Wanna be a GAY5n1p3r? Dunno if you can...

[�io]

Originally posted by Vimp
This sorta thing always makes me laugh.
He we are in a supposedly tolerant era and yet something that people claim is ok, is actually controversial when spoken. In other words if being a homosexual isn't ethicly wrong then why is the whole world having such a hard time using these terms? Because it is ethicly wrong! Thus the controversy.

Because using BigGaySniper as your name in game isn't because you are gay but simply because using the word is cool or rebelious and bla bla bla. There's probably like 0.00001% of people using gay in their name that actually are. Same for saying "Man that guy is gay", it's wrong simply because it implies that gay is an insult.

[TheJrade]

I'm going to have to go with Kiwi on this one... GEEZ, just find another fraggin' name already!

Look at it from Sony's POV, there are people who really will not play, i.e. pay for, the game (or let their kids play the game) if people can have that kind of stuff in there. But really, is some 13-year-old who gets stymied on the character creation screen and can't have "chickenfucker" as a name really going to throw down his mouse (and credit card) in protest? Heck no, he's going to play as "chickenlover" and find some other way to be offensive and annoying.

Avast ye, I'll have to break out my Ultima Online cutl@$$!

[Airlift]

Damnit, my game name was going to be slutfuckingbitchwhore

[Lexington_Steele]

What happened to PunchyMcnuggests?

[mikkyT]

MrVicchio in the UK ****** = kinda like a meatball, and you can still buy "******* and mash" from the supermarket.

Hey, anyone for ******* and mash? I got a frozen ready meal in the freezer!

Imagine that product being out in the US, hello lawsuit bye bye supermarket chain.

[Destroyeron]

I'm quite sure they'll figure out some way to keep the names mostly clean and acceptable.

[echoghost]

And, even outside the dangerous word issue, BigGayAl would violate the copyright rule that you can expect to show up in the naming policy.