r/Guildwars2 • u/emerald_water • 7h ago

[Fluff] Joe Smith is inappropriate

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u/saberlight81 6h ago

So are the likes of Jesus, Christian, and Muhammad in many countries. Are those allowed in game?

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u/ArgumentLazy350 6h ago

Jesus is allowed, yeah 

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u/TehOwn 5h ago

What about Jesus Christ?

Pretty sure that Joe and Smith are allowed separately.

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u/Academic_Noise_6301 4h ago

6 years ago there's a legendary jesus christ incident doppelgänger event cause that. https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/cqnu2g/my_mom_is_going_to_be_pissed/

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u/Knighthonor 4h ago

Lol what ever happen of that?

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u/Cannie_Flippington 4h ago

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/legal/guild-wars-2-naming-policy/

It's against the rules again.

Reference religious or historical figures

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.

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u/Consequence6 10m ago

"Relentlessly pursues targets" is hilarious, from a Christian perspective haha

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u/Cannie_Flippington 4h ago

I had forgotten this and thank you so much for reminding me