Just got back on the game after receiving a 7 day ban for my name. Wondering how long I have to stay as Joe Nhl before I can actually change my name. However reading others issues I'm assuming it's a perma-ban.
@PlayoffError wrote:
@EA_AljoThey did and got no reply.
'Lemmy Kilmister' and 'Scrum Master' were both apparently actionable names. No explanation why or response to appeals.
It's certainly not obvious to my teammate or anybody else I've asked what about those names are offensive.
The first one might be considered, not offensive, but rather impersonation. It is also impersonation of someone inexplicably obsessed with Nazi imagery.
The latter - I'm not sure how it would violate any policies, but why would someone want to go by that name? It clearly isn't an actual person's name unless Elon Musk is the father.
I received a three day ban for my name. I received one warning that I didn’t even know about until the actual ban. Second email was to tell me I was banned. At the bottom of this email it says it can be cumulative.
Sooo how do I change my name so I don’t get banned moving forward?? Or is my name permanent and I just hope I don’t embarrass anyone else so they complain about it again??
I disputed the ban but obviously it was an auto populated email returned saying the ban was justified. But it truly wasn’t.
Community ManagerThose responses aren't done by a bot. Someone from ToS investigated your account again and denied to lift the sanction due to breaking our rules on offensive content. While the email isn't personalized, it does come from a real person. Unfortunately, your name will need to remain as Joe NHL on NHL 22.
I was told by EA support that if I wanted to be able to change my name from Joe NHL that I would have to change my gamer tag and then it would unlock. Is this correct or did this support person not know what they were talking about?
I may get banned for this comment … but it’s usually not obvious why it was banned. Why is Karl Childers offensive ?
Amen!!!!
Community ManagerMost likely because child is in the name.
So after human review this should have been caught. Childers is actually a common last name. EA is going to lose a lot of people if this stuff keeps up. Getting a little out of hand to be honest.
EA has some voice overs when you hit people that straight up sound like curses … I would say that is more offensive. At what point does it stop? Maybe people find some of the jersey icons offensive like
axes and “roosters”…
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the filters make no sense and this snowflake game is turning alot of people away. Honestly rather have a drop down list of allowed names so we can focus on playing the game instead of getting banned
Edit: Removed inappropriate content. -CM
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