Hmm, how nice to hear that after coming back from a ceremony about that.

Lost most of my family there from my father's side.
The only two people who survived were my grandmother and her mother, out of 12 family members.
I find this extremely offensive and I would like CCP to either ban him or change his name.

I don't understand why theres so much hype these days over things that happened about 70 years ago. What the ***** did was terrible yes, but theres a point where people have to move on. If I were to name my character based off any of the major empires that have risen and fallen in the last thousand years (which have no doubt also performed terrible deeds as well), would I get this much flak for it??

For example.... if I named myself "Vlad the Impaler" Would I get reported because my name is the same as a king who, for pleasure, had massive spikes plowed through people while they were still alive?? In my opinion the brutality showed between both the ***** and vlad were on a similar level, yet I doubt I would get in trouble for using vlad as a name.

In fact the only difference these days is that people have a few grandparents/ great grandparents who "lived when it happened" but that's kind of a mute point anyway because I doubt anyone who is 70 and older is actually playing this game to begin with. So what then? its offensive to jews? I mean I guess you can justify that but again I want to just tell me to to "move on"......

70 years is not that long.
And the main reason people cling is because there are people alive who lived through it.
I know some people who have the mark N-a-z-i's put on them.
There are thousands of people like that, not just 10, 20, or 200.
There have been barely a few generations between then and now.

There's also a massive difference between vague and inconsistent stories of a centuries old historical figure's antics which can't be verified other than what someone wrote or painted (i.e., citation needed!), and events that occurred in living memory which involve gruesome war crimes.

Notice how this thread turned into ''I'm a jew, pity me''?

There are 5500 Africans dying everyday. That's 2 millions a year. 14 million in 7 years. And it's happening NOW.

It turned into that because the offence was relevant to the holocaust. Perhaps you should be more sensitive?

I hope they have someone looking over what people name there mercs because some is just WRONG.
Like the one is just saw in game.

party at Auschwitz


Do you really find this name okey???

To the people crying censorship: Don't pretend that a name invoking the holocaust wasn't meant to offend, and nothing more. Making a toon name like that isn't starting a real discussion on the subject, and this isn't Naked Lunch or Ulysses we're talking about.

Could you please rephrase that somehow?
I don't understand what you mean.

I don't understand why theres so much hype these days over things that happened about 70 years ago. What the ***** did was terrible yes, but theres a point where people have to move on. If I were to name my character based off any of the major empires that have risen and fallen in the last thousand years (which have no doubt also performed terrible deeds as well), would I get this much flak for it??

For example.... if I named myself "Vlad the Impaler" Would I get reported because my name is the same as a king who, for pleasure, had massive spikes plowed through people while they were still alive?? In my opinion the brutality showed between both the ***** and vlad were on a similar level, yet I doubt I would get in trouble for using vlad as a name.

In fact the only difference these days is that people have a few grandparents/ great grandparents who "lived when it happened" but that's kind of a mute point anyway because I doubt anyone who is 70 and older is actually playing this game to begin with. So what then? its offensive to jews? I mean I guess you can justify that but again I want to just tell me to to "move on"......

I hope they have someone looking over what people name there mercs because some is just WRONG.
Like the one is just saw in game.

party at Auschwitz


Do you really find this name okey???

You must be from USA...

But I stand firmly against all **** behavior, such as censorship.

Anyone who is saying HTFU should probably know we do take action against people who have offensive names. Please report them through our support mechanisms and we'll deal with them.

Why are you getting your panties in a bunch over people wanting to do something about it?

Lol why are you getting your panties in a bunch over me getting mine in a bunch? My serious answer is because it's a bunch of whining. You start with names because someone finds something offensive and end up with a game where unicorns throws marshmellows at each other because otherwise FPS promotes violence. I don't want you or anyone else impose restrictions on what I can name my character.

I think there is some reason to be upset over a name like that, especially if you were a Jew or had family members who went through that. Like if someone had the name Sandy Hook playground, or That Columbine Kid. Most people around the world wouldn't get the names, but to suggest that the names weren't meant to stir the pot is ludicrous.

And if you are not a Jew. Would that be ok then? If ppl who were gassed there not only Jews vs only Jews vs just ppl of an unspecified nationality. Would that make any difference to you from a moral stand point? You think most ppl around the world would not know this one of the biggest atrocities perpetrated in human history? I don't even know if I should call this shortsighted or ignorant.

Some scholars argue that the mass murder of the Romani and people with disabilities should be included in the definition,[9][10] and some use the common noun "holocaust" to describe other **** mass murders, including those of Soviet prisoners of war, Polish and Soviet civilians, and homosexuals.[11][12] Recent estimates based on figures obtained since the fall of the Soviet Union indicates some ten to eleven million civilians and prisoners of war were intentionally murdered by the **** regime.[13][14]

Lol why are you getting your panties in a bunch over me getting mine in a bunch? My serious answer is because it's a bunch of whining. You start with names because someone finds something offensive and end up with a game where unicorns throws marshmellows at each other because otherwise FPS promotes violence. I don't want you or anyone else impose restrictions on what I can name my character.

Jewish people were not the only people killed there on an industrial scale, there were others too.



Just in case you wanted to read the whole article.

The Holocaust

Wow, just ******* wow, I inform you of something that is legitimately a policy of CCPs and you go off on a tantrum. I'm not even going to bother attempting to reason with you.

In closing though, you should really lrn2quote.

I meant that

A) those kind of names in particular are only meant to offend. Usually "censorship", in a broader sense, is associated with stifling ideas or discourse. This simply isn't the case here because there is no discourse going on, it's just a name someone picked to see who he could rile up.

B) a username is not in the same category of speech as, for example, literature. Both of the books I mentioned have been censored/banned in various locales, and were later defended on the grounds of having artistic merit (the basis of the US and UK court decisions, at least). Somebody's username is not something you can seriously argue a defence of on those grounds.

You must be from USA...

But I stand firmly against all **** behavior, such as censorship.

Lol why are you getting your panties in a bunch over me getting mine in a bunch? My serious answer is because it's a bunch of whining. You start with names because someone finds something offensive and end up with a game where unicorns throws marshmellows at each other because otherwise FPS promotes violence. I don't want you or anyone else impose restrictions on what I can name my character.

When you create a game, you can name your character whatever you want, but this is not your game, this is CCP's game, and if they find that your name could be offensive to others, then they have the right to change it as they see fit.

You can call it whining, but the facts are that somebody chose that name with either the intention to offend, or to promote offensive views, and therefore broke CCP's rules. CCP can decide whether they actually do something about it or not.

Edit: Also, I have a pantie fetish

I actually played a few rounds with Party at Auschwitz, it was just an alt character. The next day, his alt and main got kicked from my corp after an argument that broke out from the alt's name. Sadly, he was a real team player with excellent leadership qualities and would make a good squad leader. Hope he learned his lesson at least....