Blizzard should free up names

[Kegeo-drenden]

That makes me wanna scream on an existential level, lmao.

Of all the things Blizzard have snatched up from their competition, why did they never take that?!

[Vilia-spirestone]

@Kegeo-drenden

That makes me wanna scream on an existential level, lmao.

Of all the things Blizzard have snatched up from their competition, why did they never take that ?!

Damn good question lol. If EQ could handle it why couldn’t WoW which came out in 2004. I’m sure they used all the space they had for the entire game but I mean…apostrophes and surnames don’t seem like they would take a lot of data.

[Mute-silvermoon]

@Sipsoup-stormrage

i would love to recover the warrior i used to play back in tbc… I can’t find him tho

You can open a ticket about this. As long as it’s on the same account and you can remember something about the character to pass along to the GM.

I had a character restored that had been deleted in BC, opened a ticket and the super awesome GM found it and restored, despite the fact that I had forgotten about moving it to Eldre’Thalas and renaming it.

Never hurts to ask.

[Korette-feathermoon]

Just because the characters haven’t been played doesn’t been the account is inactive.

[Kaurmine-area-52]

@Paladina-kargath

They do a name purge for non used toons every so often.

I just want to correct some phrasing here

World of Warcraft
Character names on accounts that have been inactive for the past two expansions automatically become eligible to be used by other characters. We do not assist with releasing character names manually.

Account Hacked

“Accounts that have been inactive”

not

Characters that haven’t been played. I could have made a character day 1 of vanilla and never played him but had an active account so I’ll never lose that name.

[Nobully-blackrock (Nobully)]

@Mute-silvermoon

You can open a ticket about this. As long as it’s on the same account and you can remember something about the character to pass along to the GM.

they already found the character

[Teufelgott-shadowsong (Teufelgott)]

@Shalashaska-stormrage

I agree. I can’t pick a name for a Paladin on Stormrage because all of the good ones are taken I lack imagination and creativity.

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[Shalashaska-stormrage]

I don’t want a creative name though. I want a good one. Not like your’s.

[Angenie-aerie-peak (Angenie)]

Until Blizzard does something to modify the name conundrum, I will tell you some of the tips I use to almost get the name I want:

1. Spell the name phonetically (e.g. Sandra could be Sandrah) or look up alternative spelling of the name, or word, at http://www.waystospell.com
2. Replace a character in the name with a special character (e.g replace “a” with “å”)
3. Add/remove a character (e.g. Marshall is spelled Marshal, or Marrshall)
4. Think of what your characters last name might be and use that as their name, or run the first & last names together (e.g. Brucesmith)
5. If the name is a thing like “Flower”, you can look up the word in other languages using https://www.bing.com/translator/ sometimes that can be appealing to know that YOU know what it means but others don’t
6. If all else fails, search the internet for another appealing name.