Yesterday we ran into a big issue as we were informed by many known players, that their names were not available anymore.
As we researched, we found 4 players who purposely created all these names on their accounts. This was not a coincidence or done by not knowing and we consider this grief play.
2 of these players were on probation and have failed to comply. The other 2 will receive time bans.
Those names in question can contact us on discord and we will release the names to the player.
Generally, we ask everyone to be an “adult” and create and use your names and do not try to impersonate someone else. It is not fair to the community and not fair to the server. We want everyone to enjoy Phoenix. If you feel that you might have blocked a name on purpose to harm someone, please release it.
We have received many PM’s but we can’t resolve all of them as most are very generic names. Some cases will be looked at individually, but please understand that we can't act in every case.
Note however that if someone is actively playing a "stolen" name that we won't intervene, we will only act in cases of obvious griefing: people that have reserved many different "known" names
The main reason we got involved was because these names were found on 4 specific accounts.
Also note, that these decisions were and will be made as a team and we do not tolerate personal threats to single staff members.
Example of the names we found yesterday:
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As we researched, we found 4 players who purposely created all these names on their accounts. This was not a coincidence or done by not knowing and we consider this grief play.
2 of these players were on probation and have failed to comply. The other 2 will receive time bans.
Those names in question can contact us on discord and we will release the names to the player.
Generally, we ask everyone to be an “adult” and create and use your names and do not try to impersonate someone else. It is not fair to the community and not fair to the server. We want everyone to enjoy Phoenix. If you feel that you might have blocked a name on purpose to harm someone, please release it.
We have received many PM’s but we can’t resolve all of them as most are very generic names. Some cases will be looked at individually, but please understand that we can't act in every case.
Note however that if someone is actively playing a "stolen" name that we won't intervene, we will only act in cases of obvious griefing: people that have reserved many different "known" names
The main reason we got involved was because these names were found on 4 specific accounts.
Also note, that these decisions were and will be made as a team and we do not tolerate personal threats to single staff members.
Example of the names we found yesterday:
[attachment=2]toons1.png[/attachment]
[attachment=1]toons2.png[/attachment]
[attachment=0]toons3.png[/attachment]