Request for Name change service

[Mordanthos]

Can we please get a name changing service. 10 dollars seems like a reasonable price. man id do it for 25 dollars. I want to change my character name.

[Khiinroye]

If you lost your character name due to the server merge, there was something that you could do to get flagged for another renaming. I'll look it up and edit it in this post.

Edit: Here.

If you just want to rename your character, it takes $51 and 90 days. (Server transfer using a mule to force a name change, wait for your transfer period to be up, transfer back).

[Alhanelem]

You should pick a name you can live with. making it easy to change names means you'll see even more silly names than you already do, because they know they can change it if they decide a week later that they don't like it.

I think things that aren't meant to be changed shouldn't be changeable.

[svengalis]

I think it should be an option to. I am thinking of doing the server transfer thing but I know soon as I do it se will offer a name change service. Don't know why they don't have one now WoW offers it.

[Alhanelem]

Because if WoW does something, everyone else should.

WoW succeeded because 1) blizzard made it and 2) because it was heavily marketed. Not because every little feature of the game was good.

Imagine how big FFXI could have become (at the time it was the second largest MMO) if FFXI had the level of marketing that WoW did.

[Paksenarrion]

You should pick a name you can live with. making it easy to change names means you'll see even more silly names than you already do, because they know they can change it if they decide a week later that they don't like it.

I think things that aren't meant to be changed shouldn't be changeable.

And that's why you make it cost money to do so. That way, SE makes more money off stupid people!

And it's not like he's saying "FFXI should do what Cataclysm did to WoW." He's just asking for a name change service. Many games offer it, to my knowledge.

It could be worse. Ultima Online, which might as well be considered the granddaddy of MMOs, has a paid service to have a character put near max levels.

Personally, my argument for allowing this service is that I've had the same name since NA PC release. I was less creative then, and my character name was taken from a character my ex really liked...It's a bit of emotional pain when I think about it now.