Re: My last name is alerted as profane language.

Man, this is ridiculous. I played every Madden for the past 20 some years, and all of sudden I can't use my name (Mulligan) in the game. This game has been out 6 months, this is a joke.

Mulligan is my surname too. Absolutely ludicrous and completely flies in the face of their so called equality and inclusion drive.

I will not have a company tell me to change my name because they deem it offensive.

I bought Madden 21 just 6 days ago and settled down to play it today. I've already requested a refund.

I'm surprised EA haven't been threatened with legal action on this.

Wonder what all players in the NFL with "offensive names" think of this. EA you should be totally ashamed of yourselves and your awful response to this.

To add to this I am currently attempting to create a new owner in the offline CFM mode and when entering the text "Sheila" get this message.  It seems however that the actual test causing the warning message is "Sheil".  There is nothing to indicate this as profane nor is it any form of slur etc. etc.

I mean it can't be that hard to resolve this issue based on what I am reading here - aside from the fact you simply don't care!  

It is the same as when creating owners etc. in offline CFM ( you must know not everyone plays online right!? ) - once created they cannot be amended, it is my offline file & surely I should be able to make amendments to created owner names etc. etc.

Jeez I wish you guys would actually look at your products prior to release in an attempt to make then at least barely usuable...I work for a software company & if I allowed products as poorly put together as yours out the door I would be fired...

@GoGoCardigan 

Is Sheila being used for the first or last name and if it's the last name what's the first name being used?

It being entered as the first name. Last name "Ford" is fine, no message received if I enter this first. Message only comes up when "Sheila" is entered as first name. 

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@misakimi wrote:
@EA_Blueberry It really really shouldn't matter. Sheila is a VERY common name. EA are effectively acting as judge on diversity by deciding whether REAL names are offensive or not. It's quite sickening. Where does it stop?

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@misakimi 

This was likely not intended and falls more under as a bug report where the filter is not working as it should. Will get that added to the list, thanks!

@GhostYaHost 

Added your name for review too!

I appreciate your efforts but there shouldn't be a list of "acceptable names". The idea is very worrying and offensive. Who is judging which names are acceptable or not? And who thinks they have the God given right to do that? It's very concerning and is completely anti diversity and inclusion which EA is supposedly supportive of.

I appreciate you are trying to make the best possible out of a bad situation and I feel sorry EA has put you in this position. I have contacted the BBC to investigate this as I've effectively been told my Irish surname is offensive and that is quite frankly borderline racism.

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@EA_Blueberry wrote:

*Accepting this as a solution for increased visibility*

Thank you for continuing to add first and last name combinations to this list. We've been passing these along to the team that's reviewing them in the profanity filter. The names you see in game on players that are showing up as profane during a name creation is due to that the profanity filter being used is different from the coding of the game as far as I'm aware, so we're working to improve this filter moving forward. We have a team actively reviewing the names being posted here to be removed from the filter if appropriate.

I know some of these names showing up as profane are clearly not profane, I'm there with you. Sadly, we live in a time where there is an increased amount of toxicity in games and EA is taking a step to combat that for the gaming community. We apologize if your name was deemed profane and all I can ask as a Forum Community Manager is to post it here so I can help the team be aware of this in the event it can be rectified. 


Please post the first and last name you're attempting to use in-game that is being flagged as profane so we can send it over to the team for review. We've actually seen some players fix this by filling out the last name first, then entering in the first name.

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@jollbert2 

We need to raise this to the team. Can you let me know what first and last name you're using?

If that is the first name it's being flagged as profane, try entering in the last name and then try using it as the first name. Some players are reporting that works get around being flagged. 

Evan Sullinger isn’t working

Hi the name "Seena" comes up as profane for fifa and madden 21 i would like to request it be removed from that list.

don’t know if you are still fixing these but my name is literally in the game and gets flagged. it’s dixon. the thing that got me was i faced a qb w the same last name in FoF and there are people in nfl w the name

I don’t kno who idea it was for EA to restrict certain names, but that’s the dumbest idea every. My name is Willie with and IE at the end. You have to have the dirtiest mind to banned my first name. Look EA hire me, I can come up wit all the dumb * ideas y’all need. Y’all paying people to come up with dumb ideas half of them have nothing to do with the actual game itself. Please fix ASAP 

My name is Orlando Tirado, i can’t use my name or my nickname Papito or Píto, why are they labeled offensive?  This is ridiculous 

So all of a sudden my name - Vince Pettit is being flagged as profane!? 

Binger is profane after 20 years? It’s unacceptable not even close to profane 

Add “Diktanas” to this list for Madden 22. Literally was never an issue until Madden 22. It’s also really bizarre to me that the filters are there for an offline Franchise mode.

I rarely ever play online, just Face of the Franchise and Franchise modes. Why does it matter if it’s offline? 

This is Madden 22, but add Simpson to last names you can’t use

Cowey,Keith

My last name is Belanger and it says thats profane. Is EA hating on the French? Can you please fix this?

Full name is Brian Belanger