Friday, March 21, 2014

Blizzard's Seemingly Arbitrary List of Offensive Character Names

So, I'm creating some new characters in Diablo III to run on Hardcore mode.  My thought was to name them some sort of sex-related jawnz, since, you know, "Hardcore."

Anyway, I was kind of surprised at the names that were and were not accepted.

For my Wizard, I tried the following names:
 - RonJeremy -- DENIED
 - RonaldJeremy -- DENIED
 - PeterOToole -- Accepted

The surprising part was not that PeterOToole was accepted, it was that RonJeremy and RonaldJeremy were denied.

For my Demon Hunter, I tried the following names:
 - JizzCannon -- DENIED
 - SpermCannon -- DENIED
 - SemenCannon -- Accepted

I was delighted when SemenCannon was accepted.  I felt like I was gaming the system.

Also, my first ever character's name is TitsMcGee.  Apparently "tits" is not on Blizzard's offensive names filter.