Last Names

[Kaiichi]

I herd from a friend that FFXIV had implaminted last names, I haven't played XIV so I wasn't sure if it was true. If it is, dose SE plan on bringing it to FFXI? I can see as the game was first designed with a single name basis, that implaminting this system could potentualy bug out the AH system as well as a few other things. I only really ask because my whole family plays (-mom) and the only real thing linking us together is the family LS.

[Arcon]

I at first thought it was a nice feature, but turns out it's pretty inconvenient.

/tell name

is a lot easier than

/tell firstname lastname

And yes, I think there would be too many coding hickups to consider to make this efficient.

[Hoshi]

Really hated the firstname/lastname thing in XIV. It's cool to have a last name but like Arcon said it gets tricky trying to send tells since you need both names... especially if your spelling is bad or if your friend picks weird foreign sounding/spelled names. I guess if there had been a search function at that point it would have made that bearable since you could just /sea first 3 letters and then click on the name you wanted to tell.

[Kaiichi]

I didn't even think of the hole /tell thing, but I just really wanted to know if it was in fact a feature on FFXIV. Anywhoo, thanks for the super fast replys XD on a side note.. How do you post Signature pics?

[Romanova]

but I just really wanted to know if it was in fact a feature on FFXIV. Anywhoo,

It is a feature in FFXIV. Their whole basis for it was a lot of FFXI players wanted to be able to use their same names if they switched games. However, as others said it ended up being a huge pain in the neck, and hopefully they'll figure out a way to get rid of it with all the fixes they're doing.

Because of that, I highly doubt they'd add them to FFXI.

As for pics go to edit your signature, and do picturelink

[Kingofgeeks]

yeah, lots of ppl don't even like the whole first/last name thing in ffxiv. doubt they'd add that in ffxi

[Zindel]

On the other hand a lot of people do not like being xxMynamexx or Instead of Rain, Raine, Rainz, xxRainyxx, on the other odd spelling of a name.