Dear Devs: Please make another pass at restricting offensive names

[Aelin_Ashryver]

Those names don't even seem that bad tbh, they're not racial slurs or anything.

[Bukachu]

Jesus christ how do some of you survive on your own in real world

[Sebazy]

News at 10, guy with bad pun name gets offended at others with equally bad pun names.

In other news, it's rainin sideways

[Doki]

I think a name that is a sound effect of a heartbeat is a bit different than "Aborted Fetus" unless there's a pun in there somewhere I'm missing.

I can say that reporting a name does sometimes work... except, they'll handle the specific name on the specific server you report, and then not bother to go ahead and do a scrape of other instances of the same name. Why does this sort of thing have to fall entirely on user reports? I feel like everything bad in the game, the devs are like "go say something on the forums about it" as a catch all for things that in all honesty they should just be addressing themselves.

[Shibi]

I think a name that is a sound effect of a heartbeat

It's not really a 擬声語 / 擬情語 is it though? ドキドキ is correct and わくわく is correct but ドキわく doesn't become "excited heartbeat" - it's likely more accurate as something like "Time Slot". The Nine O'Clock News, so to say.

I can say that reporting a name does sometimes work... except, they'll handle the specific name on the specific server you report, and then not bother to go ahead and do a scrape of other instances of the same name..

Yep, it works, see bad name, report bad name, GM makes a decision on *that* active person.

GM's are human, and doing it this way allows the affected player to dispute the action with another GM on their next login. If they've been seen in world, then it's a given they are an active player and this dispute can happen while it's fresh.

If they do a global change, someone might not log in for 10 years, and it's too hard to dispute then, all the details and the GM in question are likely long gone.


The advice; "if you don't want to be offended don't specifically search it out" applies here. It's a bit like a gay guy searching photos of beavers and then going "ewww".

[Jagick]

If people want to report and remove names created by those that are mentally deficient I am all for it. Would you rather the game turn into the rotting cesspool that WoW is? Keep reporting people. Do it all day every day if it keeps this type of scum out of the game.

That collapse of WoW had absolutely nothing to do with offensive names or people trash talking each other in a competitive environment. On the contrary, those days were among its most profitable and most lively. It was the king of the hill. Look at it now though after it has been sterilized, casualized, and writers who do not care for the lore and only their head canons have taken over writing the story.

This sort of mentality will not help FFXIV. You think you are saving the game, making it cleaner, safer. What you're actually doing is poisoning it and stripping it of any humanity out of some misplaced sense of righteousness. The player-base didn't kill WoW. Blizzard killed WoW with a very slow death of constant mismanagement and overreaching.

[Doki]

I guess I'm just getting old. It seriously astounds me that anyone would defend this, unless you're taking devil's advocate just because.

[Seera1024]

I guess I'm just getting old. It seriously astounds me that anyone would defend this, unless you're taking devil's advocate just because.

No one's defending it. They're just saying report them as you see them in game. Don't go on the lodestone and hunt them down.

Because here's the situation:

1. Could be permabanned for a reason other than their name and since they can't log in to change their name, they'll stay on the lodestone.

2. Inactive because they got bored with the game and the name will remain as such on the lodestone because they obviously can't change the name if they aren't even subbed and the player has no intention of returning.

[Lihtleita]

is it just the word fetus or the way its used? for example aborted fetus versus funky fetus

also whats your stance on the word embryo?

[Evergrey]

Not sure about others, but I think there's a difference between offensive names and names that someone finds offensive.
Like, Offensive names that, as an example, contain some kind of rasist slure is offensive to a broader audience no doubt.
But then there are people who can find things offensive to them and then try to get it removed because they get offended, and maybe even perhaps offended for others, where it might actually not be offensive to others.

I'd say, just report when you see it ingame and don't try start a witchhunt.
Those often tend to backfire and just make "you" look bad instead.