Good morning all, a few days ago I was booted from the game with a popup saying “You have been banned from the game, please return when the block has ended” That was extreme news to me, so I got booted, relogged in, and found that my character by the name of “You Schmuck” was deemed an offensive name and I had to rename my character. This seemed pretty absurd to me, I use the name everywhere and this is my first time it’s ever been deemed offensive. I even used the exact same name in the betas.
So my first course of action was of course to ask support, after only a few hours wait, I got a reply saying NCSoft does not get into lengthy debates about why a name is deemed offensive, and that I should not pick an offensive name in the future, to which I replied to the ticket explaining pretty much everything about the name as possible, to prove it’s a normal name, not copyrighted, not offensive in a foreign language etc, has no alterior meaning behind it etc. Schmuck literally means, fool/doofus etc. I quite literally use it for the purpose of people replying to me calling me “You Schmuck” I like the quirkiness of it :P
I then got my final reply saying it was not Anet/NCSoft, but a USER reporting it as offensive, so if this is all it takes to get your name banned without any possible review, what’s stopping me from reporting any other player’s name and having a GM skim my report and banning their name?
This is pretty much my last ditch attempt at trying to recover this name for my character, which is currently called Schmuckie (Schmucky) was taken.
Can a GM please see some common sense and look up the definition of Schmuck without pointing me to the naming rules, with which my original name did not fall under any restrictions. I was known on Desolation as “You Schmuck” and I would very much like to stay that way, pretty much everyone I know liked the name and it’s weirdness. For it to be so suddenly taken away by one player who probably wasn’t even offended by it in the first place seems ridiculous.
So in concluding. GMs, please have a heart
PS: Origin of my name: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Hbt8gbZlTeU#t=60s
Ticket Number: [Incident: 130322-000912]
