After the World of Warcraft Forever beta ended final week, Blizzard opened up the servers to character creation so as to enable gamers who purchased one of the Skyborne packs to order their names. However lots of folks have been falsely given a “restricted” message after they tried to order their identify.
Even after the tough begin that Blizzard’s identify reservation system had on Tuesday, some gamers weren’t capable of reserve their identify, with the character creation display telling them their identify was on the restricted checklist. Blizzard has since fastened the issue, and advised gamers it was resulting from a bugged identify filter.
Neighborhood supervisor Kaivax took to the WoW Forever forums to clarify: “In WoW Forever, we’ve been engaged on the restricted identify checklist, which is an inventory the sport makes use of to verify for non-profane names that we want to prohibit, reminiscent of main Warcraft lore characters or names which might be blocked for technical causes. Right now we’ve decided that now we have a bug within the course of that precipitated the sport to be overly restrictive with some names. For instance, it has been incorrectly proscribing names containing ‘c-o-n.'”
Within the replies to Kaivax’s submit, it was made clear that the identify filter was a bit overzealous. Player Nursejoy posted: “Main Warcraft lore characters? I perceive that but it surely appears any named NPC is on the checklist. Instance: Generically named NPCs ‘Nurse’ and ‘Officer’ hardly maintain main Warcraft lore however names containing ‘nurse’ are restricted. It is a particularly dangerous instance for example impression.” They then went on to checklist 23 totally different character names with the phrase ‘nurse’ that they supposedly tried to order, however could not.
In keeping with Kaivax, the fixes ought to have gone stay with the server restart, however some gamers are nonetheless reporting issues reserving their names. Nevertheless, I have been capable of go in and reserve the identify ‘Concon Concon,’ so the precise mixture that Kaivax talked about does appear to have been fastened no less than.
However whereas this overly strict identify filter seems to have been a bug, WoW Forever has been pretty strict on character names. There was an argument comparatively early within the beta about names being reported, and Blizzard needed to come out and reassure gamers that people have been reviewing the experiences. I additionally acquired an opportunity to take a seat down with WoW Forever principal sport designer Kris Zierhut to speak concerning the future of the sport, and it looks like the workforce is laser-focused on making it an much more social model of the MMO.