There are people sitting on names that haven’t played since week 2.
Why are you allowing these players to sit on character names that will never be used again?
This is a shortened timeline, it’s time to free these names up. If they aren’t playing now they don’t deserve to hold the names. Release them.
Just wait two full expacs and they will auto clear out for you K see that is literally what i said about the two exapcs thing and then I now bolded it cuz no one saw that I guess. Tovi says 4 years what blue has ever said that, I truly do not know. According to Tovi and Perl, that blue was wrong and they are both right. Tovi knows everything that there is to know ever. Even the blues who come to the forums do not know as much as they know. Listen to them 100% of the time and never to anyone else. . And yea had to BOLD what I had originally stated as the all knowing, omnipotent Tovi missed it.
I’m all for freeing up names on inactive accounts (something Blizzard does every expansion btw), but we shouldn’t be taking names from accounts that are active, sometimes i don’t play a character for a long time but i still want to come back to it at some point.
This does raise a question. Is it really that much an issue if multiple people are allowed to have the same name? In real life we have that despite our names being used for identification.
On the same server, yes it is a big issue.
I had Peacebloom as my bank alt on Earthen Ring for about five years.
People were mad about it.
I’m surprised you’re even asking that.
So, let’s say that there wasn’t anything preventing two players from having the same character name on the same server. I decide to make my own goblin named Evablossom on Bleeding Hollow. Later for whatever reason, someone decides to send 10K gold to Evablossom.
Which of us gets the gold? Do you see the problem here?
If there was no limitation on how many times a name could be used on a server, you’d have a ton of issues regarding where the mail should be sent, as well as potentially leading to other issues such as inviting the wrong person to a guild/group, reporting someone and having someone innocent get nailed for it, etc.
I’ve suddenly had a flashback to vanilla when every hunter I saw was a variation of Legolas and every rogue a variation of Drizzt.
No thanks.
Even better, let us use apostrophes in our names (like… you know, lore-conforming names for Zandalari, for example?) and add in a surname.
They don’t even really need to do that, just increase the character limit on names from 12 to 24 and allow spaces. There’s your ability to add a surname, and even a middle name if you want. So many of my characters in GW2 have three names simply because you can use spaces.
Oh yeah, that was more or less what I had in mind with a surname. Just a space would do greatly.
In fact the whole guild renaming change for gold that we got recently had some people really hyped because the datamined strings gave the impression that was about the character names. (which obviously wouldn’t go under the radar if it was for players)
That’s not how it works, at all. Misinformation.
Someone has to be unsubscribed for four years for the name to be released. Consecutively. So if someone is unsubbed for 3 years 11 months and 29 days then resubs at the last second, the counter restarts and you have to wait another 4 years.
If someone is paying their $15 a month then they’re using the name. Find a new one.
Maybe it could also take into account the battletag? Or have some special id for distinguishing between the names.
Eventually I plan to play Xyzpdq. Sorry can’t have the name.
I believe SWTOR allows you to add one space, hyphen or apostrophe. It’s nice. No idea why Blizzard hasn’t got with the times and allowed that yet.
No, I do have an idea. My guess is laziness. They don’t want to deal with actioning all the Ben Dovers and the like.
That is even a blue post agreeing with what I just said.
I said
The blue post which you refused to read because it would show that what i said was right said…
“The general timeline to release any name is approximately 2 expansions,”
Blue poster Vrakthris said that.
Now what does it say below that?
Btw, the support article that used to say two expacs in that thread you linked from 4 years ago is now broke. I’m almost positive it’s been updated to just 4 years, not two xpacs. I know this because I recently got a name that I’ve been trying to get for along time and it’s the middle of the xpac.
Unless they’ve made a recent change, “account activity” has been determined to be any battle.net activity. If you’re logging into any other battle.net accounts, different wow accounts, Overwatch, etc., those keep your account “active”.
I’m not a fan of that specifically and would personally like to see it changed to “keeping your wow account active”.
That said, another thing they changed was that the system doesn’t technically free up the name until a new character is made and the name is selected. The system does a ‘check’ on the name. If it meets the criteria for it to be freed-up, then it automatically happens. This part I do like. If nobody chooses your name, your character keeps it.
Yeah I did read it and this is the part you refuse to read:
So whether I’m right and it’s just four years now or you’re right and it’s two expacs, you’re still wrong because the if the account is active, which means subbed, then you’re not getting the name even if they haven’t logged that character on since vanilla.
You also said
You may have meant account, but pretty sure that is what Tovi is referring to. The battlenet account itself has to be inactive, not the character on the account.