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Ok... i dont understand this and im sorry if this is in the wrong thread to post but i need to know why,

I dont understand how i can have the name Fetchum for months now, get to lvl 60 leave for a month and come back being told my name isnt in the policy? Surly if it wasnt in the policy it would have been changed a good while back now.. But if i cant have the name Fetchum i dont want to be anyone at all so i might aswell just leave especially if im gonna get told my name isnt in the policy on my first day back.

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Sorry again if this post dont make to much sense but im just annoyed to the fact that this has happend now...
 
There is absalutly nothing wrong with the name Fetchum anyway, its a name thats lived in Wr for a while now i just dont understand the sudden change of mind?

I Mean what is it.. Gm not in a good mood?

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I've even got a screenshot of when Wiz gathered up the server for a server meeting. But im blatently sitting infrot of "Wiz" and yet nothing is said, If my name wasnt suitable it would have been done there and then.. Ive been around enough Gm's for them to do something about it but for them not do to anything about my name clearly proves there is nothing wrong with this name, Altho it does show that some Gm's these days really do take there job a little bit to seriously.

If u want to see these screenshot all you have to do is ask i have it ready.
 
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Your name is against the policy. Sucks it got changed, but this won't help you.

If you're that torn up about a name, anyway... :eek:
 
I totally agree with there rules and policy's But some times theres just no point... this gm claimed that alot of ppl had there names changed but then i aint been here for like a month so i dont know what could of happend, for all i know this gm could be lying just to prove a point?

ah well.. i cant do much apart from give up anyway cya around...
 
Yeah, if its the the person I am thinking of they have been going around trying to change a lot of established toons names recently.

Everyone already does their job well enough that there arent any BobaFett Aragorns or SuPaPimP DaDdymacKS running around. That's enough where we don't need people who have been here for months worrying their name is going to get ganked because someone out of the blue decided they don't like it.

They even tried their hand at one of my toons, but MISSED :D Nice try. *wave*
 
Lol.. i just dont like to lose my name, Its not fair if u actually begin to like ur char and ur name.. u know it just sticks with u, Its hard to just change and for someone like me who doesnt like "Change" i find it difficult :sadf:
 
Actually what i found funny was the fact that i told the gm "Well if i cant have my name then i dont want to be anyone so i might aswell leave" and all i got back was

"Well if i see you on here again im going to change your name" i was like wtf? is that a threat? :brow:
 
Mm..

Well I dont feel like I should have to, but hey, why not.

Fetchum fetchum fetchum. Where do I begin? I thought I was being rather nice to you.

Well first of all I politely asked you to think of a new name, or I would have to give you one of my own creative names. Now, you then tried to lobby the point that if Wiz didnt change it, it's obviously fine. To which I replied. Okay then i'll change it for now, and if Wiz tells you it is fine i'll rechange it back. That, however, was not a good enough answer to which you replied, "No i'll just quit." And that's cool and all, wanting to quit over a name, quite the martyr. However, because you were trying to somehow threaten me that by you quitting I wouldn't change your name ( Im not sure how that works. ) I told you that If I caught you on again I would change it without warning. Why? I felt I had been nice enough by offering to believe that without a doubt Wiz might have really fancied your name, and so if it was good enough for him, I would love to change it back.

Somehow this is my fault. Im not sure how. As I see it YOU were the one to take that name at level one. You knew a name nerfing was coming when you read the rules all of those months ago. It was eventually going to happen, and that time just so happened to be now. Yup it sucks.
Im a stickler for the rules. Why? Because then I have people who will say things like, "You nerfed my name but what about the other 300 names I saw today that were 100 times worse than my name." Dont get me wrong, im not saying every name is bad. But come on, Fetchum? You're a beast lord named Fetchum. That isnt a tad bit obvious? Fetch Them. Get it?
Im not doing this because I had a bad day, or because I hate you, or even because according to some people, "I come off as a total bitch." Im doing this because, hey i'm a GM. Guess that means I might actually have to DO some work like, oh, I dont know, Try my best to enforce rules as they were obviously put there for a reason.

So in short, I hope this clears up everyones recent hissy over their names being changed.

-Mysti
 
I dunno, that's really pushing the bounds of name nerfing. I have a feeling every single one of my toons and their last names are going to get nerfed.
 
I agree with Darwin. Reasoning you put forward for nerfing Fetchum is quite absurd and far fetched.
 
I promised myself I wouldnt continue to reply to this... But here we go again.

II. No names from well-known, popular media. You can't be Aragorn, Gandalf or Garfield. Also, excusing it with that you spelled it Ganddalf or Garrfield will earn you a ban for sheer stupidity. On that note, no unrealistic or completely idiotic names either. "Rogue" or "Iksar" are not acceptable names.

