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I just think ... look what seems to get forgotten is that the staff are people, not blind rules-following automaton. A staff member can look at a name like Loramin and think "that sounds like a random fantasy name and not anything I've ever heard of in the real world". That same staff member can also look at Winchester (for instance) and think "you know, I think I may have heard of that ..." So yes, I do understand that the rules say a name can be changed for being the same as a trademark. But as I mentioned before, there are 10k new trademarks issued every quarter in the US alone. If the staff was a bunch of rule-enforcing robots they would write a script to match character names against every new trademark as it comes out ... but that will never ever happen because they aren't robots trying to ban every trademarked name. What they are is people, people who love this game so much that they volunteer their own free time, spending some of it to change obviously recognizable names that don't belong in Norath so that everyone else can enjoy the game more. That basic fact makes me feel my name is relatively safe, but at the same time it also ensures that I'll feel no ill will if it does get changed. And I really think it would help a lot if everyone else here also tried to keep that basic fact in mind when having these discussions.
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Last edited by loramin; 02-12-2018 at 01:07 PM..
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I'm a little sad that the name gestapo are finished. It was really fun and I enjoyed the time I logged in to inform on people. But too many nerds got out of hand and made a headache for our blessed, immersion loving staff.
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Chardok 2.0 is coming "Soon (tm)" meanwhile, enjoy the name changes!
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Would I personally be upset and quit the game if a name was changed? Probably not. But saying as Vorhees did above "anyone that is upset over this isn't an adult" (paraphrasing here) is lacking understanding of other people, either due to an inability to empathize or simply being mean for the sake of being mean. Blah blah blah. I am tired of this topic, I am sure the guides are REALLY tired of this topic, and wish you all well. Going to try to extract myself from it now. I just get irritated when people start slinging personal insults at others for a good laugh when it's clear the targets are genuinely upset. Pretty cowardly and debased imo. | |||
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This one might be better to forget. I KNOW IT PAINS YOU, but let it go.
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People just need to have brains in their heads, and recognize that no individual had anything to do with the policy being enforced. I said it many different times, but you had the peanut gallery pumping up the individual giving him false credit for the sake of trolling purposes, and making him really feel like he should be taking credit. Anyone that believed this narrative is retarded, to be blunt. | |||
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Has anyone that has self-reported a name violation actually had your character's name changed?
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