crepuscular.9047 Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 (edited) create a new toon dedicated to fishing, "M A G I K A R P I T" contains character combination not permitted 🤨❓ okkay... maybe because it sniffed copyright? let's try M A G I C F I S H Y"... surely it follows the Guild Wars 2 Naming Policy Quote "When creating a Guild Wars 2 display, character, guild, or pet name, you are encouraged to select a name that reflects the theme of the game." ....... NOPE! huh?!?!?!? what is it it doesn't like??? 😬 *** A FEW MOMENTS LATER *** "M A G" contains character combination not permitted...... really Anet⁉️ 😒 I know that most worlds on NA WvW hates Maguuma, but did you have to ban the use of "M A G" in every word that contains it?you are literally banning the words you are encouraging people to use like MAGIC, MAGE, MAGI, etc. please please remove the restriction, not only it does not make sense to have a blanket ban, players are also losing out on the thousands of opportunities to create a desirable character names PS: imaging the business opportunities you can generate from selling character slots, especially when it's on discount right now Edited September 25, 2022 by crepuscular.9047 1 1 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gehenna.3625 Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 (edited) I just created a character named Magalee Magpie. It was accepted. Edit: I also tried M A G Alee. That didn't work. Then I tried Ma G Alee. That also didn't work. So there's something about the spaces in between that makes it something they don't accept. But writing it together definitely worked. So it's not the combination of mag by itself but with the spaces between it that causes it to be inappropriate somehow. Edited September 25, 2022 by Gehenna.3625 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanAlcedo.3281 Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 Did you try to have spaces between each letter? I think that should not work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gehenna.3625 Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 (edited) Well I tried more combinations, they're weird names but just for testing: Down A Hole - worked (to check if a single letter would work) Room A Gentry - worked even though it as m A G consecutively in it Ma Gold Is Gone - worked though it contains Ma G V L A - is already in use, so that's accepted even though it has 3 consecutive separate letters M Age Of Mages - worked though it contains M Ag Ma G - is not permitted In conclusion: M A G is not permitted and Ma G isn't permitted. Anything else with that letter combination works. Edit: it gets weirder still. Just on a hunch I tried "Ma God" - it was accepted ... So the new conclusion is that you can't put Ma or M A before a single letter G. Edited September 25, 2022 by Gehenna.3625 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schimmi.6872 Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 I tried some other combinations and it seems only the single letter G is the problem here, guess it's part of the naming rules against GM impersonators. 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Funky.4861 Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 I think it's more to do with pre-banning all the MAGA names because we can't have that, can we... 3 1 4 14 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gehenna.3625 Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 43 minutes ago, Schimmi.6872 said: I tried some other combinations and it seems only the single letter G is the problem here, guess it's part of the naming rules against GM impersonators. Hmmm, that does make sense actually. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AgentMoore.9453 Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 7 minutes ago, Funky.4861 said: I think it's more to do with pre-banning all the MAGA names because we can't have that, can we... That would be very ironic, given that they use that awful slogan in some of their achievement text. If I had to guess, I'd say it's more likely the GM name prevention that others have mentioned, since that's been implemented since launch and I've seen some surprising things make it past the filter since then. I'd be curious to know how often it gets updated - if ever. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zephire.8049 Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 8 hours ago, Schimmi.6872 said: I tried some other combinations and it seems only the single letter G is the problem here, guess it's part of the naming rules against GM impersonators. This is it. Standalone G (and maybe standalone M) are not allowed because of people impersonating GMs, particularly in other games when GW2 was in development. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knote.2904 Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 Then why not just have a regex scrub anything with just GM why G? lmao /^GM .*/i 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doggie.3184 Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 Make Maguuma Great Again (even though it's always been great). 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kulvar.1239 Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 5 minutes ago, Doggie.3184 said: Make Maguuma Great Again (even though it's always been great). It's "Make Ascalon Great Again". 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zephire.8049 Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 1 hour ago, Knote.2904 said: Then why not just have a regex scrub anything with just GM why G? lmao /^GM .*/i Because scammers/phishers are resourceful and would find a way to get around that sort of thing, just like they have in other games. It's a shotgun approach, yes, but it does what it's meant to which is to reduce the number of people scammed by fake GMs and to reduce the load on support staff as they don't need to deal with a mountain of tickets from people who were scammed. The number of people inconvenienced by G not being allowed as a standalone character name letter is less than the people—including children—such a rule would have saved from being scammed. And it's an MMO. Being told a name isn't available and to pick something else is par for the course and shouldn't be a surprise to anyone used to MMOs or social media regardless of what restrictions on names exist. Sometimes you're told something isn't available and that's that, especially with meme-y names. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoftFootpaws.9134 Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 (edited) 10 hours ago, Funky.4861 said: I think it's more to do with pre-banning all the MAGA names because we can't have that, can we... There's been a MAGA guild literally run by Donald Trump on Fort Aspenwood forever. This forum sure is full of conspiracy theories lately. It makes me worry for the mental health of some of its posters, how they can seem to see demons in everything. Especially after End of Dragons. @ Thread: This is caused by the way GM is written in different languages, because this game only allows Latin characters for the most part but the syntactical rules of non-English languages often still apply. For example Game Master would usually be written like "Master of Game" (MG, sometimes with letters inbetween). "Ma" is an abbreviation for Master or the literal translation of Master (Maestro for Spanish). This is actually the norm, English is the language thats backwards in alot of ways, since its hodgepodged from many other languages and tries to shorthand everything even when its unnecessary. Edited September 25, 2022 by Mariyuuna.6508 2 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hashberry.4510 Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 Magical And Grrrreat Ascalon 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knote.2904 Posted September 26, 2022 Share Posted September 26, 2022 4 hours ago, Zephire.8049 said: Because scammers/phishers are resourceful and would find a way to get around that sort of thing, just like they have in other games. It's a shotgun approach, yes, but it does what it's meant to which is to reduce the number of people scammed by fake GMs and to reduce the load on support staff as they don't need to deal with a mountain of tickets from people who were scammed. The number of people inconvenienced by G not being allowed as a standalone character name letter is less than the people—including children—such a rule would have saved from being scammed. And it's an MMO. Being told a name isn't available and to pick something else is par for the course and shouldn't be a surprise to anyone used to MMOs or social media regardless of what restrictions on names exist. Sometimes you're told something isn't available and that's that, especially with meme-y names. Not sure what you mean exactly. In this case it just seems like it matches G + space instead of just GM, people could still put alt characters for the G as it is? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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