EA ID Names

@Sp1r1tMusicorum

There is a recent EA Community Manager post that as an example, may help you understand the position somewhat, although I did not know your chosen word was prohibited. 

@EA_Pythia wrote:

while I wasn't aware that the word "gay" is banned, it does make sense to me - sadly it's about the people using it and the context it is used in, which is the problem, not the word itself. In my friend group, as example, we use the word gay to describe each other, as we are indeed all queer, but when someone yells it across the street on a night out, it's sadly generally speaking not used in the positive sense. 

In an online game, where you get randomly matched with people from all kinds of demographics, the chance that the word gay is being used to insult someone is far more likely than not. And I don't know about you, but being called a word that you identify as, but which is used in a way meant to hurt you, is not a good feeling. 

Banning a word is not necessarily meant to marginalize it, it's actually meant to keep it from being misused and reappropriated back into a negative connotation.

- Pythia

https://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Why-is-this-phrase-blocked/m-p/12283110#M230863

What I find even more interesting is to use my name i had to change Spirit to Sp1r1t but then in Apex, I saw someone with the name Spirit in their name spelt just fine, and there is no way Musicorum (latin for Music) is a prohibited word, so now I'm just plain confused..

@Sp1r1tMusicorum in your op you seemed definitive that it was spirit that was not allowed. What made you think that specifically? If its not that then there must be sone other reason. You've confused me too. 

Well the simple answer is, the only way i could have a variation of my name is by changing the word Spirit to Sp1r1t the rest of it stayed the same... So if Spirit isn't allowed, then why did someone else have it, and if it is, why the heck cant I use my own legal name??  Musicorum means Music and as you can see from my username on the forums, that is all there and perfectly fine...  I'm sensing a lack of consistency in the name enforcement, and to be honest, a lack of sense being made by these obscure rules...  Again I understand some words because they are abused to the max, even though they shouldn't be, but I cannot for the life of me figure this one out, except the username had (word)spirit(word) in theirs, so if Spirit is banned as a first word that's legitimately messed up, if its banned all together, then wtf is up with someone else allowed to use my name in part of their ID name...  Unfortunately reaching out to support equated to absolutely ZERO definitive answer, and being told to ask a community manager about it here...  Again I'm not asking to use some profane use of the word, I'm asking that my legal name not be considered prohibited because it makes ZERO logical sense..  And I no I'm not directing frustration at you, just the situation to clarify.  I just wish someone could give me a straight answer at EA... But that seems just out of my grasp.

@Sp1r1tMusicorumHello!
I was actually the one asking the question that got Pythia’s response (above), so I think I can help in this situation. The user you mentioned with “spirit” in their name likely had a word in front that may end with an “s” some thing like “catspiritentertainment” which can mean “cats pirit entertainment” or “cat spirit entertainment” logic tells you it should be the latter, but the automated system likely saw it as the former. Also a EA is very strict when it comes to anything that could possibly offend anyone, so they likely banned spirit as it can be considered an “alcohol or drug reference”. Sometimes drinks are referred to as spirits. Hope this helps, happy gaming!

Yeah, unfortunately without proper context and zero way for them to manually approve certain names, its basically implied that my name in and of itself is offensive, while I understand that might not be the intent, its exactly how it leaves me..  Rather far stretch regardless, like you really have to try to use Spirit offensively, in comparison, and again the fact they have zero way to manually approve legitimate names is just a bit disappointing, guess I'll just be (offensive)Musicorum, wonder if I would have to pay full price for a name change on that..  Still, I'd love to have some of the staff review names on a case by case basis, especially if its not a nickname but a legal name, let the person send in their id and manually approve it.

@Sp1r1tMusicorum

I don't know if there is manual oversight or not. But I think that a manual appeal would not change anything. As @EA_Pythia put it, it's about protection from subversion into negative connotation. 

@Str8UpD0gwater Again I get it, i do, they gotta police people from certain words because some people are honestly irresponsible, and I get awe boo hoo i cant use my favorite nickname, the part that gets me, is that according to EA, my legal name is offensive to someone, #SorryNotSorry but if it comes to it, I'll just xfer my account to steam use only, because i've played ALOT of games from ALOT of companies, and this is the only one not even willing to respond, let alone work with me...  Pretty crazy that a persons basic name is "offensive", but again what do I know...  Again the irksome part is, whos feelings am I gunna bloody well hurt with the word Spirit?  Like what? PoofYourASpiritNow?  DrinkYourSpirits? like legit at worst, its so softcore, that you would have to be TRYING to be offended to actually get offended.... Get my drift?  And again, I posted this because the EA "Support" told me to in order to get a community manager to look at it and respond.... so i dunno m8.

@Sp1r1tMusicorum no idea why support would tell you to come here about this issue, as the EA staff who work here on AHQ cannot help you directly with account-related issues, only the support team can help you.

I wish I knew, it honestly seems like they didn't wanna do the job so they sent me off here in a futile effort to get the attention of someone who probably wont even respond to this post only to tell me to go back to support....  Man if I had done that in my old job as a tech support, it woulda been my old job on day one not 8 years later...  Oh well I appreciate the community responses and effort, including yours.