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Subject: Suggestions for Service Tags that Should be BLOCKED

You don't kick a man when they're down, so don't teabag me when I'm dead!

Okay, most of us are aware that Halo 3 ODST allows you to write a four-character service tag with numbers and letters.
I'm not aware of any restrictions to number placement/letter placement and is they can only be placed in certain character slots (for example, character slot 3 could have to be a number).

This is NOT the place to call dibs on your own awesome tag or suggest tag ideas or whatever. Go here for that pl0x.

Okay, let's take a step back: have you ever tried to make your service tag in Halo 3 something like "p00"? If you have, you'll get an error message informing you that the particular tag you're trying to claim as your own is "reserved by the UNSC". I'm assuming it's Bungie's way of saying "you can't have that one".

But now Bungie are making the four-character tags, there must be some restrictions laid down. Or everyone will have things like "S117", "L33T", "DICK", "H0M0", etc.

So this is the place to suggest your ideas for service tags that should be "reserved for the UNSC"



My Suggestions

- Anything that shows up as -blam!- on this site
- dick, wang, or any phallic terms
- Any terms describing any genitals, or any immature thoughts such as bumholes, pubic hair, big arses etc.
- Other game references that Bungie didn't make (e.g. COD4, FOZA, GOW2, LBP1)
- Things that are meant to be insults, such as M0F0, N00B etc. (although the word would appear above your head along with an arrow pointing to you, so maybe we should leave this one...)
- Things that refer to the game (e.g. ODST, DARE, JOHN, ROOK etc.)
- Memes, such as LAWL, ROFL, PWND, NOYU etc.

Also, if Bungie are blocking things, please guys, block them in every case, and every adaption of letter spellings and other ways to get around the block (remember, ODST can be spelt as 0D57, OD57, 0DS7, ODS7, 0D5T etc.)



Reply with your own ones that you think should be "reserved for the UNSC", and debate whether my own suggestions are feasible.

[Edited on 08.02.2009 3:03 AM PDT]

  • 08.02.2009 3:02 AM PDT

-blam!-

  • 08.02.2009 3:03 AM PDT
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NO GROUP INVITES!!!

Very good suggestions. I hope Bungie has either thought this already or notices this.

  • 08.02.2009 3:06 AM PDT
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I say they will just disable things such as swear words. but anything else, should, and just might as well be fair game to use. I see no point in blocking out most of what you listed.

  • 08.02.2009 3:07 AM PDT
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I see it's pointless.
Because when your trying to call your teammate and you don't know thier GT you'll be calling him swear words. e.g "Hey F U C K get over here and help me out."
So evetually they won't like it,
But... then again it's a good point. I hate it when they don't take the game seriously.

  • 08.02.2009 3:14 AM PDT
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ROBOHOG IS VERY BRILLIANT AND STUFF.

I don't see why it matters. So some kid has bought the game and decided to be REALLY funny and original by making a crude word out of his service tag. Big deal. This has zero percent negative effect on anything in the game, and while some people might take offense to the immature but otherwise harmless action, that's their problem. And they really ought to just deal with it.

But while it makes sense to block the swear words, I see no reason to block anything else you just listed. Who's really going to give a crap about some dude running around a game with LAWL or OD5T over his head?

No anger or hostility intended. I'm merely stating my opinion on the matter. This should be obvious to most people, but members of bungie.net seem to get worked up if somebody disagrees with them.


[Edited on 08.02.2009 3:18 AM PDT]

  • 08.02.2009 3:16 AM PDT

Do you get to pick if you want it to be 3 or 4 letters long?

  • 08.02.2009 3:19 AM PDT

I wish I was still legendary.

swear words and racial terms that could fit into that like [NIG@] or others. beyond that, there's not really anything that needs to be blocked IMO.

  • 08.02.2009 3:21 AM PDT
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f0CK

  • 08.02.2009 3:22 AM PDT

You don't kick a man when they're down, so don't teabag me when I'm dead!

Okay, I should really say that most of the ones I listed also break the XBL Terms of Use.

I'm not trying to be a killjoy...

  • 08.02.2009 3:30 AM PDT
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ha you should be randomly assigned one, keeping them as unique as possible

  • 08.02.2009 3:39 AM PDT

You don't kick a man when they're down, so don't teabag me when I'm dead!

Posted by: MarkyB
ha you should be randomly assigned one, keeping them as unique as possible

That's actually a really good idea...

  • 08.02.2009 5:09 AM PDT