It looks ugly and is immersion breaking, but you do you.
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Not offended just slightly annoyed. Big difference.
Honestly Blizz needs to allow stuff like last names so more names get available. Less need to do the special symbols if that’s a thing
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They’re annoying and most of the time people can’t even pronounce their own name.
They are interesting if the pronunciation makes sense. When it a regular word with many diacritics, it just sounds like a mispronunciation.
Not offensive, but it does show a lack of imagination.
I wouldn’t say offended I just find it stupid looking.
Yeah not offensive just shows me you’re either a preteen or have the creativity of a spoon.
I’m pretty sure you’ve made a post just like this in the past.
I’ve been Koda Bear since I came into this world. My grandfather called me Koda long before brother bear or the NPC in legion. I was Koda in vanilla wow with no alt codes. I transferred off my dead alliance server to area 52 horde and it was taken so I did an alt code for the o. Same with Shogun (my monk) and Kristin (my rogue). I used alt codes for the i’s. Kristin and Koda have been Kristin and Koda for 15 years. Shogun was such without alt codes when monks were released.
Most of my characters don’t have alt codes but those 3 do. Can’t get to butt hurt, it was inevitable when brother bear came out, a million Koda druids would pop up
if blizzard allowed us to alt shift space letters in names so the spacing was invisible but the server could understand a unique name then alt code names would most likely drop… and inviting those people would be easy… yo invite me type
"m-alt space-yname"for my name… instead of alt coding just tell people how many spaces to hold easier to remember that. then atleast when you are looking at the names they appear normal to our eyes
Maybe if blizzard would do a name clear on people who have names saved for no reason on low levels that have less than say 20 hours of play time, year inactive players, ect…we wouldn’t need to use alt code names. 16 years of people using every name possible in the dictionary, you run out of steam. I saw a druid in a bg yesterday who looked like he rolled his hand down his keyboard.
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нε ρʁøb4βℓy τн!ηκ$ н!$ η4мε !$ ςøøℓ.
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excuse me SIR, but i was having a stroke when i made that druid… thankyou very much!!! btw im better now
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Feelswodman.
I use those things all the time just so I can keep all my characters with roughly the same name. The easier solution would be to give us last names and most people wouldn’t have to do that.
Names with special characters also make it quite difficult to quickly target when using the /target command.
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This annoys me especially because ß in German is pronounced as “ss.” So when I see a name that includes it that’s how I sound it out in my head.
Maybe if Blizzard understood the concept of surnames, or allowed spaces and apostrophes in names, and allowed longer names, it wouldn’t be so bloody hard to get a unique name that meant something to the player. I absolutely will “cheat” with diacritical marks, umlauts, and circumflexes if the name I wish to use for a given character isn’t available. Especially if the character was transferred from another server only to find out that their original name wasn’t available.
Anyone who doesn’t like that, doesn’t have to interact with my characters.
I was going for the four mandarin main tones (pinyin) but the letter “ā” and “ǎ” isn’t allowed so I had to settle with these two.
Is this acceptable?
never cared,
have tried to mail someone some gold or some bags etc and got fed up wanting to just type in something I understand.
Yes I know how to do special symbols
Consider it disrespectful to make things harder for me to do kindness, often give up outta irritation and just move on.
TCs name just looks like clown vomit.