How do you feel about names with special symbols?

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I personally think they totally awesome when used in the right way. Obviously a name such as the one I have wouldn’t fly on RP realms, but I do think this name works for my character very well for a few good reasons. Reasons such as:

  1. My character is a criminal under lord. Wouldn’t it make sense for a criminal under lord to pick a rather obscure name that would need to be decrypted to hide their real identity?

  2. I am playing a goblin rogue; A very evil and villainous one of that.

  3. The name is an external identity. My actual RP name is Baxter Deathbolt.

  4. Does my character really look like the kind of goblin that would care about spelling and grammer? Rather it should be apparent that this character is easily criminally insane.

  5. Lots of goblins have last names that are nouns in lore.

If you still disagree though, let me know. Maybe perhaps I could make some adjustments.

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special characters are for special characters.

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depends on the name, but most of the time i hate it. i can stand it on other peoples’ characters but not on my own.

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The only issue I have is that it makes it incredibly difficult to type those names into chat accurately. If I want to /who or /whisper I need to take a six week course in ASCII coding first.

But overall, I care as much about what name you choose as I do what hairstyle you wear. You’re the one who has to look at it every day. If you’re happy with it, good for you.

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i only use it to by-pass famous names and use it on my characters.
because i am that lazy.

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I don’t care either way. Just makes it a pain to mail them items in game.

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I liken it to people using dashes in clever places or odd top level domains because their choice .com was taken. I recognize the scarcity issue and see that you’re willing to have the cheap knockoff because you reaaaally wanted that char to have the unaccented name. Personally, if I had to be Monzá, I’d just pick something else.

I think the whole chat issue mattered more back when people used to find groups via General chat, but ever since LFG/LFR, I rarely need to type someone’s name anymore. Right clicking on them and choosing Whisper gets me there.

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I am personally not into it myself, but if that’s your thing then have fun!

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“I want that name, g’dammit!”

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I’ve never used any myself. Perhaps if I was super attached to a name that was already taken then… maybe? I don’t think so though.

I really don’t mind that others do.

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All I can say I have fun with me giving zero effort to invite you.

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I use special characters on characters I like to pvp and not be easily tagged by typing my name.

And I use it to make regular names, that are already taken.

But overall I only use one which is the Y with a dash on it on the first capital letter which is barely visable.

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How I feel about names with special symbols is that either a) the person really likes a name so they used a special character to bypass the gate or b) they think they’re really cool and deserve an “interesting” looking name.

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I try and be merciful and, if I MUST use them because the name I want…or am using myself…is already taken, I try and have it be one of the latter ones so that people can search or whisper or invite without a major hassle.

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The only problem is. Is that some think their name means one thing. The symbols make it totally different. One guy, i was surprised he was never forced to change his name. let say i would not want someone to thank i was that kind of guy.

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I think they’re unimaginative most of the time(present company excluded :smiley: )

Also, it really bugs me when eszett is used(that funny looking B), because it’s not a b and it totally changes the way words are pronounced when you know it’s actually said like S in German LOL

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Generally I think people who use them, especially excessively are exhibiting narcissistic tendencies.

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I still have flashbacks about the blood elf deahtknights named after a certain final fantasy character in Wrath that used special characters to get around the name rules. Funny I don’t see any of them around anymore.

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ß, sad to say it but I used it on a character a long time ago as I wanted to make a last name type of thing. Greasyßeard , think it is still around but just made another two or so toons with a normal small b.

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If you mail an item once, it auto-completes the name after pressing one or 2 letters. Most of the time, I don’t even get to the special character before it’s already filled in. Even my Alliance toons get auto-fill ins with the appropriate server suggested.