Name wipes and other things
So I haven't played maple in a few months or so.
I came back and decided to try playing reboot again. I played it for a while on release and got bored fairly quickly.
I'm sitting on the character creation screen trying to think of a name. On a whim I type in my characters name from 10+ years ago. Lo and behold it accepts my name!
I am absolutely baffled. After the name wipe that happened a while back I was no longer able to use that name. It kept telling me that I couldn't use it rather than "that name is already in use".
I would occasionally attempt to use the name on a whim as I did today. Of course always the same "You cannot use that name" message.
TL;DR: I got my old name that the game wouldn't allow me to use before.
Have the restrictions been slacked up on and I missed that or something?
(Also this is a big deal for me. What class/world should my character be on? I'm stacked in Scania but I'm bored there. Reboot?)
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@helpingly: "ping"
@skecchi: ikr? I thought it was probably the "help" part since some games don't want people to go around impersonating actual mods and in game helpers, but I doubt that that is the case.
You also cant use that name if its the same as your login ID
@helpingly: I don't even see what would be censored in your name. I know it was the ecchi part of my name of course.
You know what, for the longest time that was happening to my name was well.
I tried to change my character's name to "Helpingly" both before and after the name wipe and I got the same message.
Then my friend tried to get it on a whim and it worked. Strange stuff.
Nexon changed their censorship a few months ago making new words available for use, perhaps before the censorship was more strict than waaay back then.
Nexon made no announcement of their censorship change on the website, just saw a thread in the forums and subreddit.
Words such as Gay, Torpedo, and Blow can be used.
That message only shows up whenever there is a censored word in the name or if one of the Nexon staff is also using that name.
Or they didn't update it for some reason so that it doesn't register that there's a character with that name (since it is wiped, there wasn't).