There's a horrible thought. Once the horse decides the drink the water of the fountain of knowledge we're all screwed... The world will be overrun with super intelligent horse overlords.
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The essence of this thread is moot because FFXIV has more cursing coming from the npcs in it than I have seen in any MMO I have ever played.
But I'm glad you could feel important for 20+ pages of a thread
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And you're still going around the main point. You choose your name in this game. Yes, some cultures let you choose your name as well. But when you do that, it's something you use in real life, and you have to deal with that. In game it's different, if you can skirt the rules, or the rulemakers are lenient, you can hide behind the anonymity of the internet. Plus the game is open to almost everyone, not just cultures where they're used to choosing a name for themselves. And some, not all and not the majority either, will see that as an opportunity to be funny, harass, whatever you can think of really. And still, the rules are SEs, and there isn't free speech in game. Or on the forums for that matter. If you feel it's offensive, report it. If SE agrees, they do something, if they don't agree the name stays and you can leave or deal with it.
if its not a name thats degrading a person/race/gender i think its all amusing :S
Really, how so? Because he did mention the fact that people don't chose their own names. I simply replied with an example of how people do. Here is another, a friend of mine legally changed his last name not long ago. people can and do chose their own names.
I guess you have never done LL quests, their language can be considered offensive. If SE is going to use language that has the possibility of offending anyone, then we should be able to give our characters the names we want.