The reasons people use to report a name can be arbitrary, for example every time I see the name Ezekiel I cant help but repeat the numbers 25 and 17 in my head. Does that then give me justification to report the name due to it taking the immersion out of the game? No not really, cause that is petty and idiotic.
Reporting names which are obviously not real names in any shape or form, or which are straight up references to people/items out in real life or which have memes and crap in, then yes of course report.
Common sense, sadly is not so common. For example I can’t see the justification people have for reporting a name like ‘Mcmourning’. That seems like a genuine name, surname type of thing. Is it just out of spite people would report that person? Or have I missed the banter on this.
Anyway all of this is pretty much hyperbole, if you feel a name is not conforming to the RP rules of the server, then report. If you dont, then carry on.
This is purely subjective. In my opinion if Blizzard did want to distinguish RP servers, they would have implemented a race specific random name generator. This is how it’s done on PTR, though it’s an optional helping tool there. If mandatory, such name generator would establish a line which would prevent majority of non-roleplayers joining the server (having in mind names are arbitrary on normal/pvp servers) and would keep naming across the realm consistent (not to mention there would not be a need to report names at all).
There will always be players with these names because, well, they don’t care. All you can do is to report them. Some names I let be because it can pass as a nickname or such but “lolnoob” and “pwnu” are apparently only for “luls”, so, yeah, report and if there are enough the GM’s will have to take action. I also think not all of these players will stick around.
Alas, considering interpretations, those guidelines are far from being strict rules. Besides, Blizzard had been violating those on numerous occasions. Every second quest associated with goblin or gnome engineering breaks the first rule. The second one? Come on. Harrison Jones, Clarice Foster, Haris Pilton, Floyd Pinkus… Does it ring any bells? I am pretty sure the third one also has its own examples.
You’re really grasping at straws here to suggest that in-universe goblin or gnome naming conventions are somehow hypocritical / breaking naming rules (which suggests you don’t understand the wording in the Blizzard rules ?)
As for the Paris Hilton etc. references; the RP name rules applies to players and not dumb pop-culture reference NPC’s.
The simple solution is; if you want to name your character “poggersilovereddit” then go on any server that’s not RP i.e where the naming rules don’t apply.
I am just saying that those are written and implemented (if implemented at all) poorly and it’s a shame RP community has to refer to those in order to justify naming policy for the newcomers.
We just want people to name their characters like actual characters, not Xbox gamertags. It’s not rocket science. The naming policy does not apply to NPCs, even the normal naming rules don’t. You can find many NPCs with names that players aren’t allowed to have.
So the guys i reported 9 days ago (not just bad rp names, one guy on alliance side is litterally named “bearpussy” in swedish) and added to the friend list still has their names it seems like…
I remember when Blizzard cared about these things and responded quickly.
I reported a name that pretty much said Big Ol Dick, saw the player again recently, name got changed but it still said the same thing, he just added an ‘e’ to the name.
