In response to customer concerns about abusive or vulgar names on the North American Lineage servers, effective Tuesday, October 16th, any new characters created with names deemed to be offensive or vulgar will be deleted without question. Additionally, existing accounts with offensive or vulgar named characters will be temporarily suspended. We will be offering a one-time amnesty period for those characters created prior to Tuesday, October 16th.
If your account contains an offensive or vulgar named character, the account will be temporarily suspended on October 16th. Affected account owners will receive an email stating that the account has been suspended for this reason and offering a name change opportunity. To take advantage of this opportunity, respond to the email with three possible unique name choices. We will then check each of these names to see if they are available and will change your character name to the first available option. Please note: if all three character names are not available, we will rename the character with the first character name, appending a number to the end. Once the character has been renamed appropriately, the account suspension will be lifted and access to the game will be returned.
Remember, this amnesty period applies only to those characters created prior to October 16th. Characters created with offensive or vulgar names after this date will be deleted, and the account may be appropriately penalized. Characters that undergo name changes during the amnesty period will not lose items or stats due to the change.
The Lineage User Agreement specifically states that "You may not select as your Character Name the name of another person, or a name which violates any third party's trademark right, copyright, or other proprietary right, or which may mislead other Members to believe you to be an employee of NC Interactive, or which NC Interactive deems in its discretion to be vulgar or otherwise offensive. NC Interactive reserves the right to delete, or alter any vulgar or otherwise offensive Character Name."
If you do not receive an email stating that your account has been suspended due to an inappropriate character name and you think that your character might still have an inappropriate name please email support@ncinteractive.com and place "Character name" in the subject line.
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