Was grabbing a few things off the auctions this morning when i was waved to a few times by a L4 character which is not unusual in itself until i looked at the character in more detail. The characters name was "Gnatwest" and their guild name was "HTTPwwwnatwestdotcom".

Couldn't make up my mind whether it was just someone messing around or whether the corps have finally realised that they have a captive audience to advertise to in this game. Either way i found it pretty annoying.

Has anyone else seen examples of this?

NatWest is a [real life] banking company. It's probably just someone's bank character, since advertising bots are no more than level 1 (then deleted in a hurry). I see the occasional bank character and/or guild named after Norwegian banks at least, so chances are the international corporations, etc., will be used as well for naming purposes.

Being from the UK i know that Natwest is a bank and i first thought it may have just been a bank character, but it was more the fact that it was a L4 character, dressed in full christmas outfit (stands out) with the full web address of the bank site as the guild name, standing waving to every person in the auction house. It just didn't fit as a normal bank alt.

It's World of Warcraft - you will at all times be surrounded by morons.

Originally posted by jason_webb

Being from the UK i know that Natwest is a bank and i first thought it may have just been a bank character, but it was more the fact that it was a L4 character, dressed in full christmas outfit (stands out) with the full web address of the bank site as the guild name, standing waving to every person in the auction house. It just didn't fit as a normal bank alt.

Just be glad he wasn't standing on the IF fire, if you're Ally.

Originally posted by jason_webb

Being from the UK i know that Natwest is a bank and i first thought it may have just been a bank character, but it was more the fact that it was a L4 character, dressed in full christmas outfit (stands out) with the full web address of the bank site as the guild name, standing waving to every person in the auction house. It just didn't fit as a normal bank alt.

My bank character is well dressed.  I could see someone being funny and naming their bank character after a real bank and getting a guild for it just to be funny. 

The person didn't think things through though.. although Blizzard might now ban them for using a real banks name, other players may report them thinking they are a gold-selling company.