want to be called Lady Death or Lady Spirit in the real world either. And yet, I've two characters with those names.

So, unless a name is offensive (because then you have a reason to complain and that hole in somebodies behind is comming close) leave a person his/her freedom of naming a character.

[JohannusEricksson]

MY perogative - not yours.
Where did I state it was mine? Suggestions were asked for and I gave it. Never claimed it was my perogative.

then I could interpret "Johannus" as an adaption of "Your ....." and suggest YOU are banned. :angry:
Sorry, completely lost in translation. What on earth are you on about? And how on earth does someone find something rude in Johannus?

For your information, I do not play CS:S. My nick is solely as deriviation of "Binary" which I use on other forums and was in use here at the time - hence I adapted it slightly.

Jolly good. But I'm not talking about forums, I'm talking about GW. Or have I posted in 'suggestions for the site' rather than 'suggestions for GW'?

If I see another ranger named Legolas, Leegolas, Lagoolas, some other permutation, I think I'll explode. :angry:
Lol, Lag-alas would be about right for me now :)

[Domino]

It's also funny how just about every assassin I've seen has the word "shadowblade" in the name.... or "shadow" something

There are a bunch of Drizzt Do'Urdens running around too... which I thought was amusing.

but to be honest, I don't care. There are bigger things to worry about then some person's name.

[Findariel]

Ban stupid names?
It would cause the biggest riot in GW history as 40% would see his/her name banned :grin:

Count the o name o, x name x, xx name xx, | name |, and so on .. dazzling!

[Meriadeg Swiftknife]

Do they ban characters wearing names such as "Puta Del Barrio" ?
This means something like cheap whore in Spanish...

I have seen many sexually explicit names in various languages, and I was wondering if they would ban them ?

Anet has asked a girl to change her Ele's name, because "Hurricane Katrina" had been considered offensive. Her characters was already old by the time of the hurricane that hit Louisiana. Well, Katrina was her real name, and Hurricane was because she specialized in Air Magic. What do you think of that ?

[xXBinaryXx]

Where did I state it was mine? Suggestions were asked for and I gave it. Never claimed it was my perogative.

Suggestions werent asked for. You were the original poster and you stated the names/kind of names you wished to see banned. Therefore its fair to assume that you have a problem with this kind of name. Why make the thread in the first place!


Sorry, completely lost in translation. What on earth are you on about? And how on earth does someone find something rude in Johannus?

No offence intended, but if you cant see it then you need to get out more.

Jolly good. But I'm not talking about forums, I'm talking about GW. Or have I posted in 'suggestions for the site' rather than 'suggestions for GW'?

Firstly you did not make yourself clear whether it was one or the other or both you were refering to. Secondly, I use my name in both game and forum.

On the whole, I think the thread is a waste. As others have said, there is a plethora of names used which are either offensive, innane, stupid or just "rip off's" of films/books.

A lot of these names I see and find them to be amusing, whether they are meant to be funny or not. If you dont like them then ignore them or just dont spend so much time looking at them. If I go into a town or outpost I can do what I need and go out again without even remembering one single other persons name.

EDIT: By the way, spend a bit of time on the forum and you'll see that there isnt a specific "suggestions for the site" area. Maybe you are confused with another site.

[Auntie I]

Carefully boys and girls.
Agree / disagree but be polite.

[nkuvu]

Please ban the use of non-roleplaying CS-type names such as xxXArmyXxx etc, encourage and reward roleplaying.
Because, of course, everyone playing the game is spending tons of time roleplaying. In fact, no one does anything else. So people with these names are obviously griefers, they should just be banned.
[/sarcasm]

Nope, sorry, the roleplayers are a serious minority in the game. In the ten months or so that I've been playing, I saw one group of people who were roleplaying who didn't get a hard time about it. And that's because I was the only other person in town.

I have nothing against people who want to roleplay in game. But it takes a lot more than a name change to be able to do this. The people named xxxXXFooXXxxx xxxXXBarXXxxx probably don't care about roleplaying. And even if they did have their name changed to something that would fit into your roleplaying world, they'd probably still trash talk you in town. (Note, the "you" I am referring to is a general roleplaying "you," not attempting to single anyone out)

From my experience, roleplayers have to ignore a lot more disruptive behavior than just names. So forcing a name change would cause nothing but outrage.

[MixedVariety]

Had to prune a couple of posts that were pushing the envelope, folks. Let's try to discuss and not flame.

