Beta Access Revoked - Dopeman - Page 19

On May 20 2010 20:50 Perfect Balance wrote:
Their new policies are quite ridiculous.

The word "lust" means "want" in swedish, so every time I ask a friend if he wants to play a game I'm forced to write: "Do you have the intention to enter a game?" It's really annoying.

Then, if I want to end something, I can't even write "slut", which means "end" in swedish..

As you can imagine, starting and stopping games is quite a challenge for us..

On May 20 2010 20:50 Perfect Balance wrote:
Their new policies are quite ridiculous.

The word "lust" means "want" in swedish, so every time I ask a friend if he wants to play a game I'm forced to write: "Do you have the intention to enter a game?" It's really annoying.

Then, if I want to end something, I can't even write "slut", which means "end" in swedish..

As you can imagine, starting and stopping games is quite a challenge for us..

On May 20 2010 20:50 Perfect Balance wrote:
Their new policies are quite ridiculous.

The word "lust" means "want" in swedish, so every time I ask a friend if he wants to play a game I'm forced to write: "Do you have the intention to enter a game?" It's really annoying.

Then, if I want to end something, I can't even write "slut", which means "end" in swedish..

As you can imagine, starting and stopping games is quite a challenge for us..

On May 20 2010 10:21 morimacil wrote:
Its not really about whether you find it offensive or not.
Its more about if its appropriate or not.
I guess none of you are parents, most people here must be teenagers. So yeah, you probably smoke weed, and dont find names like "dopeman" offensive. To be honest, neither do I, but thats not the point.
The point is, that when the game is rated for 12 and above, as parents or as a company, you just dont really want the 12 year old kid to log in, and then face off against "dopeman.dopeman", "crack.addic7ed", "mein.kampf", "gay.fucker", and all that good stuff that people some up with for names when there is no moderation.
Now sure, you might not find the name "dopeman" offensive. And for example, a nazi wouldnt find the name "mein.kampf" offensive. And I suspect that drug users wont find the name "crack.addic7ed" to be offensive.
But they are still inappropriate. And 12 year old kids still shouldnt be seeing that kind of stuff when they log on to battle.net.
The question is not whether you as a teenager find the name offensive, the question is whether its an appropriate name for a 12 year old kid to see.

Seriously, how hard can it be to come up with a name that isnt a reference to drugs, sex, or an insult?

On May 20 2010 05:29 omg.deus wrote:


totally wrong...dope doesn't mean just drugs...it was slang for weed decades ago and nowadays exclusively refers to heroine. doesn't matter if u hang out with heroine users or not, it's irrelevant...unless ur sheltered or grew up in the 60s u know dope as heroine and heroine only.

b/c of this I can see why blizzard doesn't want any heroine related user names

EDIT: did some research and I guess there are some places like Kansas where heroine isn't around so people say dope to refer to crystal meth. Still, I found that the vast majority of people thought as I did that dope only refers to heroine.

On May 20 2010 10:21 morimacil wrote:
Its not really about whether you find it offensive or not.
Its more about if its appropriate or not.
I guess none of you are parents, most people here must be teenagers. So yeah, you probably smoke weed, and dont find names like "dopeman" offensive. To be honest, neither do I, but thats not the point.
The point is, that when the game is rated for 12 and above, as parents or as a company, you just dont really want the 12 year old kid to log in, and then face off against "dopeman.dopeman", "crack.addic7ed", "mein.kampf", "gay.fucker", and all that good stuff that people some up with for names when there is no moderation.
Now sure, you might not find the name "dopeman" offensive. And for example, a nazi wouldnt find the name "mein.kampf" offensive. And I suspect that drug users wont find the name "crack.addic7ed" to be offensive.
But they are still inappropriate. And 12 year old kids still shouldnt be seeing that kind of stuff when they log on to battle.net.
The question is not whether you as a teenager find the name offensive, the question is whether its an appropriate name for a 12 year old kid to see.

Seriously, how hard can it be to come up with a name that isnt a reference to drugs, sex, or an insult?

On May 19 2010 06:56 afg-warrior wrote:
my online name is afghan madman....am i in danger???

On May 21 2010 01:31 Nyxs wrote:
Better not get Stimpack as your name.

On May 20 2010 23:19 gedassan wrote:


Yes, this is bad design. They are totally not thinking about the rest of the world in this case.
Although you and your friend do have a workaround in turning off the profanity filter.

On May 20 2010 20:50 Perfect Balance wrote:
Their new policies are quite ridiculous.

The word "lust" means "want" in swedish, so every time I ask a friend if he wants to play a game I'm forced to write: "Do you have the intention to enter a game?" It's really annoying.

Then, if I want to end something, I can't even write "slut", which means "end" in swedish..

As you can imagine, starting and stopping games is quite a challenge for us..

On May 20 2010 22:01 Rickilicious wrote:



slut means end in swedish?! wow I'm gonna use so many shitty jokes with that.



but on topic, it's kinda ridiculous, and I wish they would draw the line somewhere, but I bet activision has say in it, not just blizzard, because, HAVE YOU SEEN THE NIGHT ELF DANCE, zomg horny movements lolz.