Well now you’re just arguing against my concrete, factual example and looking foolish doing so.
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No one is crying, retail customer. This is a discussion.
Not every word spoken is a cry.
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I’m not saying that non-English names do not exist. I’m saying that that being the reason Blizzard chose to support alt-characters for WoW is your opinion, and I am skeptical it would be the reason they chose to do so.
If you think that makes me look foolish, you’re entitled to that opinion. However, you have done nothing to show that your opinion is anything other than an opinion.
The game translates item links back-and-forth because it has a concrete mapping to do so. It does not do that for player and pet names, even the ones that are standard ones.
I’m not giving any opinions. I have no idea why Blizzard chose to support Unicode in this way. I’m just stating how it works, just the facts.
I’m with you on this and I don’t like it, either, but my kid made a name like that. Here’s why:
Before launch, we rolled on Herod. We rolled there on name res day after talking it over between the choices available. At that time, we had no idea Herod would become the monster server. It was just one of like four choices for PvP in NA. We liked the name, and we chose it.
She rolled a toon named Wednesday. She had her name. She got invested. She’s an imaginative kid, and she went full RP on that thing with backstories and such. It was adorable.
We had to swap out to Stalagg prior to launch because the queues were gonna be insane and we went to the only choice we had at the time. She rolled a Wednesday and got it–to her delight. Stalagg swiftly became just as big as Herod had been, and we moved again to Smolderweb.
She didn’t get the name she’d had for weeks, and she was devastated in that way adolescents get devastated. So she added some ASCII marks to the vowels in the name. There are at least five different versions of Wednesday on our server that we’ve counted, but my kid was determined to keep it. She located the person who got the original Wednesday name–Horde–and has vowed to gank them until they quit so she can have her name.
She squirreled out at like level 30, though, so I don’t think that will happen. LOL .
Anyway…
That’s why people do that. They want the name. They’re invested in the name. So they do what they have to do to keep it.
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Have I given any reason for you to believe that I am stating anything in opposition to that? I’m not trying to argue with you here.
The point about alt-characters is in no way an attempt by me to attack you personally, nor your opinion that alt-characters are supported because some people have names that use non-English glyphs.
I’m sorry if this has triggered you.
I don’t get triggered, there’s no point in it. No idea why you think it would.
OK, great. I’m glad that you are not triggered.
All I am saying is that “because some people’s name need them” sounds like an opinion as to why they “are allowed” and not a fact.
This is pretty much like buying a Fiat and put a Mercedes sign on it.
It’s silly.
If something’s taken use your imagination and create another name.
Kids, pffft.
Some languages and people’s names do need them. For this reason Blizzard allowed them, that’s the only reason you’d use Unicode. That’s the whole point of Unicode, to allow languages and names that can’t be expressed using ASCII.
Why did they do that instead of just saying, “tough, use ASCII instead”? I have no idea of their thought process. In Vanilla they allowed a much smaller subset of characters for names and such, with the modern client they allow more.
Maybe they didn’t have the software designed for better Unicode support back then.
I think you answered your own question.
No ty. I don’t need to be typing out /whisper Legolas Thranduillion every time I want to talk to some guy. I don’t want to send mail to the wrong dude because there are 27 different subtle variations of Naruto Shippuden and I can’t remember which one is which.
Because they’re too dumb to think of an original name for their characters.
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So you won’t whisper me.
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It’s not hard to whisper people with alt codes & people do it so that they can get the name they want with a minor alteration but basically the same name,
I don’t like it - but I’ve used the name “Funky” for years across various media options and I’d like to stick with it. It’s what my friends call me in discord and just something I’m used to.
I’ve done it on other servers too with names I’d like to use and haven’t been able to grab - there are a lot of people who just make level 1 alts to hold names for the future for them and it shows.
I wasn’t able to grab the official name so I used a special character. I don’t really like it - but I get it.
I’m hoping they are alliance and I can murder them though.
EDIT: It also reduces spam and whispers actually compared to characters who don’t have funny characters in the name which I don’t think is a bad thing.
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I just shift click their name if they whisper me or they say something in world chat or guild or whatever, then type /invite and paste their name in. Isn’t too much a hassle if they say something to me
I named my death knight after the Norwegian word for death- død. I thought I was being clever until I realized that it was impossible for me to auto-fill the character’s name because there were too many other players in my guild who’s names started with D.
So I ended up buying a name change to something with no special characters and vowed to never use a special character in a name ever again.
I feel that if I need a special character to get the name I want, it wasn’t that great of a name to begin with. Another name can be easily found.
Did this entire group adventure go on without a single comment in /P ?
Because its easy to scroll up and find old comments.
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