Special Characters

Blizz has made the announcment that, upon the launch of 4.3, they will no longer allow special characters in names.  there has been some complaints, but most are in favor of this change, per reaction in the forums, of course.  but i can understand why.  there are people who use this feature to find a name that is already taken, not for the purpose of scamming, but simply because they want that name themselves.  the current system in wow does not allow multiples of the same names in the same server.  perhaps a surname would solve this issue.

but people would change one or two characters in their names to be special characters.  i understand the use of this completely.  my hunter, Burlésque, and my rogue, Brunö have these special characters because someone already took the original names.  anyone with a pulse will ignore the accents and pronouce my character's names without the accents.  those who argue about accents are just grasping at straws.  what i dont understand, and do not condone, are those who use special characters over and over again. it's not that special and gets quite annoying, really.  one example i have for you is shown below.  i was looking for my warrior's armory (on Ysondre) and found abuse. 

This is why special characters will no longer be allowed:

checking further, this is a level 25 alliance guild with 980 members.  nine. hundred. eighty.

Now, i understand if maybe they used all those characters to denote that even the name of the guild is "chaotic" but i doubt that.  even then, it is an eyesore and a total abuse of a system. take advantage of the "unenforced" naming policy long enough and we'll slowly get repercussions. 

Again, i have no issues with people changing one letter in their name because the original name is taken. blizz has made a concession for that and knows that there might be some abuse.  however, with the above name, that abuse gets way out of control.  Now looking at the members of the guild, i see very few with special characters.  even the guild leader's name doesnt have special characters.  but as a whole, the guild bugs me very slightly.  very slightly enough to forget this post next week.  but for those on Perenolde, and for those who might be in the Cyclone battlegroup, there may be a lot of /sigh when a member of the above guild is spotted.