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Sorry this hits home for some of you, but it's about friggin time. The special characters are particularly out of control on Blackhand and it makes things very difficult. I've booted people from groups and raids for using them. I'm sorry your favorite name was taken but you really just need to deal.
Maybe they don't care if they get booted from a group or raid once in a while because of their name. Why do you care so much if they get to have the name they want? Just leave them out of your business, I'm sure they'd rather be ignored by you than not have the freedom to have the name they want. This is similar to the entire multiboxing argument - what did they do to you, shit in your cereal?Quote:
Originally Posted by 'elo',index.php?page=Thread&postID=157354#post1573 54
*sniff* yeah...i got brown stuffs in my rice crispies... *cries*Quote:
what did they do to you, shit in your cereal
im sure if there was a larger population of people that used these chars, they would be less apt to make such a change. but since its a very small minority of players, its only affecting a few in a bad way. you can please all the people sometimes, you can please some of the people all the time, but you cant please all the people all the time. just how it is... *shrug*
That.Quote:
Originally Posted by 'Ualaa',index.php?page=Thread&postID=157151#post15 7151
Which also makes me really wonder about who is smoking what. String validation is ridiculously simple. So is searching the name field of their character database for characters outside [a-z] and then flagging those for a name reset.
What's the point of rules you're going to halfheartedly enforce, when a child with some hobbyist computer experience could figure out roughly how to fix it?
It's been mentioned several times in this thread that special characters violate the naming policy - they don't. Take some time to read through the naming policy - http://us.blizzard.com/support/artic...l=true?rhtml=y
It's been said it used to violate the naming policy. Sometime around BC they removed that clause from the naming policy, and now they're putting it back in.Quote:
Originally Posted by 'Tehtsuo',index.php?page=Thread&postID=157557#post 157557
If you read the post, the words "used to" are pretty clearly left out. Also, Blizzard has not announced they are putting it back into the naming policy.Quote:
Originally Posted by 'kadaan',index.php?page=Thread&postID=157559#post1 57559
So at this point are you just arguing about semantics? The original post links to a blue saying that they do not allow special characters in names now. While it hasn't shown up in the official naming policy and probably isn't reportable, you have it from a blue that this change is intended.Quote:
Originally Posted by 'Tehtsuo',index.php?page=Thread&postID=157578#post 157578
I can understand you want to have the same name on your characters, really. Keep in mind that a lot of people are just flat out sick of special characters in people's names, it's mostly just a matter of opinion.
It would appear that the ascii characters were allowed back in as an oversight of some kind, which is why (after seeing such a huge influx of new ascii names) they suddenly reigned it back in. If that's true or not, who knows? None of us work for blizzard and can say for sure. I cannot find any kind of cached version of an older copy of the official blizzard naming policy so in my opinion I don't think that the wording on it has changed.
[s]Can we stop beating this dead horse now?[/s] (Answer to this is below.)
Um, hello. Semantics are important when you're referring to a Terms of Service document. That's why whenever someone claims multiboxing is against the Terms of Service, we're so very quick to point out that it is not. Blue posters said the current character creation limitations are working as intended. That does not mean the naming policy has changed, you are inferring that a change has been made.
ok um idk what is up with this but i just tried to make new characters with ascii characters in the names and made 5 no problems at all. they were Blödhgârm (acual spelling is Blödhgarm meanning blood wolf in the ancient language from the Eragon series ^_^), Möönfire, Moonfîre, Moonfìre, and Moonfïre. all of them worked. so either this thread is a bunch of bull or they recently changed it back to normal >_>. personaly i hope they allow these because i mean who cares if you can make a name that is neerly identicl as another persons. it is in all aspects fair to me that you can have the name that you want. but thats just my opinion.