Names, Name Hoarding, & My Thoughts

Screenshots, screenshots, screenshots. I had to learn this the hard way. I would bet the GM could have accessed the log of you having that character. But since they knew they couldn’t swipe the name from whoever has it now, they just said they couldn’t find the record.

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They don’t want to do this. They picked a really, really common and already in-demand name from popular media/fiction etc, and they’ve decided they need that name even though there are already 180 of them on WoW’s servers.

You mean you want to purge all these accounts from the game. Gee, I wonder why Blizzard doesn’t want to let you drive off all the people who take a 6 month break and come back to find you took their main’s name while they were stationed abroad or helping a family member in hospice. Just imagine if you logged in one day and found you had been stripped of all your character’s names, names you had had for many years.

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Oh, I know, but yeah, sounds pretty boring to me.
:woman_shrugging:t4:

I’ll just call you Steve.

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Hard disagree.

Just increase the character limit and allow for the option of one space, hyphen or apostrophe.

There’s your last names and there’s the other cultural naming conventions.

Absolutely not.

Also absolutely not.

Yet another absolutely not.

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I’m all for a better policy for releasing names but if a name is on an active account (which means sub/game time applied) then it doesn’t matter if they haven’t logged on that character since 24 Nov 2004, nobody should have a right to it.

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You know people deploy right? There is a good chance that they won’t be able to play for nearly a year and it’s not worth it to have an active sub to WoW if you don’t have time to play the game.

I know this because I deployed and hardly had time to play games online.

I think having a six month inactive sub to “free” names is way too short. It should be at year at least.

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They really should have added surnames long ago to help alleviate this issue.

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Is it just me or when this topic comes up does it always seem like people are upset about others hoarding names PURELY because it is preventing them from…hoarding names?

Like…this complaint always comes from the type with maxed out characters on multiple accounts.

I mean bro I’ve only got like 20 names taken, several of which are just repeats across different servers, you’ve got 180 already. Calm down.

The more I think about this topic, the more it seems like name purging is a great way for people to snipe inactive character names & try to sell them back for further profit. I don’t know how lucrative name selling & hoarding is currently. I never honestly considered it. But enacting something like this, that takes away active players names who’ve spent years on a server building networks or social reputations - without warning, or an ability to lockout, just seems like an avenue for abuse moreso than betterment.

If the person sniping gets mad you won’t pay the fee to get your original characters name back, they can also potentially pose as you… act like a complete jerkface & sour whatever good rep you once had.

Soooo… hard no thanks. The pessimist in me circled back around on this one.

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I’d like to see a player with the name ‘BallGagBilly’ try to get their name back. I agree with everything you said, but that would still be funny.

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Allow last names, apostrophes and hyphens, would solve so many problems.

I imagine the spaghetti code can’t handle it tho.

Off topic but allow us to name our Warbands.

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I could finally make Poop-Lord 69 a reality!

Just come up with more creative names.

I stopped reading right here.

6 months is a blink of an eye. It is the average length of a season or patch. Sometimes it is okay to take a break from WoW, whether responsibilities pull you away, or the content is just meh (like BfA and SLs or a season of recycled content like right now).

Every 4 years names get released and that is fine.

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Just how big of a problem do you think this could possibly be to require such a massive change in how name releases are handled?

Generally I don’t care about my name much if it’s something that only I see.

If you’re not on an RP realm, it’s pretty much gonna only be you seeing the name. People are going to call you by whatever mess the actual name is.

TRP3 is not a fix for naming issues.

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The only time it irritates me is when it’s a name I’ve been known by for more than wows been around.

My 30+ year old, unique at the time email address name is taken. I had to improvise.

And no, it’s not a common name. Or word. I made it up in the 90s.

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Same same

I have around 20 slots dedicated to toons I actually might play here and there (main, alts, throwaway mount-farm alts, etc), and then I have about 15 slots taken up by “reserved name” placeholder toon slots - most of which are just duplicate names of characters I play

…but these kinds of threads would have us believe there’s people hoarding like 50+ names per account, that’s simply not true. I imagine for the average player, they might reserve 10-15 names and usually it’s the name(s) of the characters they play

This whole topic basically boils down to: “someone else got it first? waaaah waaaah!”… it’s almost the exact same sour grapes scenario of a person that showed up late to the parking lot and now has a crappy/far-away spot (he has to use special characters), and he “resents” the early-bird-gets-the-worm guys who got there early and got the best spots (the BiS/unique names without special characters) right next to the front door

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just add last names.

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