All accounts upgrading to Square enix accounts

[Alhanelem]

How will this affect people who got their first and last name reversed in POL by someone at SE somewhere in 2004-2005?

I can't imagine how it would affect anyone.

[Atomic_Skull]

I can't imagine how it would affect anyone.

"We're sorry but the name on the POL account "Smith John" does not match the SE account for John Smith and cannot be added, please select a POL account with a matching name"

[Alhanelem]

"We're sorry but the name on the POL account "Smith John" does not match the SE account for John Smith and cannot be added, please select a POL account with a matching name"

I doubt that the names on the POL and SE accounts have to be the same.

And can't you try calling support to fix your name? How did you enter it backwards in the first place? Shouldnt you be double checking before submitting important personal information?

[Quedari]

I doubt that the names on the POL and SE accounts have to be the same.

And can't you try calling support to fix your name? How did you enter it backwards in the first place? Shouldnt you be double checking before submitting important personal information?

I entered mine correctly when I first made my account, and it's now backwards. Kind of unfair for you to assume that everyone whose names are backwards is to blame. Have you checked yours lately? Though I suppose if you made your account within the past 2 years or so it might be in there correctly.

[bungiefan]

I doubt that the names on the POL and SE accounts have to be the same.

And can't you try calling support to fix your name? How did you enter it backwards in the first place? Shouldnt you be double checking before submitting important personal information?

They don't have to be the same. As my name isn't Japanese but my account is, and you had to type in a kanji name, the name on my account isn't mine. The name on my SE account is mine though.

This change is going to be great for people who got FFXI The CORRECT way instead of importing the game from another country before the game even came out in the US or EU.

And what about those people that lived in Japan at launch and then moved out of that country later, for work/school/other reasons...? 9 years is a long time to live in the same place. I've lived at about 6 different addresses in the past 9 years. You can't change the region the address on your account is for if you move out of the region.

The switch to SE IDs may allow us to finally change the region of our accounts though. They did it once with SE IDs, they should be able to do it again.

[Atomic_Skull]

And can't you try calling support to fix your name? How did you enter it backwards in the first place? Shouldnt you be double checking before submitting important personal information?

I didn't enter it backwards. Someone at SE reversed their NA customer's names sometime during 2004-2005 after they changed customer service centers. Japanese put the surname first and given name second so maybe someone working on the customer database switched them around by mistake.

You can't have this changed either, customer service told me that the name on an account cannot be changed under any circumstances, even if they were the ones that messed it up.

[Kuporeid]

And can't you try calling support to fix your name? How did you enter it backwards in the first place?

Names were switched around for people who registered years ago. This was likely because in Japan, surnames come before given names, and that particular part of the NA localization was probably overlooked. This has obviously since been fixed. Even if you call support, they won't switch your name around--basically they'll tell you it's set in stone.

But don't worry! I can safely say, as someone whose name is backwards in POL and forwards in my SE account, there is no problem with your name being in a different order.

[Fyreus]

I doubt that the names on the POL and SE accounts have to be the same.

And can't you try calling support to fix your name? How did you enter it backwards in the first place? Shouldnt you be double checking before submitting important personal information?

When I had my account problems back in the day they also flipped my first and last name. There's a reason they gave the information and there are many others who have the same issue. Also consider how jp names are used in their society.

Secondly support has always been the thorn in our sides except the two or three who will go over and beyond and help

Why they are 'fixong' something that isn't broke is beyond me. If you have more than 1 person on your account you have a higher risk of getting banned. Consider the fact that an account gets banned and not characters and how if you are using a game feature that was broken without knowing there is a possibility of getting you and anyone else banned in the process even a minor who wants fast/easy gil. So far the SE accounts are pretty useless unless you want to post on these forums and has been since implementation.