After about my 10th ticket regarding this issue I was directed toward posting on the forums to suggest a change directly.
I’ve been trying to get a specific name on a specific realm since BFA where there is a person who has the name on an inactive character who has boost gear from the BFA expansion that’s how I know it’s never been played. I check about once every 6 months to see if this name free’s up, but I’m told that names on inactive characters only free up if the ACCOUNT is inactive for 2 expansion cycles. Through the ticketing, and the responses I’ve come to find that this person only plays classic, and the name on retail will probably never be available because the person plays classic so his/her account is always active.
I’ve sent in game mails to the character directly politely asking to pay gold for the name or asking if there were any way to arrange any kind of solution but this person never answers, probably because they don’t even have the retail client installed.
I think the policy that allows people to hold onto names for games they don’t play needs to be revisited, and there needs to be some way of recycling names on a 20 year old game so that we don’t have to name our characters ‘DJHFDSENSNEVEI’ or similar. Hope this gets traction, thanks for reading.
Obviously you want a specific realm, but for me, Now that realms don’t matter much, i can find the name i want elsewhere. I tend to use odd spelling and just force the name i want that way and generally prefer my oddly spelled names. This character is an example.
Oldest story every written was of gilgamesh in ancient sumer. I wanted ‘gilgamash’, since both these were taken i added a letter. Never bothered me to spell it this way.
Some of us are even more devious and use a second or third wow subaccount (you can have up to 8). Then we reserve a bunch of names, up to 65 each as of the current limit. You dont have to pay for a subscription on them, just log in once a year to refresh the counter, you can as long as they are level 20 and under.
I support the surname idea as well. It would help. I still think people should have to give up names that they are sitting on if they don’t login for 30/60 days or so. If you’re not playing it, you don’t get it. This is a live service game.
I am the world’s worst when it comes to names. I find one I like, make a character, play said character for a bit and get bored. Thus deleting that character, only to remember I liked their name and poof it’s in use now.
As for the Op’s issue, yes, I do agree the naming policy in this game stinks and should be up for evaluation to be changed. Hording names so that at some point in a foreseeable future you can auction those names off for in game gold is ok, but to have a name on an inactive character for long periods of time should auto flag remove that character’s name.
I don’t know any MMORPG that shows names like Sendryn@Thallia. And if you mean some type of hidden account name, then that destroys the RP community and other communities, as well. Because then there can be 200 Sendryns on Moon Guard thst are all Evokers and no one would be able to keep them all straight.
Also: no one wants 200 of me. One of me is bad enough.
Guess I been playing too much STO. I thought sure that naming scheme had caught on with others, but I can’t remember any off hand.
You don’t HAVE to show the account name, and how is it any different than showing the server name as it does now? Except instead of only one name per server, you can see one name per account.
Also, kinda arrogant to think 200 people want to use your name. Also kinda arrogant to think your desire to be a special unique little snowflake trumps other people’s desire to use names they find cool that they just didn’t play soon enough to secure.
I see an asterisk, not a server name. And on MG, everyone is on MG unless they got CRZ’d in.
… it was an example.
There are seven billion Thallias across this game. But only one on MG. Therein lies the difference. No one is asking to be “special little snowflake.” Just not to be mistaken for someone else.
If you cannot understand that people actually do have reputations on different servers and in different communities, then I’m not sure what to tell you.
There’s a reason why I proposed the naming changes in my first post. That way, people can use the character name they want and then add a surname or use a hyphen or apostrophe to change things up, which also in turn frees up more names for others.
This is not the type of roleplaying game where rando account names make sense due to community and RP.
Since the Warbank exists and cross server guilds, the only thing people need from a specific server now is the ability to get crafted stuff from Work Orders. That means either a decent server population or a guild.
So you’re not wrong. I’m sure there are other servers where the OP could get that name.
I bet you’re a pleasant individual. What you decide to name your character can say a lot about you, case in point. I was following the direction of the CSR that responded to my ticket. And yeah, if it means enough to me I’ll throw money at it. Some of us aren’t broke.