[Jarreth Tal]

I have nothing against people who want to roleplay in game. But it takes a lot more than a name change to be able to do this. The people named xxxXXFooXXxxx xxxXXBarXXxxx probably don't care about roleplaying. And even if they did have their name changed to something that would fit into your roleplaying world, they'd probably still trash talk you in town. (Note, the "you" I am referring to is a general roleplaying "you," not attempting to single anyone out)

Hear, hear. Considering some of the behavior I witnessed yesterday during the finale, I wouldn't be surprised that a lot of people would flame themselves into banning if this were to take place. I give my storage characters the last name of "Storage". I don't see the need to give them a more 'roleplaying' name.

Jarreth Tal.

[OrionH]

Only offensive names should be banned... but then again, different people are offended by different things... obviously names containing swearing or derivatives of swearing should be banned... i guess one of my IGNs could be considered offensive by some if you play on the words of it, but no-one has complained about it thus far!

Johannus... im surprised you cant see the alternative translation to ur name!

Stupid names can be a pain... at times, but the Xx....xX aint one of them. As binary has already said, that's a handy way to be able to use a common name if your original name had already been taken.

[Ashberry]

I'm in two minds about this.

On one hand. Letting people come up with silly names is a good indicator to the kind of player they are. While its not infallible it does work more often than not and you know who to avoid.

On the other hand. It does distract from the game seeing completely out of place names littering the gameworld. Names that just don't fit. Same with _many_ guild names too. And I include my own in this aswell, if I was being strict I'd force me to change mine too. Just seems so.. I dunno, why? Why do some people name characters like they do. It's like getting a tattoo of a girlfriends name only for her to dump you a week later. For a week it seemed cool but then your left with this constant reminder than your not all that intelligent and everyone knows it.


So I dunno.. One time change to give people a chance to come up with sensible names then enforce the rest heh *shrugs* Or keep them and know at a glance who to ignore and who to play with.

[Kyso No Oni]

It's also funny how just about every assassin I've seen has the word "shadowblade" in the name.... or "shadow" something

There are a bunch of Drizzt Do'Urdens running around too... which I thought was amusing.

but to be honest, I don't care. There are bigger things to worry about then some person's name.


If I see another ranger named Legolas, Leegolas, Lagoolas, some other permutation, I think I'll explode

what about naruto;

N A R U T O
NARUT O
I am teh naruto
ninja naruto
little naruto
i love naruto
i hate naruto
something to do with naruto
Na Ruto

I MEAN COME ON

its worse than Leg O Lass or whatever..

[Zeittotschlager]

what about naruto?

What's a naruto? :shocked:

[Ashberry]

What's a naruto? :shocked:

Something all the ninja assassin wannabe kids wish their moms had called them I guess.

http://www.asylum-anime.com/pboards/naruto-0204C.jpg

He looks sooo much like a GW Assassin its just uncanny! :rolleyes:

[Raven Flameheart]

Almost all my current characters are "numbered" (Ninth Requiem, Eleventh Judgment, Sixth Emotion, etc). Would these count as good or bad choices? There is a huge grey area, and the moment banning takes place in the presence of such, bad things tend to happen. Many people have had forced name changes where the fault was accidental, if your measure was put into place, someone would have to decide, but what if they made a difficult choice?

Secondly, I don't think there's enough creativity in the sum of the GW population to account for all the characters of all the players. if I had to come up with "real names", I'd find problems. many of my desired names have previously been found to be already taken, in one case I took a name, then was pm'd by someone wanting to get hold of the person who had previously had that name. And I can't see how copying names from other places counts as RP at all. In fact, copying them is probably worse.

Thirdly, GW is not RP based at all. Not even close. There are a couple of fringe RP-ing guilds around, and I once grouped with someone who talked kind of RP-esque (didn't mind, it was done subtley and still worked well), but that's it.

Finally, I take a name to say a lot about someone. I'd rather invite someone with a name that is genuinely respectable than "X Da Smasha X" or even "Legolas Shadowbow". Just find a sub-set of the GW population and only group with them, and pretend the rest don't exist.

[OrionH]

Raven... I think the numbered names would be those with actual numbers rather than written as words... like 5678546 555... you know, just random number typed names where someone couldnt be bothered to actually think of a name.

Your names would be considered fine by the OP and his/her proposal im sure.

