Seriously WG? renaming a user because he has weed in his name...

Laatikkomafia, on 19 March 2019 - 05:48 PM, said: Should I be afraid? 


arthurwellsley, on 19 March 2019 - 06:16 PM, said:   In 2012, Wargaming's revenue was declared to be 217.9 million Euro, with a net profit of 6.1 million Euro.[22] Wargaming's shares were delisted from the Cyprus Stock Excahnge in 2015, and it remains a privately held company.   Frankly for a company that makes a six million profit on a two hundred and seventeen million turnover, WG can afford to spend more on customer support. I note when I go to the WG jobs page that WG are advertising Customer Support jobs in Minsk = https://wargaming.co...vacancy_995066/ I cannot speak the language so do not know how much the pay is for the Minsk job. Nor do I know where the English Speaking Customer Support is situated. Lets just assume it is Cyprus where the average yearly income is 21,936 euros (see https://tradingecono...om/cyprus/wages) and unemployment is averaging between 7-16%. If WG spent another 500,000 euros they could add another 16 or 17 CS agents to the payroll. With one million euros the number of new agents would double.   It is time WG spent more on CS so that each agent could spend more time assessing tickets and then issues such as EmeraldWeeds name would not end in a ban. 


Verblonde, on 19 March 2019 - 09:03 PM, said:   So we're letting Google define what words mean nowadays? I have a pretty low threshold for getting (mildly) annoyed by offensive nicknames in game - comes with being an old git - and I have to say Emerald's was pretty mild - surely you guys have better things to do than to mess about with accounts whose names call to mind (well to me, anyway) plants, possibly Irish ones, or perhaps a character from Molesworth ("weeds and wets" )? If you look at a reputable source for definitions of words' meanings (like the Oxford dictionary, rather than Google), the Cannabis usage is one of several associated meanings, and certainly not the primary one.   Presumably, to change said name from RenamedUser_xxxx will require gold? A cynic might think that WG might have an ulterior motive for hair-trigger name changing...?  


Laatikkomafia, on 19 March 2019 - 09:20 PM, said: Googling eekeeboo, this comes up:   A plane being flown in World of Warplanes.   I find that highly offensive.   Memeing and joking aside. I honestly think that if a name isn't directly offensive, like GetAID.. GetAssistances, AdolfWasCorrect and so on, they shouldn't be censored. ESRB has rated WoT for Teens. But as with every online game, "Online Interactions Not Rated by the ESRB (PC)"