Character Names

Mister Mentalist

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Dec 2007

i have a character called

The Rent Boy
And
Thai Lady Boy

Are These Offensive?

i hope not lucky they were nightfall chars and i cant use them yet asi havent bought it afetr being inactive for a year

Unreal Havoc

Guest

Join Date: Dec 2007

Quote:
Originally Posted by Xavz
This may be tangential to the topic at hand, but I really don't understand the appeal of dumb names like the one in question here. I don't ever RP; but giving a character a name like that doesn't make any sense to me. All the character names that I use are something that a person might actually be called as a name.

I doubt there are many people who use something like "Punk Azz Monk" as their name on a daily basis.
In PVE I'll give my characters proper names. In PVP anything goes! We have 3 Paragons with the following names that we run with the odd random Monk in AB:

I J I M M Y I

I S U P E R F L Y I

I S N U K A I

Harrier's haste

Harrier's haste

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jun 2007

ViLE

R/P

I like to give names of members of my favorite rock band:

Yomi
Sakito
XX Ni~ya XX (except u can't do the ~ thing in GW)
X Ruka X
XZ Hyde ZX

GloryFox

GloryFox

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2006

Good ol' USA, where everyone else wants to be

Now Plays World of Warcraft on Whisperwind

The whole name thing with A Net has been odd for a while now. It appears to me that more English speaking names get banned than other language names.

I've seen so very bad stuff in some of the Italian French German and Russian channels.

Then again if you translate some of the skill names into French or Italian you end up with another closed thread.

What I really don't get is why name Boobies is forbidden. We allow Hawk, and Raven. They are such cool birds too.

http://goaustralia.about.com/cs/anim.../blpicboo1.htm

Keithark

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Nov 2006

Be Aggressive B E Aggressive [AGRO]

E/Me

WOOT!!!! My first ban!! I hope it is my warrior name I been wanting to rename him for a long time and his name has Arse in it. I bet it was for my Im Sofa King XXXX toons though. Maybe OMFG imma monk? or Alfa Q Up? anyhow having to play on a friends old acccount for next 3 days so he will get all my factions But at least now I can /rank people

Elisa

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jan 2006

The Netherlands

Crystal Gladiators

W/Me

If people would grow up and actually take some time to think up a proper name instead of one that's funny for five minutes but has them posting up threads after three months telling ANet to include post-creation name changes, it wouldn't even be a problem.

I don't see how names like I Poked Jora can be witty for anymore than one or two quick glances over it.

Commander Ryker

Site Contributor

Join Date: Jun 2005

R/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Vinraith
There's a world full of shrill, hypersensitive morons that have nothing better to do with their time than complain about these kinds of things.
The world is also filled with insensitive morons who have nothing better to do then try and get around the rules/filters and offend people.