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JoJo's Bizarre Name Censor

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  • KensamaofmariKensamaofmari
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    Sebastian wrote: »
    The ticket was last updated yesterday although no actual message was included.

    Am confusion.

    Oh great an encrypted response.
    Sebastian
  • CatheCathe
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    My entirely uneducated guess is that it's because "Zeni" is Japanese for "Money". There are a lot of odd terms that got blocked because they are slang in other languages. And others than make no sense. I believe for the longest time "bastard" was a no no despite there being a "Bastard Sword" in the game.

    My guess is maybe it had to do with knocking out a common RMT term in a name? I dunno. I haven't had coffee today yet.
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  • SebastianSebastian
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    Cathe wrote: »
    My entirely uneducated guess is that it's because "Zeni" is Japanese for "Money". There are a lot of odd terms that got blocked because they are slang in other languages. And others than make no sense. I believe for the longest time "bastard" was a no no despite there being a "Bastard Sword" in the game.

    My guess is maybe it had to do with knocking out a common RMT term in a name? I dunno. I haven't had coffee today yet.

    I thought that might be the case as well, but other names including currency are currently in use by characters (Dollar and Peso were my examples earlier in the thread, iirc)
  • Gaby5011Gaby5011
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    edited March 3, 2020
    Cathe wrote: »
    My entirely uneducated guess is that it's because "Zeni" is Japanese for "Money". There are a lot of odd terms that got blocked because they are slang in other languages. And others than make no sense. I believe for the longest time "bastard" was a no no despite there being a "Bastard Sword" in the game.

    My guess is maybe it had to do with knocking out a common RMT term in a name? I dunno. I haven't had coffee today yet.

    Reminds me, I once tried telling a friend I was going in the shower, in French. Now the French word for shower is "douche". Different pronunciation of course. It kept getting censored in game and, at the time, I didn't understand why (English is our 2nd language). Made for a pretty funny moment trying to spell shower in two sentences. "I'm gonna go in the sho *enter* wer"

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    Sherri
  • KensamaofmariKensamaofmari
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    Wait zeni is money in Japanese? I thought kane or okane was money.
  • SebastianSebastian
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    Update to the ticket 20 minutes ago, no message once again
  • CrimsọnCrimsọn
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    edited March 4, 2020
    Sebastian wrote: »
    Update to the ticket 20 minutes ago, no message once again

    MOCNiiS
  • SebastianSebastian
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    edited March 4, 2020
    Crims wrote: »
    Sebastian wrote: »
    Update to the ticket 20 minutes ago, no message once again

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    Really don't know what takes so long to confirm a names' validity. Guessing it's taking the team a while to figure out why it was actually censored.
  • KensamaofmariKensamaofmari
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    Someone with Alexa should ask it and see what happens.
  • SebastianSebastian
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    Someone with Alexa should ask it and see what happens.

    Mine spontaneously combusted
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  • KensamaofmariKensamaofmari
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    Sebastian wrote: »
    Someone with Alexa should ask it and see what happens.

    Mine spontaneously combusted

    RIP
  • CrimsọnCrimsọn
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  • HabimaruHabimaru
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    Both mean money but the Z-version is mostly pre-World-War usage... more info here if you can read Russian...
    Or German (Deutsch) or Swedish (Svenska) or Japanese (日本語) or Chinese (中文). No, there isn't an English-language entry for this one.
    Wait zeni is money in Japanese? I thought kane or okane was money.
  • SebastianSebastian
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    edited March 4, 2020
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    They updated the reason, lol. And my ticket still hasn't been replied to. I guess that's Nexon for you. Unless they're "saving" it for me now (which I highly doubt) it seems they just changed their reasoning rather than properly explaining why to me. Livid.
    Sherri
  • Gaby5011Gaby5011
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  • EraleaEralea
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    Ooooh

    They've got a secret reason for blocking the name

    Now I'm even more curious tbh
  • SebastianSebastian
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    Eralea wrote: »
    Ooooh

    They've got a secret reason for blocking the name

    Now I'm even more curious tbh

    Yeah, especially if they have to go and change the whole pop-up for it.

    ...at least I can say I've had some sort of influence over Nexon changing things?
  • GretaGreta
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    A GM liked this name and reserved it before you.
    CrimsọnHabimaruSherri
  • CrimsọnCrimsọn
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    Sebastian wrote: »
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    They updated the reason, lol. And my ticket still hasn't been replied to. I guess that's Nexon for you. Unless they're "saving" it for me now (which I highly doubt) it seems they just changed their reasoning rather than properly explaining why to me. Livid.

    Wait wait wait. Let's see what happens during this maintenance.
  • SebastianSebastian
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    edited March 5, 2020
    Crims wrote: »
    Sebastian wrote: »
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    They updated the reason, lol. And my ticket still hasn't been replied to. I guess that's Nexon for you. Unless they're "saving" it for me now (which I highly doubt) it seems they just changed their reasoning rather than properly explaining why to me. Livid.

    Wait wait wait. Let's see what happens during this maintenance.

    Pretty sure nothing. If something were going to happen they likely would've addressed it in my ticket.

    I also can't even reach the support site when logged in on my laptop, only on my phone.