[katya]

I wonder if an alternative suggestion would not be to have a name generator built into the character generation screen?

That way, people who simply wish to copy a name from some character in a book/movie/celebrity has a clickable way to find something different? You might run out of names rather quickly, but with a thousand first names and a thousand last names you should have a reasonable number of combinations to work with.

Of course, this could be tailored by campaign to suit the flavour and so forth.

[OrionH]

I wonder if an alternative suggestion would not be to have a name generator built into the character generation screen?

That way, people who simply wish to copy a name from some character in a book/movie/celebrity has a clickable way to find something different? You might run out of names rather quickly, but with a thousand first names and a thousand last names you should have a reasonable number of combinations to work with.

Of course, this could be tailored by campaign to suit the flavour and so forth.

that sounds like a good idea, but it would take a lot to implement as someone would have to type in all those possible combinations to start off with in the coding.

[JohannusEricksson]

Suggestions werent asked for.
Can we start again? This is the SUGGESTIONS FORUM, for GW. Have I completely misread the sticky? If I have then I'll have this and all the other threads I posted here deleted. Mods, please clarify, in this suggestions forum, is it for GW or the forum and are suggestions for GW welcome or not?

[JohannusEricksson]

Mods, please just delete this thread it's pointless.

[Lady Rhonwyn]

Mods, please just delete this thread it's pointless.
I think one part of the reason of tone in this thread is your way of posting your suggestion.

You frame your suggestion not as a suggestion, like, "it would be nice if people were only able to enter RP-like names", instead you use the imperative: "Please, ban the use of non-RP names". If you do that, people will react in a negative way.

[Eros Hayashi]

ill post on topic, no they shouldent ban stupid names, they make me laugh somtimes lol, i saw a char called miss va gina, i no thats pretty childish but it made me laugh in salt spray when she was calling repeatadly,

"miss va gina is attacking ......."

im childish,.. i no :P

[Melly]

I actually like the stupid/silly names and have an archive of screenshots of peoples' silly names. It cracks me up for a minute and sometimes even takes the tension out for a while when someone has a silly name just to laugh over.

[xXBinaryXx]

I think one part of the reason of tone in this thread is your way of posting your suggestion.

You frame your suggestion not as a suggestion, like, "it would be nice if people were only able to enter RP-like names", instead you use the imperative: "Please, ban the use of non-RP names". If you do that, people will react in a negative way.

I agree. Personally I took afront at the suggestion that my name should be banned or no real reason. A differently worded suggestion as you state would have maybe not got my goat up. I saw it as a personal attack, whether intended or not and responded. With hindsight I meant no ill to Johannus (which I still find to be a funny name & funnier that he does not "get it" :wink: ) and do not think he meant ill either.

Perhaps as has been suggested by others, a way of keeping both camps happy would work if it could be incorporated, but I doubt its an easy thing to implement and begs the question; would Anet do it if it alienated a significant percentage of the current players?

[jackwooly]

I'm sorry Mr. OP but this has to be one of the most ridiculous ideas I have heard suggested for this game.

So what if we don't have a RP name? Maybe some of us don't care about all of this Japanese anime/fantasy stuff and just want to play a GAME. Yes, a GAME.
I for one have only one character, created yesterday, with a moderately RP name. The others are just random names, or names that I believe people would find amusing.
After all, we, the consumers, bought this game and in my opinion we should not be restricted in this way as it would leave Anet with less costumers and possibly even decrease game enjoyment.


P.S. Whoever has the name Wheelchair Ninja, delete that charcter as the name should be mine!:devil::angry2:

[Rob Van Der Sloot]

Most of the people in GW aren't roleplaying to begin with, so it would be rather silly to enforce roleplaying names all of a sudden.

Besides, I enjoy the occasional funny names. A fellow guildy of mine has a moa bird called "Lawn Moa", now that cracks me up every time I see it, no matter how silly it is. And what about other silly names like "Dial M for Monk" or something along those lines. I think that's hilarious.

If Guildwars would be "roleplaying-ONLY-names", then boy what a boring place it would be.

[moenbase]

I only find it sometimes annoying to invite ppl with redicilous long names with lots ooooo's, xxx's or something like that.

But I do wonder however how korean writings or whatever eastern countries come into English districts.
Since you can only start a character having the Roman symbols. A t/m Z
And no korean writing.
Is there a trick to do that?

