Hm, when I had this idea I wasn’t thinking of the name above your player I was thinking of the name you see in chat.
I think you misunderstand, I was saying to make a new account to misbehave, in chat. Not to make a new account entirely, no need to be rude. Also I don’t see how the idea is failed, just a difference of opinion and desire. Or was that just more of you being rude? If that was just a portion of your rudeness that’s fine but if you actually have a point I’d like to hear it 
Your post isn’t very well liked. To make a new account you’d have to start from scratch. To chat. You’d see people, all with the same name in a chat. Where you wouldn’t be able to differentiate between one or another since as you said the # wouldn’t be visible. It’s a bad idea all around.
They should just make the forums use real ID. That way people don’t spit the garbage they do by hiding behind a virtual identity.
How are you quantifying this?
I think we are talking past each othere here. Let me elaborate further. Let’s say I want to say something that will get me silenced in chat, I don’t want to be silenced so I make a new account, run my happy butt to Org and then spew whatever craziness I want to, get silenced then abandon the account. I’m not talking about doing anything on the account other than misbehaving in chat.
What stops that now?
Wait a minute, Manapaws! Are you also manapaws on Proudmoore lol Oh crap let me find out it’s PMoore Manapaws I’ll tell trade chat I found you!
But yeah what stops me from going on WyrmrestAccord and being Manäpaws?
By the likes it received, and the likes other comments received.
It takes up to 24 hours when you purchase a new license/account to become a non-trial and do that. and you’d still get actioned, and then actioned for EVADING a chat related silence onto the same server.
Your system doesn’t solve any problem with the current one, but creates more problems instead.
I’d like a toggle option or something. Than my main name can never be stolen from me on servers
But are you counting the positive comments? I’m somewhat inclined to count.
-squints- I’ve never heard that before. It sounds wrong because why would there be a 24 hour block on chat for a new player? Also I’m talking about a whole new battlenet email name and everything. I have about 7 unique accounts and 3 accounts attached to this account and I don’t recall any 24 waiting periods.
Ah, clarity has been achieved
I personally never get mail but I can see that being very annoying unless you recently spoke in chat then I could just shift click your name.
I can see it creating problems for some and solving problems for others, like any change lol.
It would be glorious to always have my name
No, it shouldn’t exist at all. Ever. This is an RPG. Every character is part of the story. This isn’t some console FPS where you’re not part of anything. Immersion is a thing. And it shouldn’t be ruined by this bad idea.
Then perhaps I misunderstood you. I thought you were proposing that you could choose which of my “names” were over or on mouseover on my characters. (btag or character)
Did I misunderstand?
Opinion noted, and I should have said opt in, a system like this would be better as something you chose to do vs having to turn off.
Yeah, ideally it would be completely optional.
You can choose to show your character name or your btag and you can choose to see character names or btag’s of other players (if they’ve enabled it of course).
If you wanted no parts of the system you could choose to show your character and see other characters by their name so nothing would change for you.
Well, if I can block someone from seeing my Btag, and I can block seeing other player’s Btags, then my only “objection” at that point is more an observation that I cannot begin to put together the costs justification for implementation.
I mean, if you take into account the cost of it - what does that pitch look like? What is the value added? Do you feel that players who do not play WoW would sit back and say: “Oh, I can have all my characters under my btag in WoW now? Man, can’t wait to buy the expacs and a sub!” Do you feel that players are leaving WoW because they cannot display their Btag over all their characters?
I don’t feel that there is any scenario that justifies the expense of implementation, maintenance, and the enforcement of extending the naming guidelines into the Btag system.
I feel like this takes the whole point away from rpg
This is why /pol/ is great. /b/ Used to be good until it just became a bunch of morons posting pornography. I don’t need to worry about some sweat calling every place trying to find where I work because I said something they disagreed with.
People in their anonymity are truly honest, a lot of people use it to be knobheads sure but more or less the majority of people are just truly honest with their opinions when they don’t need to fear retribution. I’m less likely to state my true beliefs on a really controversial topic if I’m dealing with someone that knows who I am and has a tendency to lash out. Lord knows they might make a bunch of fake reports at my workplace trying to get me fired because I don’t agree with their opinion on something.
At the surface on paper this seems like a good idea that would bring the community together by making your reputation matter and remove the anominity that feeds trolls. However if anyone goes deeper into it there is flaws in such a proposed system the biggest of which would be harassment. Think about the type of people you have ran into in this game. Answer me honestly… Do you trust these people not to harass people if the only name they had to get was your battletag name?
I’m no dev, no idea how much it would cost to do something like this, do you know? Maybe it’s cheap and trivial, maybe it’s expensive and convoluted 
lol
I was harassed by a person, I told them to stop talking to me, removed them from battlenet and blocked them. They somehow managed to still send me a message but their btag was all messed up and weird looking like the system only got a portion of their message. That’s when I told Blizz and I haven’t heard from them since 
People may scoff at online harassment but companies take it serious and will mush it out quickly.
Being harassed is the last thing on my mind because I’ll just tell Blizz so they can be tossed into the void.
If Blizzard did this-- there would be no opting out of the system. They would have to, on the basics of fairness, force Everyone to use it.
I also see how players could possibly turn this into a complete nightmare-- requiring players to either opt into the system or be removed from guilds, groups, and other things.
My characters name is my battle name so yeah I’m fine with it.
I’m personally no for this because my battle tag is a cringy rawr exdee meme me and my friends had awhile back wouldn’t be good to be posting in the forums and you just see the name Rawrexdee69 everywhere all the time.
Non-issue really.
It would bring accountability for players back. Vanilla-WOTLK had real accountability for players, so if you were a jerk and ninja’d something or were toxic, the community knew about it and you faced consequences.
That doesn’t really exist anymore.
For the sake of the Gold economy itself, it’s best to keep character names.