this game needs name police, names are not sentences or phrases ....

Shihp00

Hands in the air

Danikat

There are rules on what you can call your character and if you're found to have broken them you can be forced to change it, if ZOS thought it was important to enforce lore-friendly names they could do it the same way. The fact that they don't indicates they're ok with it.

I always use names which can at least pass for lore friendly even if they don't strictly follow the naming conventions (one is also a joke name, but still looks lore friendly) but it doesn't bother me at all if other people don't. It's their character and their choice what to call them.

disintegr8

Why would anyone care what I call my characters?

As long as it's not offensive (according to sensible standards), deal with it.

ixthUA

I once made the shortest and fattest possible bosmer sorcerer with a name Pharthy (she looked like a female dwarf) and game allowed it, which is fun. I think naming rules should remain as they are.

Carcamongus

This is an RPG, so roleplaying is part of it, which is why I think my names should be, well, actually names and not sentences. Granted, I'm not the best at picking beautiful names, but that's another matter. However, this is also a game in which you're meant to play as you like, within the ToS. I frown upon non-Argonian names that are sentences, but that's all I can do. Non-name names don't prevent me from enjoying ESO, so why should someone else's harmless fun be curtailed because of my own preferences? Besides, I've seen some hilarious names, especially in BGs.

Castagere

BardokRedSnow wrote: »

I know your list is fuller than Coldharbour then @Castagere lol

LOL, it really is. I just can't play with anyone that can't come up with a real name. Nothing personal it's just me.
Fantasynames.com is a great site if you want an ESO lore/race-friendly name. They cover just about every MMO.

TaSheen

I have 80 characters (three accounts, playing on both PC megaservers). Every one of them has a lore friendly name. Not one of them was taken when I was making those characters.

They all have first name-last name (and yes in some cases I realize UESP doesn't consider that lore friendly, but they are not the arbiters....)

I've never even seen either a first OR last name duplicate in game. And I spend about 7 hours in game every day of the year. [Lucky me, I'm retired so I get to play as much as I want to; unlucky me, I'm old, so.... yeah....]

MasterSpatula

Do I hate these names? With the white-hot passion of a thousand suns.

Do I have any right to force my view on others? I do not.

thorwyn

There was a similar policy in LOTRO when it started and the result was that the nerds went mad and mass reported people for violating Sindarin grammar and whatever other reason they came up with. Some people even inspected other players and lore-checked the names of their legendary weapons.
No, ESO does not need any kind of name police that goes beyond the existing rules. If other people's names are disturbing you or spoil your immersion, turn them off and mind your own business. Not everyone is willing to dig into the ESO lore but everyone is paying the same money to play the game.

rpa

I prefer short names with no äççêñtß. I'm lucky if i find pronounceable word of any kind (in my first language) which is not taken. I once took a challenge to find 4 characters long name and managed to find one but it took rather lot of tries.

Cadbury

thorwyn wrote: »

There was a similar policy in LOTRO when it started and the result was that the nerds went mad and mass reported people for violating Sindarin grammar and whatever other reason they came up with. Some people even inspected other players and lore-checked the names of their legendary weapons.
No, ESO does not need any kind of name police that goes beyond the existing rules. If other people's names are disturbing you or spoil your immersion, turn them off and mind your own business. Not everyone is willing to dig into the ESO lore and everyone is paying the same money to play the game.

That was Laurelin, IIRC. The players on Landroval were cool.

thorwyn

That was Laurelin, IIRC. The players on Landroval were cool.

No, I never played on the RP servers. It was a normal server I was talking about. I don't even want to imagine the lore frenzy on a RP server.

Cadbury

thorwyn wrote: »

That was Laurelin, IIRC. The players on Landroval were cool.

No, I never played on the RP servers. It was a normal server I was talking about. I don't even want to imagine the lore frenzy on a RP server.

All in all, as a non-RPer it was a fun trippy experience.

But back on-topic, I personally only take issue with blatantly offensive names, and those already get reported and weeded out.