[nytestalker]

Quite easy really, and offensive names would also be classed as non-roleplaying names (since they are).

They could either give examples such Legolas Fairbrow (I know bad example but hey) or even common first and last names for the various cultures that are there.

You have to admit, xxXArmyXxx, @rsehole (yes I've met him), 'I can't kill that' (met her too) etc are stupid names and not names that people would use in the 'real' world so why use them in a world that is meant to be 'real' and where your avatar represents you?


Roleplaying has a VERY small following.

AND WTF>

like xxarmyxx is anybetter than legolas fairbrow .... way to rip off lotr

[Dr Squidhead]

Coming from a role player; I actually prefer people having those types of names if there not interested in role play, at lest you know where you stand with them.

Besides, if you’re really RP'ing, you can’t claim to -see- the little floating names above peoples heads anyway. :wink:

Play your game and let other people play theirs. :smiley:

[Cerulean Niteshadow]

I have no trouble with the names unless they are offensive. It may not be the right thing to do, but when I meet people with names like xxwhoamixx or You Are Dead (did meet them) I realize they dont take the name serious then most likely they dont take the game serious and I dont go with them.

[Acathla]

I'll agree that names like that is silly, but at the same time this is not a hardcore RPG. So I'll say no - so long as names remain civil - let them call themselves whatever they will.

I greatly agree with Katya.

-Acathla

[aeternus vita]

I do not mind non-rp names as GW isn't aimed at any one particular group of people like rp'ers or hardcore pvp players. As long as it is not sexist, racist or otherwise offensive then I have no problem with people calling themselves anything (although people using xxx or ooo a lot I find annoying as it makes finding npcs in towns more difficult to click on)

[Jarreth Tal]

I only find it sometimes annoying to invite ppl with redicilous long names with lots ooooo's, xxx's or something like that.

But I do wonder however how korean writings or whatever eastern countries come into English districts.
Since you can only start a character having the Roman symbols. A t/m Z
And no korean writing.
Is there a trick to do that?

I think you mean Chinese characters.

Jarreth Tal.

[katya]

that sounds like a good idea, but it would take a lot to implement as someone would have to type in all those possible combinations to start off with in the coding.

True. They could probably speed it up (Partially) by siphoning the list of NPC names out of their database and mix-matching them, but it would still be a large undertaking.

@Johannus - it's okay, people discuss and while it might sometimes seem a bit vehement they're mostly a good bunch. This fangled intraweb thingy does hide a lot of body language and facial expression that might more often than not take the sting out of their words. Keep posting your suggestions, you've had some interesting ideas here!

[casserole]

"Stupid" is a relative term, you can't base anything upon it. Let people name their toons what they want, as long as it isn't offensive.

[falling demon]

completely disagreed, except for offensive names, we should be able to choose what names we want, like, i called my necro 'terrifi cani' and then i called my fire ele 'singed kthxbye'. would that mean i have to change my eles name? or would he simply get deleted? after spending about 40 platinum on skills + cap sigs, that is alot to me, since i personally do not like farming, so why should people have to delete characters that they spent time on?

[Masterpyro Reborn]

i think offensive name that put down other players and say stuff about other religions and stuff should be banned but other then that i agree with you..and Izanami..that would cost NCsoft alot of money to pay people to ban players for stupid names and they could spend that money better on server upgrades and larger HD so more players can join(not like they dont already have a couple TB on the servers..)

[Kahlan]

Something a couple people said upset me a little bit, and I just wanted to say to those who feel like names from books is a bad thing...

Excuse me for absolutely loving the Sword of Truth book series by Terry Goodkind. Kahlan happens to be my all time favorite character in the series. I'm so sorry if my name offends you that much. Don't look at it then.

[Zaxares]

I personally would love to see more roleplaying-oriented names in game, but banning people for having non-roleplaying names is going too far.

What I would like to see is the inclusion of roleplaying districts where people who like to roleplay can go and socialise. If a non-roleplayer comes in and starts giving the roleplayers grief, just /ignore, and report him/her.

[Riftbreaker Raven]

Yeah, I wish everyone would put more effort into having names that fit the game world, but I don't see this happening. Hard to enforce, and annoying for people rerolling PvP chars all the time.

RP names aren't always great either...

If I see another ranger named Legolas, Leegolas, Lagoolas, some other permutation, I think I'll explode. :angry:
another good example are all the naruto/kenshin assassins out there.