I am pretty sure I already posted in this thread that I have accounts past that 2 expansion time frame without renamed characters. Yes, if you look at people that have been inactive since like TBC they probably got renamed like that but from what I can tell it doesn’t currently work like that, which is what you were trying ti nitpick.
Also posting this:
When you edited that in after I posted is pretty silly. Dunno why you’d do that.
i edited it in while you were still posting… because i knew you’d find something else to get hung up on, and i wanted to throw a caveat in there.
look out, because i’m editing this one too!!
…simply due to a poor choice of words.
(and heaven forbid that someone dare to admit that they may be mistaken… right? the world may implode!)
Realm connections open up possibilities of that is coming your way.
Your character’s name will have a code number attached to it, and you will be prompted to choose a new name when you attempt to log into it.
I got this name on Moon Guard two months ago, and it’s my real name. People delete and transfer characters all the time.
i just looked up all 8 accounts. Right now i play on number 1 and number 8 is inactive but doesnt have any character… weird. I dont think i deleted my warrior.
have you tried logging in to the realm where the character is?
after a long period of inactivity, the characters will stop being visible from the realm selection screen
I FOUND IT!!! Thanks!
Honestly, I don’t know why we are limited to one name per server. You will come across people with the same first and last name in real life. Why not just tie the names to the b-tag? I’m pretty sure every b-tag is unique and even if they have the same name like mine is Dfess, none will have the same string of numbers behind the #. I’m just saying it’s a really dumb limitation these days that should be done away with. Especially with the millions of players who like the same names.
If I’m still paying for the account, why should I lose the name?
I’m only attached to like 3 names and one of them, my hunter, I don’t play anymore cause I hate what they’ve done to the class. Would be really pissed if I lost the name when/if the class becomes something I enjoy again.
Names used to release after a couple expansions of inactivity but IIRC now as long as you have an active sub your names are safe.
Adding Sir and Maiden names could effortlessly resolve this.
As long as the account is active. The names should not be touched.
Regardless of how long a character on the account has not been played.
They really should add spaces, apostrophes and/or surnames so freeing the names isn’t such a big deal in the first place.
It’s ridiculous that our characters still have what amounts to an AOL handle in this day and age.
yeah well the problem is always the damn thing that “active accounts cant be touched” so basically there’s always someone with all the names as level 1 and never unsubbed.
How is this not already a thing honestly…Like I’ve seen so many NPC’s with spaces apostrophes and last names it’s really dumb that it isn’t extended to the player.
I’m not sure what’s a fair way to make people let go of names they’re reserving for possible future use, since I’m guilty of it myself. But I think two expansions is a little too long and it should be only one year or so.
I feel like it probably made sense in 2004, when database space was probably a huge priority, especially for such a gigantic game…
… But where we’re at now, you could quite literally run every single Vanilla WoW server blade, store every single character and every instance of anything, ever, on your home computer without all that much trouble, and other games have proven that giving people spaces, special characters, and extra-long character limits isn’t an issue…
Heck, I doubt it was ever even a technical concern, because I’m pretty sure someone told me freaking EverQuest let you had surnames. And that game came out in the late 90s.
I’d just really love a Blizzard dev to come out and say why character names are so ridiculously simplistic in the biggest MMORPG the world has ever seen.
Everquest did let you have a surname once you hit level 20 I think. Eq2 kept the tradition and both let you have apostrophes in the name as well.
It’s been a while since I played Eq or Eq2 so the surname thing could be a level 10 thing. I do remember it being a thing though and all my characters on EQ2 had the same last name lol.