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    Player LunaticVoice's Avatar
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    Character Name Change Service

    I created this thread to discuss the possibilities of a character name change service. Since additional character slots cost money and there's little purpose in having an alt aside from mule duties many people stick with their original character for many years. Just like the game, people change and I'm sure there are many people who wish they could choose a new name for their character.

    Many games offer character name change services such as Guild Wars, World of Warcraft, and Age of Conan. These games have a paid service similar to the World Transfer Service and serve to both keep players content and earn some additional income for the companies. Does anyone know the reasoning behind why there is no Character Name Change Service even after 9 years of developing the game?

    Are you for it or against it? I don't see why anyone would be against adding an option to change your character's name, but there has to be counterargument or I'd imagine SE would have done it by now.
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    If there's a fee for it. It'd be easy for a person to be a complete jerk, then change his name to avoid a negative reputation.
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    i can see people being against it back on my old server we had a guy who was a LS leader steal the ls bank and swich servers and change his name so as not to be cot he get over 40mil in items and gear. if sum one could just pay $10 for it they mite do it more
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    Player LunaticVoice's Avatar
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    Quote Originally Posted by katiekat View Post
    i can see people being against it back on my old server we had a guy who was a LS leader steal the ls bank and swich servers and change his name so as not to be cot he get over 40mil in items and gear. if sum one could just pay $10 for it they mite do it more
    That is a very good point, I had not considered that.
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    Player katiekat's Avatar
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    Quote Originally Posted by LunaticVoice View Post
    That is a very good point, I had not considered that.
    yea its part of why i moved servers my whole ls broke up over it
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    am dyslexic and have a learning disablement from when i died as a baby and sustained brain damage do to lack of oxygen pleas pardon my bad spelling and grammar

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    Quote Originally Posted by katiekat View Post
    i can see people being against it back on my old server we had a guy who was a LS leader steal the ls bank and swich servers and change his name so as not to be cot he get over 40mil in items and gear. if sum one could just pay $10 for it they mite do it more
    Well I'm for having character name change services. On the other note maybe SE should make a Linkshell Moogle for linkshell registration and banking. "registration i mean if a ls leader decided to leave the remaining ls members can elect a new leader or inpeach a leader." btw sorry got a little sidetracked.
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    Player LunaticVoice's Avatar
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    If possible I would really like a SE representative to comment on the topic since otherwise we'll just be going off speculation to figure out why a character name change service doesn't already exist.
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    I personally wouldn't mind it. Some of my friends had their names taken from them during server merge because people who didn't like them created mules on Bismarck with their names and forced them to get name changes. It'd be nice if these people could change their names back.

    And sometimes people get tired of a name. I see nothing wrong with a name change. When people screw over a shell and jump servers and change names, they're almost always caught. I think they'd continue to be caught.
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    More griefing with less reprecussions? No thanks.
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    It'd be easy for a person to be a complete jerk, then change his name to avoid a negative reputation.
    More griefing with less reprecussions? No thanks.
    Excuse me but griefers and item/ls bank thiefs already have a way to change names, a name change service isn't going to impact the situation at all. Mule on target server > server change > rename character > got away clean. Why should us legit persons not have an option to do the same name change without the server change?


    Side note: I'd really like to get my old character name back, which I know darn well is not in use.
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