The reason why you’ve gone so long before it got changed is because unlike character names, account names are seen a lot less often – usually only through Guild or Friends List rosters. Or this forum, which I suspect in your case is where your account name got noticed.
I’m sure some of your friends found it hilarious when you mention that some people liked it, but had it been a character name, you would have got reported by someone a lot sooner in-game, because it’s not a nice or clever name to have.
That said, look on the bright side. People have received 3 day bans in the past for less offensive names – so be grateful it was only a forced name change.
True enough, I should be grateful for not getting slapped with a ban.
Sorry, a slang word for an female sexual body part is more than suggestive, it’s against TOS. They already have said they don’t allow names that reference sexual body parts, slang or not. They aren’t going to let you change it back.
So in a game where I can commit animal cruelty for achievement points this is unacceptable? It wasn’t against the ToS when I created the account, ToS at the time pretty much only covered genuinely hateful names such as ethic-cleansing, racial slurs .Besides anyone can get offended over anything, someone somewhere is going to get offended. I’m pretty sure theres a number of homophobes(lot of those here in North America) out there that completely lost it when the main story featured a lesbian romance.
But hey these things do change, so I’ll made it squeaky clean if they give me the chance.
I especially love the Wikipedia link, because apparently we’re expected to believe he was “hunting” … a novel? People with that last name?
Seriously, grow up. We all knew what you meant.
Please read posts before playing hero. I admitting it was suggestive from the get-go. Keyword being suggestive, not offensive. I’ll just file a ticket since theres only forum trolls here.
Pretty sure he knew what it was. He’s just irritated because he got away with it for so long before being caught.
Guild Wars 2 Naming Policy
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
Getting caught? What exactly was I hiding from? When I created the name alot of people had such names and nobody had a problem with it, apparently people are more thin-skinned now than 2 years ago.
Well to be honest, at the time gamers weren’t all that impressed by Dx10 and had a worse opinion on Vista.
True enough, and now windows 10(which directX12 will be exclusive to) has it’s own slew of issues. Worse yet Microsoft is planning to charge a subscription instead of a flat charge. That combined with the technical challenge of implementing DirectX12 into existing architecture its rather unlikely GW2 will be seeing DirectX12 in the near future.
I mean it would be really cool to actually pull 60FPS in WvW zerg fights with high-end hardware and would solve most of the performance issues the game has. I’m using the Windows 10 Beta and the thing has a very Alpha feel to it. I have no idea on why they plan on releasing it this summer considering how unstable the operating system is.
My account name was randomly changed, I’ve had the account name kitten hunter for well over a year and needless to say the word filter in-game had no problem with it aswell. One forum post and then someone mashes the report button? I mean really? Did someone seriously get offended? Most people LIKED my username, I’ve yet to see anyone get offended over it even if you take it in pop culture context. Not even a swear word, yeah it’s suggestive but quite frankly its cleaner than slaughtering helpless ambient creatures for achievement points.
Admins if you won’t change it back at least let me get to choose my account name like I got to do when I purchased this game.
Edit: Jeeze, they added p%o0.n to the word filter. If it’s really so bad as to warrant a update the entire filter just give me one freebie name change.
“Only options are to overclock, buy into Intel, or lower in game settings and deal with 30FPS~”
Pretty much this ^
One thing you can do is elevate the GW2 process in task manager but that still won’t net the results you’re hoping for with the limitations of DirectX9. Alternately you could wait for either Zen to be released or wait Anet to implement DirectX12, which probably won’t happen considering DirectX10 was available at the time they were coding GW2. They made an official statement saying they “wanted to appeal to a larger audience”.
GW2 is the only game I’ve noticed a real world difference between my old FX-8350 and my i5-4690k. Every other game I honestly can’t tell the difference. I get roughly 50-70 FPS with my R9 290, i5-4690k, and 16gb of 1866 ddr3 ram running around most area at max. With my old 2 GTX 660s SLI and FX-8350 setup I was getting below 50 in dungeon instances with near max settings.
This is getting tedious, you’d think they would have a test server or something. Play an x amount of time on test server and get some kind of volunteer buff/reward item/achievement. Hand out rewards to bug finders and stuff.
As it currently stands huge bugs like doing a world boss then getting slapped with a DC, rollback, and a random map teleport is a serious problem. It seems that every other patch something rather huge breaks and plagues the game .
Trion implemented a test server to avoid problems like this(which Trion somehow managed to screw up), I would expect Anet to implement something like this considering Anet is a competent company that makes an genuine attempt to create a decent game. Unlike Trion who are baboons in human clothing.
