Guild Wars 2

I have a character named Gordon J Ramsay. Spent a lot of time trying to make him look like the real Gordon Ramsay. So I was wandering around, doing some events, and started having conversations with people until some people brought up that you can get a 72 hr ban for having the name of a real person and being forced to change it. I’ve had this character since August 24th at 9pm PST, though I haven’t played much of him.

They also said that it’s only names that can be used in offensive ways, like naming yourself Mitt Romney or something and trying to impersonate them in a negative way.

I was just wondering if it’s true, because if it is, I’d like to request a name change right away, as my intentions were never to break any ToC or rules by having one of my characters named after my idol.

I wouldn’t be surprised if there is such a ruling in place for real life people that are famous.

I remember in SWTOR, I had a jedi knight called Glow-Stick. Quite humorous, I was sad when I was forced to name change.

We do not permit names that:

• Have offensive racial, ethnic, or national connotations.
• Include hate speech or bigoted slurs
• Reference sexual acts or real life violence.
• Are pornographic.
• Make inappropriate references to human anatomy or bodily functions.
• Reference illegal drugs or activities.
• Reference religious or historical figures.
• Reference real-life people.
• Reference names of copyrighted or trademarked characters, materials, or products.
• Use misspellings or alternative spellings of names that violate any of the above rules.

’Nuff said.