Guild Wars 2

Sojourner.4621:

The filter can be turned off.

Don’t people read or do they just troll.

My point is being lost in the discussions.

I KNOW THE FILTER CAN BE TURNED OFF… NO ONE should have to adjust their filters to permit a NPC NAME.

My intent was to bring this to the attention of the developers. THE NAME IS INAPPROPRIATE BY GW2 STANDARDS. Translated, the name FION is A## HOLE.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Did you discuss the anomaly with the CS Team? What did they have to say?

As I stated in the OP, I submitted a ticket and was told to post my “suggestion” here.
The following is their generic reply to my ticket:

Thanks a lot for taking the time to explain the meaning of an NPC’s name in Guild Wars 2. We have found that the best way for the development team to gather and review player feedback and suggestions is through our official forums. We ask players to post their ideas in our Official Forums: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum

Please post your suggestion in the forum most relevant to the subject at hand. For instance, if you are writing about PvP, post in the PvP sub-forum. If you are making a suggestion about a specific profession, please post in that profession’s sub-forum. And if you are writing about the Living World, feel free to post in that sub-forum.

Members of the Development Team read the forums daily, and while they usually cannot respond to individual suggestions, the fact that team members can review those suggestions in a public forum helps them gauge the level of interest in a particular idea, and also allows other players to discuss and offer feedback of their own.

The team looks forward to reviewing your input.

WHY BOTHER!!?? Its clear that this is a mute point; they really don’t care and have double standards. Albeit, I don’t believe this was intentional. As I have stated in the OP, and others have commented, some truly inoffensive names are deemed inappropriate when creating characters and yet here is a NPC name that the game filters as such. AND, CAN BE CLEARLY OFFENSIVE (to some) when translated.

Odd fact. Fionn (with 2 "n"s) or Fiona are the “proper” use of the name and translate to “Fair, White” or “Vine”

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

You know, I just went in-game and typed Fion and fion into chat. Showed up just fine.

I’m not sure what the issue is. Maybe adjust your filters for that NPC?

One shouldn’t have to adjust filters to allow for an in-game NPC name. Sure, if I adjust filters it will “Show up just fine” as one other reply to this post recommended (as a work around). Albeit, according to Google Translate and in-game filters it is inappropriate. Therein lies the problem. An NPC name should not be Filtered PERIOD. If the game considers it inappropriate… ITS INAPPROPRIATE. Not my doing, not my choice. Hell, I didn’t event know it was an issue until the game filtered it.

Rhiannon.1726:

You can’t look at foreign names and try to find words from other languages in it. It wont end well

I wasn’t looking to start trouble. I speak one language, English. I only discovered the irony in the name Fion, when it was filtered by the game. Point being, if the game filters the name, perhaps the npc should not be named Fion.

starlinvf.1358:

KarmaKrash.5931:

You are all missing the point. I tried to tell a fellow guild member WHO to turn in the Teq tailpieces… and the GAME filtered the NPCs name.

We all understand perfectly…. and we all agree its dumb. So all thats left to do is talk about the idiosyncrasy of language that caused the problem in the first place.

I need to be quicker on my edits. Yes, I realize what everyone is doing. And I agree with you that language is the problem per se.

Doggie.3184:

I googled Fion and all the results were a popular Wine Bar Company in the US. I guess you should send them complaints as well since they have street signs.

Also this game is in English so it’s not using French words. People complained before cus of a name that meant something else in Spanish, but it’s not in Spanish so it doesn’t matter. Complaint amounted to nothing.

You are missing the point. I tried to tell a fellow guild member he needed to turn the Teq tailpieces into Fion… and the GAME filtered the NPCs name. “Complaint amounted to nothing.” Just shows how narrow minded you can be. When the game filters an NPC name it is problem. Otherwise, I could care less.

I find it ironic, while creating a new character certain names are “filtered” or prohibited due to possible profane or obscene content (IE “Honeysuckle Rose”, a name the wife was going to use for a Sylvari) and yet there is an NPC in Gilded Hollow named Fion in the Guild Hall…
In my 6+ months playing, I never knew this was a problem until I tried to tell a fellow guild member where to turn in his 26 Teq tailpieces and my messages were filtered. I was dumbfounded to say the least.
You may ask, “Where am I going with this?” Well, it turns out Fion, is French for an inappropriate English word; hence the reason all my in-game guild and private tells were filtered. And hence, the reason its translation is also filtered on this forum.
I submitted a Ticket in reference to this impropriety and was told to post my “idea” in our Official Forums; so here I am. Just Google translate “Fion”.

Currently the Commander Name/Tag blends in with the player/character name text in squads. I’ve been on missions where the party was on three different instances. And, since the Commander isn’t given precedence when the names are listed, nor is the list in any particular order (i.e. not alphabetical) it is sometimes difficult to locate the commander of the party to join them on said instance.

An apparent simple solution would be to add a color code to either the Commander’s name/tag so it would stand out in the list.