Some People Who Paid for WoW Forever Name Reservation Couldn't Reserve Their Name Due to a Weird Bug
After the World of Warcraft Forever beta ended last week, Blizzard opened up the servers to character creation in order to allow players who bought one of the Skyborne packs to reserve their names. But a lot of people were falsely given a "restricted" message when they tried to reserve their name.
Recently, players who purchased the WoW Forever Skyborne packs encountered difficulties reserving their desired names due to a technical issue. Blizzard had launched the character creation servers following the beta's conclusion to facilitate these name reservations. However, many found themselves facing a "restricted" message, even after the initial disruption.
Community manager Kaivax clarified the problem, revealing that an erroneous name filter was incorrectly blocking names containing 'c-o-n'. This led to the unintentional restriction of names containing common terms like 'nurse'. While some players successfully reserved their names, others continued to experience issues. Despite this overzealous name filter, Blizzard has since fixed the bug, and the affected names should now be reserving without problems.
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