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Account Harsh Ban for improper naming?
pupurun
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I just created an account in FF XIV to do a free trial. I created a couple of chars..played for almost 1 day and today , just for the laughs, i created a new char and was trying a lot of funny names , just to test the game's naming policy...And boy its loose....The minute i typed ''Adolf Hittler''(their creation actually allows a toothbrush moustache 
) and the client accepted it! I was really suprised and of course i could just erase the char but i new that soon someone would report me and the GMs would force me to chane it....LIKE IT HAPPENS TO ALL MMOS(and trust me i ve played them all) . But then BAM. I realised i was banned (3.5 Naming Right). Oh well ..i WAS asking for it tbh and i suppose SE is a much stricter company than..let's say Blizzard. So i went to my e-mail and there i see that i have received a 216 HOUR BAN (9 DAYS !!!) which is eligible for perma ban as well (on a one day old free account lol) . Are they serious? 9 days ban for that? I ve played mobas that give 1-3 days ban for harassing and using racist remarks. What was even funnier was that they even accused me of : 3.3 Profanity and Offensive Language which is hilariously stupid cause that char had a life span of 2 hours tops and i didnt even type ANYTHING to any chat tab . Any opinions or past experiences?
) and the client accepted it! I was really suprised and of course i could just erase the char but i new that soon someone would report me and the GMs would force me to chane it....LIKE IT HAPPENS TO ALL MMOS(and trust me i ve played them all) . But then BAM. I realised i was banned (3.5 Naming Right). Oh well ..i WAS asking for it tbh and i suppose SE is a much stricter company than..let's say Blizzard. So i went to my e-mail and there i see that i have received a 216 HOUR BAN (9 DAYS !!!) which is eligible for perma ban as well (on a one day old free account lol) . Are they serious? 9 days ban for that? I ve played mobas that give 1-3 days ban for harassing and using racist remarks. What was even funnier was that they even accused me of : 3.3 Profanity and Offensive Language which is hilariously stupid cause that char had a life span of 2 hours tops and i didnt even type ANYTHING to any chat tab . Any opinions or past experiences? 
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I was later banned for harassment. A permanent ban that support wouldn't discuss with me. All they clarified was that it was reported by the particular player.
Years later I requested an unbanning of my account and their support team couldn't find a reason regarding why I was initially banned -- therefore they unbanned me.
My tinfoil hat theories regarding why they banned me:
a) Lineage 1 was doing so poorly that NCsoft couldn't afford to lose the botting playerbase.
b) Maybe a Monitor was botting that character?
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The fact that they gave you the tools to go ahead and hang yourself was great in my opinion. It allows them to weed out the ones who most likely shouldn't be there to begin with. Rather see them let people do this then punish the hell out of them for it, for stupidity.
Doing things like that just to get kicks at other people misfortune or because you think it is funny is part of the problem with people today. When an appropriate action is taken against a person doing this they think it is extreme, when in fact what they got wasn't normally extreme enough.
You knew what you were doing and did it anyways...accept the consequences of your actions like an adult.
They should ban you here for 9 days as well.
I'm not going to bother to explain it to OP in this venue, because if he doesn't understand it without an explanation, he wouldn't understand it with an explanation.
And your asking us to think a little ...
And execute ... huh ... but being suspended or losing your job (perma banned ) for such behavior , does not need to be thought about ............does it
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Hopefully in another 100 years or so all the bad world history will go away and world peace will come.
I saw the toothbrush moustache during creation, had a laugh with a friend..tried the name for fun..never expected to pass through...It did...End of story...What i did,CANT compare with actual in game racist and sexist comments and behaviour that gets more lenient bans. Thats all i m saying. And i trully don't care about the account cause as i said ITS A FREE TRIAL. The reason i created the post was to show the disproportional penalties SE applies. You all act as holier than though as if you never fooled around in an online world. And noone yet has answered my question. If using an improper name deserves a perma ban what do racist and sexist behaviours do DESERVE? The same? If yes, aren't you equalising a stupid fucking name (its a name after all - it's not as if i named him ''f**yourM*m) to a deliberate, insulting and completely conscious harassment with sexism or racism ingame that usually gets a warning or a 3 day ban from the same freeking company. This is where you are asked to think. NOT IF HITLER WAS A BAD GUY. I think we all KNOW some history and me paraphrasing his name does not constitute his beliefs as my own.
Harsh?Not imo.
Overall as mentioned above SE is a weird entity but as we have seen just in game design ideas,they are a different culture over there,we should expect ideals to be different than ours.I find the gamer's themselves to be verry much different as well,so yeah all is good for me and you down in mexico "Edward Bear" :P
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There are generally a lot of bad things that happened in world history, talking about like the Native Americans, World War 1 & 2, and learning from mistakes to move forward is a great thing, but countries, and even the barrier between cultures and stuff doesn't seem to move on, and in some cases I have learn from personal experiences that somtimes because of history things may not even fully change for a few hundred years if even then.
Also the history of "genghis khan" many people seem to have forgotten this over the many number of years as well, I wonder if I would get banned for using this name because Age of Empires used to be one of my favorite RTS games.
There is also so much forgotten world history that has been lost over the 5000+ Years, yet most people who take school only know or think they know about like the first pilgrims 1620, and such, but what about day 0, there is so much forgotten and who knows what society would be like if everyone knew the actual world history of everything assuming someone didn't just hit the reset button to begin with.
Not that I believe history as it's fully taught anyways because it depends which side your on, how you look at it and there's so many general conspiracies that go around the world history as well.
It's kinda like that Flat earth debate where people say the earth is flat, it makes sense, and it doesn't because science says the earth is round, but then there are so many unproven theories that also make sense too that it could be flat but that goes beyond science.
He should just be glad that his account was only a trial account and he didn't waste money on it it's only a 9 day ban too assuming he changes the name, or starts another account I don't think they will life ban it assuming he changes the name and doesn't do it again.
There are very few RL names that people should be smart enough to not use ..Bob isnt one of them and makes your stance weak at best ...
Anyhow this thread is being derailed into areas that will get it locked ...
My idea of pressing the limits was naming a character after a music band once (Tragically Hip) knowing it would test the policy against using commercial names. They let me keep it.
I suspect one reason for the harsh ban is you were on a free account, so as you are not yet a paying customer they feel there's nothing really lost here.
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