III. No wordplays. "Froak Frog" is not an acceptable name, nor is Frog or Froak by itself, but those go under idiotic names anyway.

If that does not explain it please go read the rules again. It'll be enlightening.

-Mysti

Ps. To make it real easy for some of you, since my first post wasnt informational enough. If you have read the rules over again and still dont understand why rule III and rule II are the ones that Fetchum breaks i'll go into more detail. Okay lets discuss wordplays. This will be fun.

Okay so I make a necromancer named Bonesumonrz. A creative way to spell Bone Summoner. Kind of like Fetchum, a creative way to spell Fetch Them. Now then the more glaring similarity would be that; What do necromancers do? Well they use bones to summon skeletons and hey it might even be a stretch to say that I might have named my character not only on a clever spelling but based on what they do.

Okay okay, so I know what you're saying. "But gee, how does this apply to the wonderfully and aptly named Fetchum." Well this is the good part. Where I break down why its a bad name. Or rather why it breaks the rules.

Okay here we go. Kinda like my first example with Bonesumonrz, Fetchum is a clever spelling of Fetch Them, like I have already stated. Now then, what do beast lords do? They summon cool little animal pets. And oh my gosh! It just falls into place. Telling my pet to Fetch Them and woah, I am named Fetchum. This is just too crazy.

Okay so that should completely destroy any possible doubt in your ( universal ) minds.

So in short if you dont get my point this time, I really dont know what to say to you.

PPs. On a side note, even though I shouldnt, Trig I would like for you to show me the errors of my way. How is my first post completely, and I'll quote here;

Trig said:
I agree with Darwin. Reasoning you put forward for nerfing Fetchum is quite absurd and far fetched.
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Absurd and far fetched? Please tell me. I honestly want to know.
 
I'm not saying it's absurd or farfetched, it's just borderline, I mean bonesumonz sounds alot more illegal than Fetchum, sure Fetchum could be taken that way, but in the other sense Fetchum is a pretty legitimate name. It's peoples last names, involved in company names, and the like. While I'm sure Bonesumonz is just completely illegal and has no bounds, Fetchum is a grey area in my books.

Just my 2 CP.
 
Lanatir said:
The next logical step from Fetchum would be Killum. I understand why the GM's arent ok with that.
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I nerf a lot of names on that reasoning.

It may not be bad in itself, but it sets a precedent I don't want set.
 
lol i love how it turned to me threatning you about quitting.. And i do understand your job but your words was as followed "If you come back im going to change your name" If u had told me that if Wiz agree'd i could keep it u would change it back maybe i would have agree'd to it myself but since i didnt get any of that im only to think differently, This was the whole point of this thread to point out how sudden it was.


I Honestly only came on to see how the server was doing since i hadnt been on Fetchum in a month.. I also came on to give my cousin a little help with some stuff...

I didnt expect to come on to have to change my name, Your rules are fair and fine but you gotta give us some kind of freedom even if its a tiny little problem in someone's name, I take my names seriously in EQ so when i play my character i learn to like everything about them and you just get use to the way they are, If you seriously take name's this seriously Then u must know how i feel about this situation.

I do appologize to the way i acted, it was careless and i know you was doing your job but i cant help it, if i like something the way it is i dont want it to change, Even if i dont have a choice in the matter.

For me to change my name id have to completly change who i am, taking hes name away is just as bad as destroying the character itself.
 
Lanatir said:
The next logical step from Fetchum would be Killum. I understand why the GM's arent ok with that.
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While I have been nerfed for names, it wasn't a big deal with me, in fact Bella's shaman is perma-named the nerf name simply because we thought it was ok and cool sounding.

Now for fetchum, you see, I never once thought of "Fetch Them" when I read that name. I simply read it as a name, so actually, the fetchum, fetch them reasoning is kind of .. subjective.. No one, and I mean no one would ever read Killum and read it just as a name.

It simply isn't the same.

I do not know if you will get to keep your name Fetchum, I rather liked that name, actually, and (whoosh) just went right over my head that it was a name that could be nerfed. I didn't understand untill Misti answered (thank you for explaining, I know that takes a lot of courage to stand up and respond, explain, and go over the whole thing again)
and said the fetchum, fetch them thing. The fact you went to 60, with the admin staring at you, in a gif, is rather absurd, I agree if the name was against policy, it should have been addressed before then.
 
Exsactly.. No one would have thought of it as "Fetch Them" unless someone said something about it, But i dont dissagree with there rules or policy's i just didnt find it right to pick up on it at lvl 61... I honestly didnt find the name as "Fetch them" it was just a name that came to mind cos it sounded fun =) since i always use the name "Ludain" on any other server i thought id try something new for once and it stuck with me just as "Ludain" did.
 
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