ToS Violation for name ????

It is offensive because people want an immersive game and someone running around with a stupid name or some reference from RL stuff, is going to break that immersion.

It doesn't have to be Hitler to be offensive.

stop naming yourselves stupid crap, get a sense of originality, and stop crying.

Simple truth is that when it comes to diseases, people who actually suffer from these diseases might very well be offended. As long as you don't know how badly certain diseases can affect people, I think it's rather ignorant to say that a name like that can't be or isn't offensive.

That aside, it's a common thing in games with MMO to come up with diseases as names because then in the game, when someone is killed by you, their chat channel will say something like "you were killed by anemia" in your case.

Some disease are worse than others, but I think as a rule of thumb, choosing an actual existing disease or condition is at least in poor taste and can be offensive to people.

I am not shocked or offended easily, but I do think names like this (and many others) are childish and ignorant at best. Even if it doesn't phase me, I can see how people might find it offensive.

Don't forget that there are some general filters for name creations, but mostly aimed against profinaty, which can be easily circumvented with spelling alterations. After that, they don't go out and check all names. They just check incoming reports and that's it. So don't be surprised when some people haven't had their name changed...guess they just haven't been reported, that's all.

I don't get it.

How is anemia all that offensive? Seriously? The mods must be mucho bored.

Yeah tell that to all the Jedi i have seen running around with many differnet forms of Bater just so they can think they are funny when they get the Master title.

Did you read the post above yours? Very clearly explains why the name was reported.

Rather than picking a name out of a dictionary or being childish - how about people actually use some imagination and create a unique name that fits within the Star Wars universe.

Yeah, nothing stupider in my opinion than someone who goes around rating people's names in an mmo and flagging them for "unoriginality" or some idiotic crap like that.

If you're happy with your own name, why not just go on and play your own game? You people concentrate way too much on things that are so very unimportant, it seems.

Anemia can be quite mild too....
I find it hard to believe many people haven't had at least a mild touch of it from time to time, at least half of all people.
It is the most common blood disorder.

Its a shame diseases get all the good sci-fi womens names. The eating disorders especially sound like evil space queens.

If names are so very unimportant, why this multi-page thread about somebody being made to change their name?

I've seen some names that were a lot more offensive than this example, and I've reported them, other people were like "Why are you reporting that name?" and I answered "Because I feel it's a bad attitude to encourage indifference" and I kept on reporting it till it got changed.

I'll refrain from giving examples, since they'd probably be filtered too.

Just because this thread has a lot of pages doesn't really prove that it's important to judge and rate people's names in an mmo. I'm pretty sure that a number of the pages on this thread are full of statements from people who are expressing how stupid it is that someone would spend time in an mmo reporting names for what they feel is "lack of originality".

My point is this: This mmo is full of fun activities and has an engaging story for each and every class. Lots to do without having to spend your time acting as the "Name Police".
Just my humble $0.02.