Increased name size possability?

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I am just putting this out there in the hopes that a blizz blue will comment on it.

Will we ever see an increase in the amount of letters you can use for names? We have had all of these QoL changes or increases to the game, yet that is one thing that has not happened yet. It would be nice to be able to have more letters to add to the names or even adding numbers to names.

Just a thought on the matter.

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How many versions of “Legolas” do we really need in this game?

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I want them to free up names again, I really don’t want to start using alt codes for names but the randomizer is handing out names like Aeilelelel and Opiuanghhsh.

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Yeah it doesn’t really provide any meaningful character name. It’s just a bunch of random letters clumped together.

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Is awful. I transferred a toon because the name open
but as soon as I transferred was told it wasn’t so I had to rename it. I did so with an alt code for the first letter. HUGE MISTAKE!

Now my poor guy is: ALT 0 2 0 8 ‘ocgonzo. Just ruined it for me. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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I usually take a prefix I like or suffix and try to combine it with another pre/suf I like to make a servicable name, but I mostly whine because on roleplay servers (and in rp in general) names are really important.

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That got me thinking: can everyone be named Legolas? I think there are enough special characters everyone’s character could be named Legolas. Just swapping around the e, we could have LĂšgolas, LĂ©golas, LĂȘgolas, LĂ«golas, Lēgolas, Lĕgolas, Lėgolas, Lęgolas, Lěgolas, Lȅgolas, Lȇgolas, Lɘgolas.

I guess if there are 10 possibilities for each letter, and 7 letters, that’s 10 million different ways to spell Legolas. And we can use the same name on different realms.

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I just want them to allow us to use a space
 That is all I need. They allow it in our passwords for the game, why not our names. and yes I realize that their are childish people that will abuse it
 but that is simple enough if people would report names.

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They should really allow a first and last name tbh. Increasing the character count for names would be nice but then I’d see names like WantedLostartesbutgotthisnameinstead :rofl:

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In the future reserve it. Transfer the character, delete the reserved name character, then when prompted to rename your transferred charter there you go.

I can’t recall if you are only forced to name change when that name not is already in use. Best to play it safe in either case, this is Blizzard. :wink:

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Yeah it is when the name is in use so you can reserve it, transfer and delete the character you reserved but it takes up a slot.

Since they are looking at increasing the character count, it should be fine.

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I don’t think longer names is a good solution to people having difficulty finding names.

Spaces? Maybe. Surnames? Probably. Longer names? Please, no.

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Please Blizzard :pleading_face:

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I think that naming in general needs a rework/update. It’s very difficult to get a “good” name on even low population servers now, and impossible on high pops.

Ken-nie
Kenn’ie
Kennie Kennerson

Stuff like that. It’d option up a lot of options.

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God no! We’d have a never ending supply of “Mike Hawk”, “Mike Hunt”, “A. Nellsechs”, “A. Nelprober”, “Alotto Dix”, “Annie Rection”, etc. ad nauseum.

That’s specifically why we don’t get surnames in WoW as it is.

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I want them to update the naming convention entirely. We should be able to use apostrophes, dashes, and spaces. And for the love of everything, I wish we could have surnames.

If Blizzard were to do this, they’d never have to worry about releasing names ever again. Also, the number of requests they’d get to rename characters would be a good look.

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