Offer a name change feature for FFXI SE.

[Juri_Licious]

Yeah, hopefully a staff member responds to this. There obviously are quite a few people interested in this.

[svengalis]

Yeah, hopefully a staff member responds to this. There obviously are quite a few people interested in this.

And this isn't the first or second time this has been brought up.

[Juri_Licious]

And this isn't the first or second time this has been brought up.

Three times a charm?

[Savlyn]

Bottom line is from a business standpoint, they should've done this years ago. For $5, I know a ton of people (myself included) who would have changed their name at least once- especially after the server merges. If they don't want to charge real money (Yeah right) then they could make it cost gil and be somewhat expensive. From the looks of the most recent ideas for taxes, they want to get excess gil out of the economy. If you don't support a name change... then don't change your name. As far as /blist goes, it tracks the account, so people won't be able to "get out of jail free". Having this would simply make it so that players would not have to get around the current system, either by the old way of deleting and reactivating a character, or by hoping servers to name change.

[Alhanelem]

If you don't support a name change... then don't change your name.

It goes without saying that anyone who doesn't support name changes isn't going to change their name. They don't want other people to be able to do it either, and with good reason.

[Juri_Licious]

It goes without saying that anyone who doesn't support name changes isn't going to change their name. They don't want other people to be able to do it either, and with good reason.

The only reason so far is "I don't want them to hide from meeee!". Wouldn't call that a good reason.

[Soranika]

It goes without saying that anyone who doesn't support name changes isn't going to change their name. They don't want other people to be able to do it either, and with good reason.

Seriously, what "good reason" would that be?

[Alhanelem]

Seriously, what "good reason" would that be?

Seriously, haven't you read the thread? Name changing makes it easier for jerks/douches/etc to screw over other people after taking the drops/ls bank/gil/etc and running. It does and has happened with server transfers. If you're actively trying to figure out who's bad and who isn't, you can study the cross server boards on BG, but if you're not someone who lurks on community sites a lot, you're not going to be doing that.

Not being able to change things like this is also supposed to encourage people to put more thought into them. You see a lot more nonsense/silly names when you know you can just change it after it gets old. Not to mention the bandwagon namechanges when some new monster comes out or some character in some anime becomes popular. I see it all the time. After Odin came out, we got more than one server transfer resulting in a name change to one of Odin's TP moves etc.

Frivolous names and reputation escape attempts to me is something to be concerned about.

[Seriha]

This isn't 2005 anymore. Most any mob of importance can be spawned at will. As a result, the rarity of equipment isn't nearly as bad, nor the incentive to ninja lot (typically the highest risk when PUGing, so why not do such things with friends?) is as present. You certainly can't ninja VW or WoE drops. SE's added new BCs, but they don't seem terribly popular (no doubt because people don't have many seals).

And has been noted, name changes can be achieved in a roundabout manner. As someone who played on Fairy/Sylph, I certainly give a rat's behind to follow what was going on on Odin, Alexander, Bahamut, or whatever other server. Only those that craved and no doubt instigated drama would care. Pretty much anything you "fear" out of a bad apple can be circumvented by a good party/linkshell leader (arrange who gets drops beforehand, utilize QM or don't lot/pass as appropriate with the readiness to kick mysteriously "idle" players) or, in the case of ToS violations, GMed. The latter would follow them regardless of what name they adopted on a particular account.

[Greatguardian]

Because Ninja lotting and theft are the only reasons that people may want to escape their names.

Ever heard of Vigor or Xrela? Welfare?