News · launch · updated 2026-10-28

Name reservation: overly strict filter, Oceanic RP ordering bug

Names containing "con" were refused until regional restarts; Australian servers needed RP and RP-PvP characters created before Normal or PvP ones.

Blizzard acknowledged the two-name filter was rejecting ordinary names, including any containing "con", and fixed it after each region's realm restart. The Oceanic data servers also had an ordering bug: create Roleplay and Roleplay-PvP characters before Normal or PvP ones.

Reservation ran 27 October to 3 November for pack holders, three characters per account across all rulesets. First and last name pairs must be unique per region.

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