Guild Wars 2

Would the character name, Heimerdinger, become a problem?

I’m pretty sure it isn’t copyrighted, and I’d love to make an Asura Engineer with the name.

Thanks!

You don’t get a 72 hour ban the first time unless the name is obviously bad. It’s only the repeat offenders and the people who make names obviously against TOS who get the 72 hour ban. Otherwise, names that are marginal, the first time you will get a message telling you that you need to rename that toon before you can log on.

http://ncsoft.com/uk/legal/user-agreements/guild-wars-2-rules-of-conduct.php
You may not create character names or otherwise transmit, post, link to or facilitate the distribution of any sexually explicit, harmful, threatening, abusive, defamatory, infringing, obscene, hateful, vulgar, racially or ethnically offensive, invasive of personal privacy or publicity rights, or objectionable in a reasonable person’s view imagery or content.

Follow these rules and you will be alright. If in any doubt, google the name to make sure it doesn’t have a meaning you don’t know about.

They forced me (after 8 months wihtout any problems) to rename my char from “nippeltiger” to something else. I told myself, OK, maybe the pope saw my name and felt giggedy, so I’ll go along and use my usual old name for chars that I never had a problem with in 10 years of MMO history, “Nipp Graviton”. 48 hours later they ban me for 72hours.
So make sure to google your potential names, because their namecheck in the character creation loves bananas and they are also lazy as fluffy to inform you about what the problem was in the first place.

We’ve hit a misunderstanding, Heimerdinger is the name of an engineering based character in the game, League of Legends, it’s not at all meant to be sexual.

Nippeltiger.1735:

They forced me (after 8 months wihtout any problems) to rename my char from “nippeltiger” to something else. I told myself, OK, maybe the pope saw my name and felt giggedy, so I’ll go along and use my usual old name for chars that I never had a problem with in 10 years of MMO history, “Nipp Graviton”. 48 hours later they ban me for 72hours.
So make sure to google your potential names, because their namecheck in the character creation loves bananas and they are also lazy as fluffy to inform you about what the problem was in the first place.

Nippeltiger is close to Nippletiger, the word nipple triggered the renaming. Nip is an racial insult for Japanese people. The 72 hour ban is because you got the first renaming and then you made another name, however innocently, that was a racial insult. They consider names that are “creatively spelled” as trying to get around TOS.

Edit: I googled the German word nippel. It said the translation for it was nipple. So you attempted to deliberately get around the censors and got caught. No reason for you to act innocent here.

boyasow.1560:

We’ve hit a misunderstanding, Heimerdinger is the name of an engineering based character in the game, League of Legends, it’s not at all meant to be sexual.

I don’t think anyone said it was sexual. ^^ However there is a high probability that it is copywrited. If it is and someone reports it, you will have to rename. If you really, really, want that name then maybe you can contact that company and ask if its copywrited and if there is a problem with using it in a video game. Be aware, that even if the company did say it was alright for you to use, for legal reasons you still may be be forced into a renaming one day. Lawyers don’t like possible lawsuits.

Astral Projections.7320:

Nippeltiger is close to Nippletiger, the word nipple triggered the renaming.

Translated they mean the same thing.

JustTrogdor.7892:

Astral Projections.7320:

Nippeltiger is close to Nippletiger, the word nipple triggered the renaming.

Translated they mean the same thing.

Yeah, he is playing Mr. Innocent. I saw his other thread after this one. He got caught and now he is full of outrage. Lol.

Got banned for having ‘drug’ in my name.
Time to wait it out with, ugh, real life activities.

We do not permit names that:

• Have offensive racial, ethnic, national, or cultural 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

Astral Projections.7320:

Nip is an racial insult for Japanese people

Proof please.
I don’t believe you.
Also no Japanese person would find that offensive, however would find it hilarious that you’d try with such a lame insult.

Loli Ruri.8307:

Astral Projections.7320:

Nip is an racial insult for Japanese people

Proof please.
I don’t believe you.
Also no Japanese person would find that offensive, however would find it hilarious that you’d try with such a lame insult.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_slurs#N
It’s originally from the name of the country, Nippon (Japan).

The term is designated as offensive, regardless of its age. Whether or not it still has the power to be truly insulting, for legal reasons it has to be banned. If someone was using it freely and ANet did not take action against them, then the company would be open to a lawsuit by anyone who cared to press the issue, and hopefully make a little money for themselves or get attention. I agree that the term is old and has lost it’s insulting power. But someone who decides to be insulted and to sue, would have a good chance of winning the suit if the word was not banned.

The name was banned mostly because of the legal consequences if it was not.

Edit: while the word is now old, there are people yet living who remember the word when it was not old and when it was insulting. Just because it is not insulting to you, your friends, or to younger Japanese people does not mean that it would not hurt those people who remember the word when it did have power to hurt, to see it freely used in public.

Astral Projections.7320:

-snip-

“(US and UK) someone of Japanese descent (shortened version of Nipponese, from Japanese name for Japan, Nippon)”

Um, nowhere in that wiki article does it explain how Nip is offensive. The nick was probably removed cause of a close resemblance in wording to a part of human anatomy.

Loli Ruri.8307:

Astral Projections.7320:

-snip-

“(US and UK) someone of Japanese descent (shortened version of Nipponese, from Japanese name for Japan, Nippon)”

Um, nowhere in that wiki article does it explain how Nip is offensive. The nick was probably removed cause of a close resemblance in wording to a part of human anatomy.

It is absolutely used as a slur, whether you believe it or not. I don’t know how old you are or where you live, but I’m certainly old enough to have heard people use it as a slur. Also the name of the article is “List of ethnic slurs”.

“Dinger” has various connotations. Do a google search for

urban dictionary dinger

It wouldn’t offend me but others might report you.

Can’t see what could possibly be wrong with it. There’s real life people with Heimerdinger as a last name as well as various companies with it in their name. No different than Smith or Jones, it’s just a name.