Can we get a ban on certain names or add to your very incomplete list of things you block. Today was the second time I encountered someone from a German server with a name after a concentration camp (Dachou). No special characters used to go around it just straight up the name. And this is just a fraction of the example I would like to use. I use the LFG tool quite a bit as a healer so people sign up. I have seen a lot of names pass by of which I think wow that isn’t block really…
Anyway a bit weird that my example isn’t already blocked but can you take action please it is really far over the line.
Also I don’t mean to be harsh on this but 3 of my friends no longer want to play the game after having several run ins with German players. One was technically on one of your other games (OW2) and just doesn’t want anything to do with Blizzard in general anymore.
Please get some quality control/testing in place for this because it seems like there is barely anything else then a report for name right click button. Which seems as very little for players you clearly do not want running around pushing their ideas in your game.
This kind of signaling might not be spotted by players of different backgrounds however it serves them as a signaling and to hurt the ones that understand the meaning. This brings me mostly to our German players. You guys have to see this, are you actually reporting? If not why not? I mean come on man in 2024 really. I don’t even speak German I can filter them out so I am very sure someone speaking it could.
I am not easily impressed by what people saying online or of the opinion that everything should be sugar coated and blocked/filtered. But come on that 1940 stuff on WoW is just sad man it really is. Nothing but bad intentions of the players that do this.
I also urge you to consider something else than simply “you used a bad name go change it”. It is simply not sufficient punishment.
If you find it offensive you may report it and a GM may review the name.
For it to land on the Blizzard name block list it may have to pass certain internal criteria, but as you see:
They may still try something silly as this, with the actual forbidden names I sometimes see going around.
I can’t use my battle tag name as character name in wow, even though there’s nothing offensive about it. Yet I see rude names in game from time to time, Blizzard’s banned name list is very weird.
Multiple languages have words that mean something on another language lol, that Sika named npc in shadowlands literally translates to “pig” on my native in Finnish which is funny as the npc is an owl or some of the sort.
Its Dachau and its a placename in Germany. Maybe you need to take a break from the internet if placenames make you write a tldr like this. Would “Katy” be also denied to secure your insensitivies?
Katyn was a mass execution event perpetrated by the russians on 20.000 polish officers they captured during their invasion in the opening days of ww2.
The allies were so embarrassed by this they ordred it to be buried and not talked about. We cant have the allies supported mass murderers, can we.
Merely mentioning the russians here is enough to get this tread locked as blizzars wants nothing to do with hurting the feelings of those who pay them money. Kind of like what the USA did theo the public over there. Dont tell anybody since we need their help getting rid of the germans.
First the name of the concentration camp is Dachau not Dachou.
Second, there is a town in Germany called Dachau (it is near the area where the concentration camp was located). There is a district called Dachau where the town is the capital. There are vehicles with “Dachau” license plates there (I know that because I traveled to Germany several times for work and the company I was working with is located in the Dachau district). There are several thousand people living in that area.
We are having problems with the atrocities committed in the camp. The problem was NOT the name.
