My name was acceptable on Live. Something I did not post, but can probably dig up the screenshots for, was a discussion I had with a Sony GM the very first day I created Schaden Freude on the live servers. At level one, I posted a petition asking for a GM to explicitly approve or deny my name (and intended surname). I sat in Gloomingdeep until I got a response (which, oddly enough, only took about 5 minutes. I was shocked). The GM knew what SchadenFreude meant and stated that he not only felt it was an acceptable name, he stated that it was an excellent name for a shadow knight. I did this because I have been through this before and wanted to avoid a power tripping guide with a name-hammer it if was at all possible.
In all of my travels as SchadenFreude, I have never encountered a single person who thought my name fell into the "stupid", "offensive", nor even the non-RP realm. I have always received a positive response for picking this name. Not only does it meet the naming policy from the live servers, it also meets the naming policy on P99 (as is currently defined in the rules).
Stop your silly crusade.
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