Guild Wars 2

Whether you feel someone was offended or not, the staff considered your names, and found them inappropriate. You can wait for an official response in this thread, but it might be awhile, as Gaile is on vacation.

Good luck. =)

Sometimes mistakes are made and they reverse the decision. If you haven’t put in a support ticket to ask about it, you might want to do so.

Darek.1836:

I have been using the name “Moobs” on gw for most (6 of of my characters and because some people who disliked my guild and reported me for no reason, yesterday I was prompted to change all of the character names.
Characters were these: Mr Moobs, Andromooba, Xr Moobs, Moobs the Viscous, Hundred Moobs
If someone would have actually been offended I might accept this forced name change. However since in 6 months and literally not a single sole I’ve run with (I’m a commander and popular person in WvW) has ever been upset with name, I don’t think this is fair at all. Since I reported this as a Ticket and to no surprise, the reply was that they stuck by the decision (as always, I do read these forums). So I’m here ro ask you and hopefully gf a response by ANet, is there really anything offensive with this name? Keep in mind with what I said, NO ONE was EVER upset with this name.

The names are sort of marginal. Any company is going to be conservative in its decisions in this sort of thing. Once someone reports it and it appears to violate TOS, no matter how mildly, then it will be banned. It’s not like ANet knows whether the people are reporting it have a history with you or not. All they have are report(s) that say offensive name. Since the name violates TOS by referring to “sensitive” parts of human anatomy, that’s all it takes. And the names do violate TOS. Think of it like the law. Either it is broken or it is not. Either TOS is violated or it is not.

Hi Darek,

First off all lemme explain how the system works. If someone is offended by your name they have the right to report it. You obviously offended someone. I would strongly advise you to not judge the person(s) motives. People have the right to be offended and the right to report you.

A report doesn’t result in a suspension and you can only guess for the motives. So better to asume someone was offended and didnt had other reason for reporting you. The suspension however is done cause an Arenanet GM reviewed the report and agreed to the fact that it is an offensive term.

Now if you disagree with the decission made by the GM you have the right to call for an appeal. First thing is to file a support ticket here:
https://en.support.guildwars2.com/ (ask a question)

If the outcome is still negative you can ask an arenanet official in here to make judgement.

Again I strongly advise you to leave your personal judgement of the motives of the reporter(s) out of it.

Now to wether or not it is offensive or not. I had to look the term up on urban dictionary. It means if I’m correct the chest of a man, often used if it is of significant size simular to the chest of a grown up woman.

I think this is on the edge atleast.
you can say that in most cultures it is accepted that a man is dressed half naked (if the weather and location is apropiate, eg. a beach) showing the body part described by the term. So that works in your defense.

On the other hand, the fact that the term is used when the size is significant works against you cause in most cultures that is considered ugly and even disgusting.

Bottomline is that it is on the edge and even when the appeal works out in your advantage, it still is a risk cause a new report can be viewed by another GM and you could get prompted again.

As I understand you where only prompted to change the name and not suspended. The normal punishment for this is a forced name change and a 72 hour suspension. So it looks like that the GM in question did see it was an on the edge situation and decided to go for the middle ground by forcing a name change and not giving you a suspension or an accountmark for breaking the rules.

Maybe take it as it is??

Darek.1836:

I have been using the name “Moobs” on gw for most (6 of of my characters and because some people who disliked my guild and reported me for no reason, yesterday I was prompted to change all of the character names.
Characters were these: Mr Moobs, Andromooba, Xr Moobs, Moobs the Viscous, Hundred Moobs
If someone would have actually been offended I might accept this forced name change. However since in 6 months and literally not a single sole I’ve run with (I’m a commander and popular person in WvW) has ever been upset with name, I don’t think this is fair at all. Since I reported this as a Ticket and to no surprise, the reply was that they stuck by the decision (as always, I do read these forums). So I’m here ro ask you and hopefully gf a response by ANet, is there really anything offensive with this name? Keep in mind with what I said, NO ONE was EVER upset with this name.

While I do not find it offensive at all, it is a slang word for male breasts, so “technically” I guess it could violate the naming policy.

I believe I said that I already made a ticket and they didn’t revert anything. Again no surprise since this is indeed on edge and one GM won’t be overturning another GM.

Darek.1836:

I have been using the name “Moobs” on gw for most (6 of of my characters and because some people who disliked my guild and reported me for no reason, yesterday I was prompted to change all of the character names.
Characters were these: Mr Moobs, Andromooba, Xr Moobs, Moobs the Viscous, Hundred Moobs
If someone would have actually been offended I might accept this forced name change. However since in 6 months and literally not a single sole I’ve run with (I’m a commander and popular person in WvW) has ever been upset with name, I don’t think this is fair at all. Since I reported this as a Ticket and to no surprise, the reply was that they stuck by the decision (as always, I do read these forums). So I’m here ro ask you and hopefully gf a response by ANet, is there really anything offensive with this name? Keep in mind with what I said, NO ONE was EVER upset with this name.

You mention your guild name and say people might be offended by that – but you don’t share that on here. Let the public jury decide if your guild name “Reich” (with the tag [SS]) is offensive. If that’s not offensive, then why would anyone have a problem with you? Why would people report your character name Moobs (which can mean “Man Boobs”) as offensive if it’s your guild name that is offensive and not your character name?

Maybe not offensive, but it’s silly and annoying. Why “moobs” in a fantasy MMO anyway? Can’t you save that for other places like COD of BF3 where immaturity rules? Your name spoils the “immersion” factor. What’s the point of a “living world” and lore when I turn the corner and up pops someone called “Mr Moobs”. More of this banning. WoW was spoiled because of people like you..

Oh and I like novelty and humorous names too: my Sylvari is called “Prunemi” (prune me). What’s wrong with doing something like that instead of pointless vulgar stuff only a 5 year old would find funny?

Falafal.9135:

……instead of pointless vulgar stuff only a 5 year old would find funny?

Tell that to the GW2 staff that came up with Poobadoo – surely pointless vulgar stuff only 5 years find that funny too?

And according to their own naming policy: “Make inappropriate references to human anatomy or bodily functions”

Poo and doo = references to bodily functions.

Double standards anyone?

ShadyNZL.9018:

Falafal.9135:

……instead of pointless vulgar stuff only a 5 year old would find funny?

Tell that to the GW2 staff that came up with Poobadoo – surely pointless vulgar stuff only 5 years find that funny too?

And according to their own naming policy: “Make inappropriate references to human anatomy or bodily functions”

Poo and doo = references to bodily functions.

Double standards anyone?

Is also much more likely that that didn’t register on whoever named him. The first time you brought this up (and you have brought it up several times in several threads) I had to think about it. Read it as being pronounced as, Poob Adoo.

You have to realize that they were naming hundreds if not thousands of NPCs. It’s not astonishing that a name could be innocently made that might be marginal. It’s one of those names though, you have to be looking for offense to find offense.

Considering how Quaggan names have a lot of double O’s in their names and speech. It fits in with their naming convention. I doubt the namer gave it a lot of thought. The namer had a list of NPCs that needed a name. Got to this NPC, as yet unnamed. Convention for this Quaggan name says needs with double O’s, one was made up, on to the next name.