Recently, an article titled: “Riot is forcing me to change my name due to Coronavirus” has become a hotly discussed post on the Reddit forum because of its interesting and somewhat … difficult content. change my name due to Coronavirus
The owner of the post shared the story of the struggle to keep the nick-name League of Legends attached to him for 6 years, after being arrested by Riot because this nick-name coincided with … the name of the virus strain caused the Covid-19: Coronavirus pandemic.
Riot is forcing me to change my name due to Coronavirus.
Hey all,
So I will try to keep this anonymous as possible, though it’s quite hard given my current situation. I’ve been playing League of Legends for 6 years under the alias Squid Corona – squids are my favourite animal and Corona, believe it or not, is my real life surname.
As I’m sure everyone is well aware, there is a global pandemic called COVID-19 or, as very inconveniently for me, better known as Coronavirus. Trust me, I’ve heard all the jokes possible from friends and co-workers.
At the start of 2019 I managed to change my in-game name to just “Corona” as I thought the shorter version of my name was nicer, worked well with telling my real life friends to add me on League, as they all know it’s my surname and I think Corona is a cool name so why not have just that. I had to use one of those third party sites to check the name and stay up till midnight in order to secure my family name in League (as a side note, Riot should really consider implementing a bot-detect system to stop name sniping).
I’m by most descriptions a casual player – I play one or two games a day of normal draft pick, almost always with friends just as a way of relaxing after work. On the 1st of April, I try to login to be greeted with a message telling me I need to change my name in order to proceed. I thought it was amusing at first, as almost every game a player would say in chat “nice name” to me, but I just shrugged my shoulders and emailed Riot in the hopes of them agreeing that it was a funny situation, and my name would be white-listed.
After two weeks of back and forth with multiple “Player Support Specialists”, I was told that they had come to the conclusion that my name would not get white-listed and that I would have to change it if I wanted to keep playing League of Legends. This is specially stupid since in other regions, players with the name Corona are still active and playing.
This to me is all very disappointing. I haven’t chosen the name “Corona” for any reason, and certainly haven’t done it during the covid-19 outbreak. I feel like Riot are just sticking a big middle finger to me and telling me that my family name is inappropriate to be a part of their game. I’m posting this to reddit because I want to know if the community really feels offended by the summoner name “Corona”, or if I’m right in feeling a mild rage and sense of unfairness.
This guy said, I’ve been playing League of Legends for 6 years, and during that time, he always used the nick-name Squid Corona. Squid is the favourite animal of this player, and Corona is … His real name in real life.
In early 2019, this gamer bought the renamed Corona card for more brevity. And there was nothing to say until the COVID-19 pandemic broke out. This disease is caused by Coronavirus, and ironically, the Corona gamer has the same name as this virus.
Since then, Corona has become the name of the attention in the game, in every match, the guy receives comments from both teammates and opponents such as: impressive name, good name too .. .
More “pain” than some players also reported him because he thought that this gamer was using the disease as a joke, and eventually, Riot Games sent a notice telling him to change his account name, citing the name not suitable.
Corona does not accept this, because this is not simply a change of nick-name, but also his real name, so accepting a request to change the name is like he is denying his family.
During the 2 weeks, this gamer spoke to Riot Games’ Player Support, and always received the answer: “You have to change your name if you want to continue playing League of Legends.”
Extremely frustrated, he had to go to Reddit to “confide in” and ask for help from the community. He even criticized Riot Games that they were doing so as if they were insulting the name that belonged to his family, and Corona really felt offended because of that.
Not only complaining on Reddit, this guy also shared that he wrote a series of letters to Riot in the hope that they would allow him to keep this name.
Fortunately, Riot Games has finally responded, whereby nick-name Squid Corona will be kept intact and not forced to change its name.
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The unfinished story above has attracted the great attention of the gaming community when it attracted more than 2700 comments on Reddit. It is true that the plague is not a joke, but anyone who hears the story of this unlucky guy must laugh
Information From: Reddit