So I got a 71 hours account suspension because some people get offended by non-offensive character names.
The pop-up message comes with fancy links to the Naming Policies and other related stuff. Now I do agree the names of my characters may fall into what is considered “legally reportable” according to the policies. Fine, on paper I broke the law.
However, none of my character names are actually offensive in any way. No one on earth should be offended by that and it saddens me to think that people are either offended badly enough that they cannot control themselves and feel the need to report it, or they simply report any name that could potentially get banned according to the Naming Policies, just for the sake of banning people.
This situation is not worthy of a 71 hours suspension, I know it, you know it, everybody knows it. I have absolutely no problem changing my character names to something boring and unoriginal to follow the Naming Policies and to please the narrow minded and/or griefers playing the game while I can’t.
Nothing can stop griefers since I’m pretty sure reporting is anonymous, and giving them the benefit of the doubt we all have to assume they are just easily offended people who will never get the help they need to solve their issues with insecurity and/or anxiety when faced with everyday life words in a video game.
I’m gonna spend my only two days off thinking about flowers, medieval knights, soft and passive feline animals, oddly pronounced Scandinavian references, and Stitch from Lilo & Stitch since pretty much anything too far from that will inevitably come with the risk of getting suspended again. (Edit: actually I bet Stitch is reportable as well since it must be copyrighted or something.)
PS: It would only make sense if we could just change character names on the first offense since that’s the real problem and THEN if that comes up AGAIN a suspension is well deserved.
