Cryptic serious about character names

Well,  I created a character called Dr. Manhattan he was blue and destroyed everything and had a very dettached personality.  I went to log into today and he had a very interesting name.  The pictures speak more for themselves. Read more to see them.

Kind of a funny name on the log in screen wouldn’t ya think?  The second picture has what happens when I goto log into the character.

Notice the big rename button at the bottom?. So like I said.  Cryptic’s naming policy states to not use a copyrighted name because they WILL make you change it.  I knew the risk I was taking and full on expected my character name to be changed.  Just so that we all know what the naming policies are for CO I thought I would quote Cryptic’s naming policy.

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To ensure that Champions Online is a fun, fair, and safe environment, there are a few basic guidelines that all users are required to abide by in-game when choosing names.

Character Name, Handle, and Super Group Names May Not:

Be designed to impersonate a real life individual or entity

Be the name of any Atari or Cryptic Studios product, character, or employee (This includes Cryptic Game Masters)

Incorporate vulgar, obscene, hateful, defamatory language or imagery

Be derogatory towards racial, ethnical, cultural background, or sexual orientation

Incorporate the name or image of a religious figure or deity

Incorporate any form religious title (i.e. “The Lord”, “Rabbi”)

Relate to illegal drugs or activities

Be nonsensical or gibberish (“asdlkfj” or “Jkljkl”)

Advertise any form of website, product, or service

Comprised of partial or complete sentences (e.g., “Welovechicken”)

Be the registered property of any other company

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Champions Online offers an incredibly customizable character/costume creator. However, with great power comes great responsibility. We understand that you may want to emulate, mimic or create a copy of your favorite super hero’s costume; we ask you be aware of the following guidelines when creating your champion.

While Creating your Champion’s Costume:

You may not create costumes or costume/name combinations that are recognizable as the registered property of any company. (This includes things such as: comics, anime, movies, or video games.)

When creating costume combinations, you may not create the illusion or appearance that you are indecent, obscene, or nude. (We know superheroes can be scantily clad, but they are always appropriately covered.)

If characters are found in violation of this policy it may lead to disciplinary actions against the offending account. This could include suspension from the game or possibly account termination. Any character name or name/costume combinations which are against Cryptic’s Policy will be changed by Cryptic Support Staff.

For the full legal documentation of this policy, please see the Rules of Conduct and our Terms of Use

I highlight the portion I was violating.  This was all taken directly from Champions-Online site.  So if you want to name your character after another superhero.  Don’t it will eventually get changed it only took them 3 days to catch this one.  Now my question is if it was seen by a GM or if it was a filtering script that caught.  But if you ever want to see me in game I will be the Light green guy called Dr. New Jersey.