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I get guild invites pretty much every time I play one of my unaffiliated toons. What I do is look at the names of the other player characters in the guild: \wh
by chiph 13y ago
I get guild invites pretty much every time I play one of my unaffiliated toons. What I do is look at the names of the other player characters in the guild: \who guildname, and see how many of them have accented or unicode names. I ignore the guilds with more than one or two, as those players are typically more immature than someone who took the effort to come up with a more "normal" name -- one that can be typed on a US keyboard.
Personally, I tend to name my female characters with a vowel on the end. So sort of like Russian names. ;)
- cell303 13y agoThis reminds me, playing WoW has been so much about names for me. Together with a friend we poked fun out of other people with stupid names or gave credit to creative ones. Usually I had a strong opinion about somebody's playstyle and age, even educational and social background upon reading a name (Not that I was ever right in these opinions, but what's interesting is that I had them). What's even more interesting is that we even "discriminated" characters with bad names when the game mechanic allowed us to do so (ganking, kicking out of groups,..) So I'm not sure whether there is a correlation between playstyles and names, but it certainly makes a difference in players behaviour towards each other.
- chiph 13y agoI've checked names on battle.net (previously, wowarmory) for uniqueness. So far, my 5 year old mage is still unique across all realms, all zones. It's even marginally pronounceable (bonus!) I do discriminate against names I don't like by just not grouping with them, but I won't go as far as kicking them. Play style difference between PvE and PvP players, I guess. :)
- jlgreco 13y agoI don't play WoW, but elsewhere on the internet where handles are used I've found myself becoming very prejudiced against people who's usernames both begin and end in an "x". So like "xYourMomx", or worse "xxYourMomxx", or even worse "xxxYourMomxxx". For some reason '(x+).*\1' correlates rather strongly with finding anti-social behaviour (for example, intentional shitposting) incredibly amusing.
- pc86 13y agoOr god forbid xXxYoUrMoMxXx
- jlgreco 13y agoVery true, variation in capitalization is some sort of multiplier. What I don't understand is the shear prevalence of this. Is there perhaps a popular system (email provider or game network or something) that is recommending these sort of usernames?
- PavlovsCat 13y agoIsn't it also a Straight Edge thing? Not that that's much better. Though I'd still rather play with xXpetetheblobXx than MasterOfPainDeath or KoldCiller or whatever... if I had any doubts about the toxicity of gaming (and I say this as a former gamer), one look at the average scoreboard would remind me again. Though I think they're products of society, rather than acting against it. Garbage in, garbage out..
- jlgreco 13y agoHmmm, I know "x"s in general are (like X tattoos on the back of your hands) but I didn't think that was a popular trend/movement/whatever anymore. Typically the option is less "xXpetetheblobXx or MasterOfPainDeath" and more "petetheblob or xXMasterOfPainDeathXx". The "x"s usually seem to go hand in hand with the more 'absurd' names. (I don't have any data for any of this though, I'm just going by what I have noticed which could be colored by various biases I have.)