I use alt codes and don’t care if others do. They pay for the game like everyone else.
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I personally hate them because it makes it harder to send mail, invite, or look someone up. I have had to see the person’s name, determine which alt code(s) is even being used, then looking up that alt code so I could copy it into the name so I could search for the person. It makes things very frustrating.
Of course, Blizzard could do something to help with these naming issues, but they don’t. I won’t lie, it’s part of why I won’t play on certain realms. I don’t want to give up my name for some of my characters.
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Wait… we have names??? This whole time I just been calling people their class or role.
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I’m the real Shadows. Every alt code version is an imposter.
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But how I would I shorten my 5 syllable name?
easy, you become car
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Woah!
All I need is a ridable aquatic form and then I really will be a car 
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if you use alt characters your pretty much telling the world you dont want to be invited to guilds, dungeons…anything that involves a person typeing your name in to achieve that purpose …
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ain’t no body got time for that!
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I’ve got a few. I guess with those characters I’m anti social enough that I don’t need to get invited to anything, nor have I ever tried to invite someone with those characters to something, so I don’t have any issues. If I try to send an item via email to one of my alts they pop up with the first letter, so no problems there either. I don’t go nuts though, usually just one alt code because I’ve decided on a name and refuse to pick another. Most randomized names are trash. 
I hate alt characters in names.
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Just whisper them and ask what the alt codes are. If they dont know themselves then theyre not worth inviting lol
You are a Wheel of Time fan.
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Never bothered me personally.
Your name is already a violation. I would take Xs over special characters anyday.
I forget my characters have names. I am normally referred to as "“Hey druid” or “Why are you feral?” lol
This character has always been a Wiccan, and when I rerolled him on Wyrmrest Accord I had few options. Whomever has the non alt-code version of the name isn’t doing anything with it either; there is no armoury, not even a low-level banking alt.
I’ve been waiting for four years for the name. 
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Semi-funny story (maybe). I was in a BG recently and said, “I agree with the monk.” The monk responded with “I have a name.” And I told him, yeah it’s “monk.” Not gonna lie, when I’m doing stuff in content like that, I see class colors and I see roles, that’s it. I don’t have time to read names, and some names are just really weird. So you get “tank” or “hunter” or whatever it is. I get the same thing in return.
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“Über” should be acceptable.
Me too. I speak a few languages that use accents and diacritics all the time so I can’t stop myself from pronouncing them. It’s really annoying.
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