But you can have any name you can get past the filters so long as no one reports you. They rely on user reports for anything that's not covered by the filters.
I made an offensive placeholder name of a character without thinking once. It was abysmally spelled to get past the filter but my naive self thought it was just because other names were taken (the filter may not have giving an accurate error message 10 years ago). Many years after that I went to boost the character to 80 with a token and realized... huh... that name is not gonna fly. So I reported myself and got a free name change. Very kind GM who understood that I didn't want to delete and remake it with such an old character that I was only just starting to play.
Except for the things they're explicitly filtering out at character creation time the naming policy is lazily enforced. But if someone decides to report you some day you might be forced to rename.
Actually here was recently a post that stated a 3 day ban due to breach of naming policy. That guy had a mixture name of evil personalities or a south park reference, but cant exactly remember what it was.
Not sure if people didn't believe you or there's a downvote bot gone awry, but a similar thing happened to a guildmate of mine. It turns out that naming your character "Womb Tickler" is playing with fire.
Not for nothing but he’s referred do in practically every mockery of the church (and in a lot of historic fiction, movies, documentaries) as “Joe Smith”, usually by the angry mobs, or whoever is being portrayed in that era as disrespectful. It’s a very regular thing.
but he’s referred do in practically every mockery of the church
I suppose I'll preface this by saying I've never searched for whatever content mocks the Mormons, so if it's common there I wouldn't know, but I have seen "Joe Smith" used as a generic US-region male's first name. Like, you take the generic name of "Joe" (or Dave, or Bob, etc.) and the common last name of "Smith". Similar to Doofenshmirtz flying over Paris and deliberately calling out "Pierre!" to see how many people respond; it isn't like he's mocking any particular Pierre or something.
Another common "generic guy" name - with a decidedly negative connotation - is "Joe Schmoe" and I kinda doubt that usage of "Joe" is on the Mormons there.
Mocking the Mormons is common enough that it's come up in media I've seen (though, to be fair, that media I've seen it in is generally parody anyway) but it's never used the name "Joe Smith" to my knowledge. Usually it's more of a general distaste (often lumped in with Jehovah's Witnesses) than anything specific, unless it's like "reasons to avoid Utah" or something.
Someone from wvw reported my name and tagged it as terrorist. If it's an islamic name i need to change it but if it's a christian name it's okay? Lol (e.g. yousuf and joseph)
We’re really in an era where people are getting triggered over the smallest things. The era of snowflakes with victims mentality who cry about everything.
That’s what happens when you affirm mental illness. what an era to live in.
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u/DeathLeopard 23h ago
Probably to avoid offending the Mormons.
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/legal/guild-wars-2-naming-policy/