The reason why the name of the \"established\" guild has been changed now and not before is simple: GMs have finally started to enforce proper guildnames, which was way overdue.
There is absolutely no justification for improper names. The arguments \"I always use it\" or \"I\'ve had that name in PS for 3 years\" also are absolutely worthless.
Any decent RPer would not use a name that doesn\'t fit the setting, etc. of the game, even if the ingame name generator presented them with it! If they, by some mistake or misconception, did, anyway, they would, upon finding out about it, ask for the change themselves.
I\'m even inclined to say that sticking with an improper name should be punished more severely for older players than for new ones, because the older players can be expected to have gained deeper insight into PS than the newbie, even one that has read all guides.
The only GM mistreatment I have witnessed is that many GMs are too lax in enforcing proper names!
You cannot expect GMs to try to persuade / discuss each and every silly name; there are by far too many such fools streming into PS every day. Also, chances are hight that the offending char is not online when the GM is about to change the name. Therefore, obviously, the only way to keep the waste of time reasonable is to simply change without discussion ( the \"totalitarian attitude\" ). People with improper names are parasites because they force other players to endure their stupidity and GMs to waste their limited time on changing their stupid names in order to keep PS from degrading into the mess other MMORPGs are, and thus should be treated accordingly! There is no reason to give extra benefits to people who come here and chose to ignore the rules! :tdown:
The presence of strict enforcement of acceptable names and behaviour and the encouragement of RP (instead of just tolerating it) is exactly why I am still with PS, so I feel that the Mods / GMs are part of what keeps PS alive.
As for the database: what will happen? Exactly, the database will never be able to contain every single dumb name and variation of such that lamers may come up with. Hence the situation would be even worse: people would be complaining \"Dude, my name \"Zooparmahn\" was not on the banlist, so obviously it is allowed!\". This would make matters even worse than they are now!
The only fault I see is that the GMs told you to go here and post, instead of asking you to discuss it with the GM. Anyway, Acraig responded on that, anyway.
And no, dissenting opinions are not censored because they might make PS look bad. They are censored because they are uninformed, immature and most often insulting and offensively worded. There are several dissenting posts / threads that weren\'t deleted; what these have in common is that they are presented in a reasonable and constructive manner.
The dead accounts are due to people getting bored with the very limited options PS gives them, and those people who just come to check it out.
Obviously the freeness of PS does impact the strictness of GMs: there is no financial interest in having as many players as possible, therefore GMs are not forced by marketing and management vultures to betray their duty for the sake of the corporate machine!
Last but not least: to prevent any sort of favouritism or corruption, and to avoid bigotism, it is my opinion that any GM who has a char (be it GM or not) with an improper name, should immediately and permanently be deprived of GM privileges, the offending char deleted and the GM possibly banned, as they obviously don\'t care about what they are supposed to enforce!
How can we expect anyone to adhere to the naming rules if not even GMs do?
