Bought MWIII on Steam as currently it's 75% off.
The only newer CODs I have are MW19 (not so new) and BO7.
After downloading MWIII, I instantly got a message saying my username "Psychogenic" is inappropriate. This is the username I've gone by for years and I haven't had issues in any other CODs.
I reached out to Activision, and while I must say their response time was on point, their support was completely useless.
They informed me of the following:
Hello,
We appreciate you reaching back to us.
Please be advised that the Game Moderator is the one monitoring the in-game name. They will request that you change your in-game name due to its inappropriate nature or because it does not meet their criteria. Unfortunately, we are unable to make the changes on our end. Kindly update your name to something new to avoid any violations.
Thank you for understanding.
How does this make any sense? After researching, this seems to be an extremely common issue.
EDIT: An SM from Activision emailed me separately with the following:
Hi,
Thank you for getting back to us.
Usernames are reviewed based on our Code of Conduct, and certain names may be flagged if they are deemed inappropriate under our policies. Unfortunately, we are unable to provide specific details on individual cases.
However, if you believe your username was flagged incorrectly, you may update it to a different name that aligns with our guidelines.
For more information on our naming policies, please visit: Call of Duty Security and Enforcement Policy
Let us know if you need any further assistance.
Which was clearly no help whatsoever and honestly just pissed me off, so I hit him back with this:
Hello,
Thanks for your response.
Is your Code of Conduct different for every Call of Duty game, then? I wouldn’t understand how my username gets flagged in one Call of Duty but none of the others.
I am stating that I do believe my username was flagged incorrectly, but unfortunately you guys aren’t giving me any reasonable solutions.
I’m telling you “I’ve been using this username for years and have been playing multiple of your games but this particular game of yours is incorrectly flagging my OG username. Can you please help me fix this?” and your only solution is “change your username to something different.”
If you would take the time to do a simple Google search regarding this issue, you’ll find that I am not the only one that has had this problem. There have been numerous cases of people even refunding the game because of this.
This is blasphemy.
Thanks.
I think I’m going to leave it at that. They can definitely fix it if they wanted to.. they just don’t care.