0.18% of Names Earned a Ban from WoW: Forever Beta

Posted 2 hr 43 min ago by Squishei

for violations of their Code of Conduct for their character naming conventions

Tom Ellis

Anyone saying they were removed from beta for naming their character “Billy Mcsuckmahballz” is telling little white lies. That character likely just received a forced name change.

Multiple unfortunate humans read through every name that was removed from beta today.

If you’re genuinely confused, remember that it’s our database, we can see every character you’ve created, not just the one you’re playing.

I read the list. No sympathy. Be a better human next time.

Tom Ellis

Well honestly I should know better than to have waded into that swamp, that’s on me. Since we’re here now I’ll give one more update on this topic before getting back to actually working on launch instead of reading everyone’s hilarious variations of the N word.

A couple of us spent the evening reading through everything again and checked every Reddit post and twitter and so far every one of them who’s posted their three cheeky or just inappropriate names has had a 4th character they have accidentally omitted. We’ve found exactly one person who we genuinely think was going for an RP sounding name and ran head first into the sad fact we have way too many derogatory terms for some people. I’m going to have yet another poor sod read through it again too so we have yet another perspective.

What else have I seen a lot, ok yep, Blizzard is going extra woke or other crap like that. Nope, any name we revoked beta for yesterday would have not been allowed in any variation of WoW at any time in its history and would have earned you a suspension. We just manually ran names through the same system they would have been normally and then out of an abundance of caution read through every one.

No new standards have been set or enforced for Forever’s Beta.

Our naming filter wasn’t ready to rock for dual names but we naively thought after twenty years folks knew what was and wasn’t ok and we’d be fine for a few weeks of beta till it came online. Yeah.

0.18% of names earned an exit from beta. Please pick better names at launch. Everyone else, thanks for checking out our beta, have fun and keep the feedback coming.

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Comment by WizzlegrimThe roaches scatter aboutComment by Leeroy1887one day blizzard will explain why you can use the word racist in namesComment by Oxyotl“Billy Mcsuckmahballz"

Laughed a bit too hard. I wonder where the line is, I've seen much worse for sure.Comment by whFluxPathetic snowflakes.Comment by Tornado20Australians got banned for the C word, is that fair? It is part of their culture.Comment by FalcristTwitter has never been an acceptable location for information and announcements. I don't have and never wanted a relationship with that site under its previous owners or its current owner.

Blizzard owns and operates a whole family of websites. They need to put this kind of information THERE. Not somewhere else on the internet. WowHead and similar sites should be a nice-to-have, not a requirement because I don't have a twitter account.Comment by MiokoIt must be so depressing for them to work on giving players more ways to express themselves, only to have to manage some dudes thinking that using a mass murderer's or a sex offender's name is fun.
You can be a kid at heart, just don't be a #$%^& :')Comment by Ahhtchoum"Oh no, I cannot have a racist name in my fantasy video game :("Comment by StoneLegionSays Blizzard using Elon Musk who like giving out Nazi salutes X Platform for communications LOLComment by RichieRicsIf they are cool, they'll share the best ones.Comment by mozinqoGood. The "adults" crying and losing their minds over this would be hilarious if it wasn't so sad. Bunch of socially stunted losers.Comment by EagleFangKarateAtleast i dont see people mocking Charlie kirk running around anymoreComment by geckzillaTwitter has never been an acceptable location for information and announcements. I don't have and never wanted a relationship with that site under its previous owners or its current owner.

Blizzard owns and operates a whole family of websites. They need to put this kind of information THERE. Not somewhere else on the internet. WowHead and similar sites should be a nice-to-have, not a requirement because I don't have a twitter account.Comment by Leeroy1887the twitter comments all being raging chuds going on about classic. says so muchComment by JenramaTwitter has never been an acceptable location for information and announcements. I don't have and never wanted a relationship with that site under its previous owners or its current owner.

Blizzard owns and operates a whole family of websites. They need to put this kind of information THERE. Not somewhere else on the internet. WowHead and similar sites should be a nice-to-have, not a requirement because I don't have a twitter account.Comment by DezerokSays Blizzard using Elon Musk who like giving out Nazi salutes X Platform for communications LOLComment by JenramaTwitter has never been an acceptable location for information and announcements. I don't have and never wanted a relationship with that site under its previous owners or its current owner.

Blizzard owns and operates a whole family of websites. They need to put this kind of information THERE. Not somewhere else on the internet. WowHead and similar sites should be a nice-to-have, not a requirement because I don't have a twitter account.Comment by SwayAwayGeorgeAny update of getting rid of TRE? :P

Got to really enforce your ToS :)Comment by FlaksI honestly think if they IP banned asmongold they'd probably save themselves a ton of headache since most of his community wouldn't even think about the game let alone bring their stink to it.Comment by Nymrohd“Billy Mcsuckmahballz"

Laughed a bit too hard. I wonder where the line is, I've seen much worse for sure.

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