Dr_Con

in Everquest i had a GM give me an apostrophe for Across D'Universe. This is not only a phrase but a reference to a song by the Beetles.

The argument and whole premise/justification from another game you use to back this topic is rendered inert by this experience. Let people name their characters what they want so long as it isn't objectively offensive or harassing other groups or infringing on trademarks.

BenTSG

I'm fine with people having some strange and silly names, sometimes there are a few good ones. What I am against though is the people that either use repeated characters that flood your chat box, or names that are *entirely* special characters/accented characters to hide themselves. It's all well and good having a name with accents in it that make sense, but having a name like that is still unique enough to not be taken, but spelt entirely with 4 different Spanish accented Letters, 2 greek ones, and a Omega symbol or something stupid like that is just, well, stupid.

FeedbackOnly

Katheriah wrote: »

I'm pretty sure all variants of names like Geralt and Jennefer are already taken. After three times of 'this name is not available' people might resort to silly things.

😈 This would change we could check name options before finishing character

Mesite

I just started again on the Xbox and the Xbox stuck random numbers after my name. I will learn how to remove them eventually but there is an entire world which needs to be rescued from Molag Bal and that's my main priority at the moment.

Aztrias

I don't really care what other people name their characters, but I try to keep mine mostly lore friendly

Parrot1986

I spend more time trying to think about a name I find funny than I do messing about with how the character looks. To each and their own, let people do what they want when it comes to naming their alts

adriant1978

Ridiculous names irritate me too, but you could never enforce anything like this. I doubt they could do reliable automatic detection of "somewhat fantasy characterish" names, and they can't have moderators manually reviewing everything. Plus the requirement that character names be unique means that all the really good lore-friendly names were taken long ago.

wazzz56

or you could just let people play the game they want to? Some people like lore names, some like funny some like edgy..and guess what? it's not yours or any of our business

jaws343

Mesite wrote: »

I just started again on the Xbox and the Xbox stuck random numbers after my name. I will learn how to remove them eventually but there is an entire world which needs to be rescued from Molag Bal and that's my main priority at the moment.

That's not your Character name, that is your Account name.

And I'd be vehemently opposed to account name policing like this. Since my account name is one that I have had for over a decade and is used in every game I play on xbox. Which is how xbox account names function.

haelene

I will never understand why people get so aggravated about things like this. It's such a little thing to get so worked up about. If it were bigoted or offensive in some way sure, but is this really an issue that needs resources devoted to it?

It's also a common side effect of forcing every character to have a unique name.

UnabashedlyHonest

Quethrosar wrote: »

i remember in everquest character names had to be somewhat fantasy characterish. It's very stupid to see people in this game running around with names like zzzzxxxslayerzzzxxxx or iamthegodaroundhere or whatever. i am not a role player but i do think names need some policing.

No thank you. ZOS already does enough, maybe even too much, "policing" of names, including guild names.

Ragged_Claw

Nah, I love seeing quirky and clever names. Saw someone on NA the other night called 'MyMicrowaveExploded' and I was like, same, bro, same. It gave me a laugh. I play to relax and have fun, it's bad enough that the ban hammer is coming down for relatively innocuous names like 'Stavestroker' and 'Battlebytch' (both friends of mine) and now you can also get hammered for your name being TOO lore friendly and too similar to an NPCs.

Obviously anything gross/harmful should be banned but I'm still seeing plenty of that around. For ZoS to implement 'name police' they'd have to get that in order first.

rotaugen454

I think we need police police for people who try to decide things for others. Guess that includes me now too...

Zabagad

fizl101 wrote: »

There are lots of Argonian NPC with phrases as names, I don't think players need to have enforced a kind of european high fantasy name on them

Yes - all my argonians have names like that - maybe the next one will get the name "Calls-Name-Police"?

Mcboland

Turn names off?

rotaugen454

I had an Argonian named "Poops-in-armor" that had to change his name to "Soils-Armor" thanks to the name police.

Surak73

"names are not sentences or phrases"

You wouldn't be popular in Black Marsh...