No accents for you!Follow

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/3608419/Public_Test_Realm_Patch_43_Notes-9_27_2011#blog

âböût tîme!!

I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.

Because there's nothing more fun than being told "invite (gibberish)" and needing to figure out how to spell it.

Their fault for being French Canadians in the first place.

Now I have to rush to take all the variations of Legolas before they stop it.

I have one alt-code character in my shaman's name, and that's just because I wanted to keep the same name when I realm-transferred.

I never had an issue with people using 'special' characters in their character names when it was obvious that it was meant to be like that. Of course I still have trouble inviting those people but I find ways to work around it.

It's the people who use the characters because the name they want is already taken who pretty much have ruined it for the people who actually want names with special characters. I can understand that sometimes you just really have a specific name in mind and it's frustrating when it's already been taken but do you really want to 'share' a name with one or more people on the server? I know that sometimes it's done as a joke but when all those Legolas and Sephiroth clones are 85 and raiding, problems start to arise. What happens when one of them gets a reputation as a ninja or a jerk or a poor player and suddenly people stop inviting you because they remember "that holycow guy is an idiot" even though you are hollycow or something similar.


(I'd have used special characters in the examples but my netbook won't do the alt codes or at least I can't seem to figure out how to do them on it.)

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/search?q=anobix&f=wowcharacter

Pretty amazing actually, I was the first Anobix (I made it up randomly, it doesn't exist elsewhere that I am aware of). Surprised to see how many (if only 10 others) have been created since then. Makes me wonder how many of them saw my character name and decided to use it.

I just started a rogue and was suprised that the name "Zit" wasn't taken o_o

But I hate accents. Stupids.

I multibox and when I create a new group, I like to have a theme for the names. I would use an accent if one of my key names was not available, but that's it.

And yeah yeah, I know you all hate me, down with multiboxers, blah blah blah....

I wouldn't be surprised that a bunch of them are people who saw you on here

I am so, so disappointed. I had neither enough coffee nor the right pair of glasses and misread the name as "Beohm". Given the aforementioned lack of coffee, I kept imagining Inspector Clouseau trying to pronounce "bomb" and it seemed to fit for a RAW thread. I was hoping you had Engineering:

You are not the only one. EVERYONE misreads that. Kerning failure.

Been wondering the same as well. Mazra was a name I came up with as a surname in Star Wars Galaxies before WoW was even in beta. I needed something that rhymed with Chazra... don't judge me.

Had no idea Mazra was a common character name. 61 Mazra on eu.battle.net and 210 Mazra on us.battle.net. I was the only Mazra for the first year of WoW, though.