WoW Forever players who paid for early name reservations got locked out by a bug

World of Warcraft: Forever would-be Connors hit a wall this week, as a filter bug blocked their names during early reservations. The issue happened as Blizzard opened early reservations on October 27 for players who had paid for the perk. Expectedly, complaints about queues and disconnects were soon being slung across its forums, but there was another, more unpredictable error: every user name containing the letters “con” was unavailable. Since names were first come, first served, every failed login mattered, but it looked like after the beta spent loads of effort cracking down on offensive names, the filter had grown…