Motion to ban....

2008-09-28T10:43:28Z

... names that use obscene amounts of non-english characters!

In all the time ive been playing wow, theres certain things that really get up my nose. One of them being names with non-english characters in it.

The main reason for this gripe is because these are the people that always want an invite to group, but never want to message you, they have a friend in you group that says

"Please can you inv ßígstúþïÐñâmë to group"

Or its ßígstúþïÐñâmë saying:

"last spot for <Inser your class here> for gruul pug, /w me"

Like I have any idea how to type that name or that I am at all inclined to try.

I can understand some people want that really 'leet' nick and change one letter subtley so they can look cool in-game, for their e-peen etc. But people that just make up an obscure name like 'Øÿàñĉè' just need shooting.

I also understand that characters like ø, ü, á, í, are used nativley in certain countries. But these characters are only found on native keyboards! When someone from another country needs to type one of those characters they cant do it, they need to spend wasted minutes (like i have done for this blog ;D) in Character Map hunting down characters just for a simple whisper.

I'd rant more, but my kids need feeding and im running out of witty things to say!

So wipe these insane characters from the game, just for the sanity or the masses :D

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Motion to ban....