Change character(s) name(s)

[Dazusu]

1. This is not simply for bragging rights, but also for accountability.

No one is accountable to other players. SE have tools to allow them to track these things by account ID. Doing it by character name would be slow and tedious.

By not changing history, mules can essentially tamper with the economy, and "vanish" under the guise of a witness-protection-program for the in-game Mob.

Delete and Create new character?

2. For signed items, my philosophy is this: although some people say "who cares, people can just recraft it" the point is that there WILL be players who will want their signed gear to carry over a name change.

There's a line.

like me, who say "who cares, just create a new character if you want a different name/race."

Your credibility for a serious debate just took a hike.

3. Player reputation--or lack thereof. If a name has been associated with labels of "terrible LS leader" or "total asshat noob" you want to be able to avoid those players in the future.

Such features normally have a 90 day limit. If someone if that bad of an asshat, they might find keeping up a ruse for 90 days pretty though. If they turn over a new leaf, what's your problem with it?

[Llana_Virren]

No one is accountable to other players.

Which is why no one should have to give up an old account name, even an inactive one just to humor your whim.

Your credibility for a serious debate just took a hike.

I just repeated your argument back to you. You want to have a new character name... make a new character. Why should development time be wasted on implementing something as trivial as a name change, when there are more important issues, like modifying NM resistances, job changes, etc.?

Such features normally have a 90 day limit. If someone if that bad of an asshat, they might find keeping up a ruse for 90 days pretty though. If they turn over a new leaf, what's your problem with it?

If you bothered reading the -rest- of my post, you'd see I don't have a problem with it. My problem is that there are more important things that should be worked on, than to argue about old accounts having all the cool names taken.

[Belmonts]

Which is why no one should have to give up an old account name, even an inactive one just to humor your whim.

Really I'm thinking over the guys who choose a good char name, played 4-5 years ago for like 3 months and quit for good. But again is making me to put a time-limit without any research whatsoever on the DB info. But pretty sure I'm not exaggerating that they are plenty of those cases.

You want to have a new character name... make a new character. Why should development time be wasted on implementing something as trivial as a name change,

Because is not a matter of making a new char with a new name, is to be able to get names that are lost forever in a deactivated account that is, probably, never going to be activated again.

Point is really.
* If it does exist and is on an active account = you're screwed and you must rename/make a new char and as you kindly stated, we deal with it.
* If it does exist on a long ago deactivated account = sorry, but that name should be available again.

when there are more important issues, like modifying NM resistances, job changes, etc.?

Oh I can't be more agree with you on that, but honestly this service implementation shouldn't be an excuse/reason for SE to be as lazy/slow with the in-game stuff that is necessary. Even they can/are pipe-lining a lot of stuff so should't be a problem at all. ^_^