Bot in the name is No reason to be banned!!!? I read the whole rule book and that doesn't come up anywhere in it.
That is why he wasn't banned.
Blizzard has always been a wusey company and I have a law suit pay off by them to prove it or should I say bty one of their -X- GM's with his own version of rules that ended costing the company over $20,000.00 and that GM his job and ability to maintain a web site in the continental United States for the next 25 years.
MegaBot come play Guild Wars you can use any name you want except the seven words that can't be said on american T.V.& Radio. There are no GM's making up rules or dictating their verison of a rule. In Guild wars everything in the game is controled by a master computer AI and not wimps with personal agendas. If you want to use the name Drizzt the MegaBot you can use it. As long as somebody else hasn't already used it. Also you can dance naked in the town square too if you want and other PC will strip off their cloths and join you. Personally I thought it was a little wierd when over 100 PC's did that exact thing but, what ever rings your bell I guess. LOL

Or if you like a more mature controled experience where the players are not called "xxXl337drizz7Xxx" and "ipownzjoo" stay with warcraft. ;)

Yup [img]smile.gif[/img] . That's what you get when you pay to play.

I think it has nothing to do with paying to play or a more mature content. The way a name system is set up is hardly an argument to play a game or not.

Think you can stay off the WoW threads and quit the fanboi shit? It grows old. We play WoW. Go play your Guildwars. Theres a reason its free. You'll figure it out eventually. I think the main reason you whine about woW is because it costs money. If you cant afford $15/month theres no need for you to even be posting

Ok settle down guys before this gets out of hand.

What T-D-C said. People get passionate when they talk about their favorite mmorpg. Let's keep this forum as friendly as possible.

That being said, TheCrimsomBlade it's true that you've posted about Guild Wars in a tons of World of Warcraft threads. I know you're trying to get some interest for the game, but those posts are mostly off topic. I'm sure there will be a lot more interest for Guild Wars once it will have been released for a few months.

[ 03-04-2005, 12:33 AM: Message edited by: Luvian ]

Nah Guild Wars is nothing for me [img]smile.gif[/img] and WOW is the perfect game even better than C&C Renegade online SHeeezh i thot that was impossible but i thot wrong there and when i think about it i think the name rules is okay not cool to meet a person who call him self 23æææår, Hitler or that stupid name i had first ;)

Anyway i pay gladly 15$ for playing this game it is worth every cent, they have made the best game in the world with this one i think!!

And please dont argue and fight here nothing good came out of that [img]smile.gif[/img]

It has everything to do with it IMHO. When you charge customers for a service they expect just that, a service. Every MMO that charges a subscription thus making money off their customers has to protect themselves from lawsuits and attacks (just look at marvel vs. city of heroes) and the naming polciy is usually always stressed.

I myself was really dreading the PTP trend as it mushroomed onto the horizon of online gaming but since buying my first pay-per-month MMO I never looked back. It truly does weed out many many of the idiots and 'l33t' kids you find on free games. There are a number of reasons for this.

One is full-time and on-call GM's that are there to actively enforce the rules and protect you at your request from harassment, vulgarity, abuse etc. Another is that the constant need for money tends to screen out the serious gamers looking for some genuine, friendly fun from the griefers who basically have little else to do. In a free game there is no money to police servers so people are pretty much left to their own devices. That means hackers, Pkers, griefers and countless distasteful character names you are forced to endure. This was my main reason for not even trying Guild Wars...the paying to play assures me of a great deal more than just the game itself. Just my 2 copper.

Well now you're making it an entirely different argument altogether. Instead of sticking to the naming system alone, you got things like trolls, 1337-speaking kids, active online modding in the game etc. involved. That was not my point; my point was that the naming system in itself isn't a very strong argument. That it may be related to other, potentially strong arguments is a different discussion.

I can understand that you have a fear of how Guild Wars will work out, but I'm not that convinced by your arguments, to be quite honest. Mind you, I haven't played a MMORPG ever -- and at the moment I cannot spare any time and money to change that situation -- but I consider myself reasonably balanced when it comes to an opinion about the genre [reading reviews, listening to arguments, viewing screenshots and movies etc.]. Guild Wars, in my eyes, is a very promising project, a project which makes me wonder how they will deal with things without having the monthly fee. The one side of me warns me for it, for the same reasons you mentioned, but the other side of me tells me that any MMORPG, or MMOG for that matter, has its problems with hackers, PK-ing. Popularity brings problems, regardless of subscription fees. It's all up to the game developers to devise a system to filter out those people, and if Guild Wars can do that without a subscription fee, then kudo's to them.

I think it would be rather unfair to judge Guild Wars before it's actual release. Just as it's unfair to judge an existing game for lacking certain newly developed elements.