Naming Policy

[Alawen Everywhere]

Originally Posted by Lazortag [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The policy is about character names, not guild names. The only restriction on guild names is that they can't be offensive.

"Help, I've fallen and I can't get up!"

Yes, we've all seen the commercials. Life Alert® is a registered trademark of Life Alert Emergency Response, Inc. While not as prominent as Inglourious Basterds, the guild name Life Alert also has no place on Project 1999. Naming a guild "Life Alert" is analogous to naming a guild "Kaiser Permanente", "Oxycontin" or "Gastric Bypass".

We all understand the naming rules and most of us understood them ten years ago. Some of us thought it would be cute or funny or cool or sexy to have the only anachronistic pop culture reference or cursing or lewd double entendre.

If the intention is to clean up the server for a genuine classic feeling, the same rules should be applied equally. That means "Inglourious Basterds" and "Life Alert" need to be changed along with "Gandalf" and "Justin Bieber".

Yes, Starklen, you finally caught me after all these years. I named my characters on Xev, Sullon Zek, Kane Bayle, Stromm, Blade's Edge, Stormreaver and Uldum servers after a famous NPC in a game that I'd never heard of before today. "Alawen" is clearly not a vaguely elf-sounding name generated by Sony's random name generator ten years ago. I'm surprised I wasn't found out long ago! Isn't everyone familiar with Alawen, the famous archer of Cyrodiil. Why, she's the master trainer in Marksman!