Do you regret your name choice?

Celes Chere! mules Yuffie Kisaragi, Agrias Oaks, and some other notable names. Also I have Celes Chere on other servers as I wasn't sure which server to remain on in the beginning.

Mog Net

happy with mine, I chose it because it's short and simple so people can remember and type it easily. I get annoyed when I'm trying to invite a player from search and have to type out a really long complex name and have to keep checking chat for how it's spelt.

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Originally Posted by Leeloo

Despite being a lore-based Roegadyn name, I get the feeling some people are wondering if I'm RMT when they first see it.:D I still like it though.

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I suspect a lot of Sea Wolves (or worse yet, characters originally created as Sea Wolves then Fantasia'ed to another race) have that problem. Lore appropriate names for them have some letter combinations that aren't widely used in English so could be mistaken for the random ones most RMT spammers use. (Is that Welsh they come from? Looks kind of like Welsh to me, but I'm no linguist.)

Oh, and to answer the thread's question for myself, no I don't regret the names of any of my characters, but then again, I don't use Fantasia to change races or genders. When I want to play another race or gender, I just create another character.

Navarre Greave (Hyur, Midlander, male)
Y'kayah Tia (Miqo'te, Seeker of the Sun, male)
Dylise Fieltaire (Elezen, Duskwight, female)
Tatala Tala (Lalafell, Dunesfolk, female)
Ardent Sky (Roegadyn, Hellsguard, female)
Fyrgeim Drysfalkwyn (Roegadyn, Sea Wolf, female)

I love my name and I don't think I'll ever change it.

No regrets here. At all. I adopted my first name from someone I use to game with longggg ago on a MMO that's shut down now. My last name is from H.P. Lovecraft. I discovered him while attempting to brush up on my writing for forum RPing. Of course after reading one of his short stories I realized that emulating his style wasn't a good idea. lol.

Not really. I just checked the Lodestone and no one else on any other server has my name, so it's one of a kind.

Soulfire is from my favorite comic book artist, Michael Turner. Originally, she was very similar to the main character Grace, and was a Midlander with hair of teal and light green. Now, I'm highlander and no longer look like the character, but I've had thoughts of changing my hair back to the teal-green combo.

Lol, mine drives me mad a little bit.

I gave my character the last name "Hightide" because it is a literal translation of my real last name. I was months into the game before someone said, "Oh, Hightide? Because Highwind was already taken?". It then dawned on me; what I thought was a very unique way of creating a name for my character looks like simply another attempt to solidify my fandom by naming my character after the various other Highwinds in the series. Dammit.

My characters appearance has changed several times... from race, to hair, to lip color, to highlights, scars, tattoos, face paint, etc..

One thing will never change: Zlatan Tarrant.

There is one thing that pisses me off though is that everyone calls me just Zlat. I know its convenient and I don't really mind that much but when you put the time and effort into creating the perfect name for your character, when it gets shortened to basically just a sound effect... its a bit disappointing.

my name is an icebreaker for a lot of geeky conversations with strangers. it's a welcome break from mind numbing hunts.

Yes and no. I mean I really do like the name Eclair. But not because I love doughnuts. Eclair meaning lightning in French.
I find it a bit funny that only French ppl would ask if my name actually meant to be lightning and not the pastry. Everyone else is like, "HEY DOUGHNUT!!"
"WHY DID YOU NAME YOUR CHARACTER AFTER A PASTRY?"
Actually it means Lightning in French.
"NOPE YOU'RE STILL A SOFT CAKE."

As for my last name... I just went creative to make it.

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Originally Posted by Lord_Zlatan

One thing will never change: Zlatan Tarrant.

There is one thing that pisses me off though is that everyone calls me just Zlat. I know its convenient and I don't really mind that much but when you put the time and effort into creating the perfect name for your character, when it gets shortened to basically just a sound effect... its a bit disappointing.

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On the subject of how people shorten names, my main is my Miqo'te, Y'kayah Tia, and most people just call him by the shorter part, Tia. But by Sun-seeker name conventions "Tia" just indicates that he's a non-breeding male. And the "Y'" part indicates which tribe he's from. It's the middle part, "kayah", that's actually his personal name. Nobody has ever called me "kayah".

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Originally Posted by Bixby

My reason for choosing Kai is better than theirs, though.

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So your name is And And? Lol...unique that's for sure

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Originally Posted by NorthernLadMSP

Not really. I just checked the Lodestone and no one else on any other server has my name, so it's one of a kind.

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Originally Posted by Lord_Zlatan

I know its convenient and I don't really mind that much but when you put the time and effort into creating the perfect name for your character, when it gets shortened to basically just a sound effect... its a bit disappointing.

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I relate to both of these. I made my name up playing D&D like 15 years ago, and have used it ever since. I've been on this game since the ARR release and I'm still the only one who has ever spelled the first name like this. The last name is pretty popular, obviously..

But yeah, my static in vchat just calls me Inda. (in-duh) But I think it's because everyone mispronounced my name when we first met. They were putting the emphasis in the letter a of my first name and pronouncing it (in-dah-key), when I have always pronounced it with letter a sounding more like an "uh" sound and emphasis on the second letter I (in-duh-ki). Not too big of a deal but it annoyed me enough to always correct my friends, so they just call me Inda now lol.

Every once in awhile they will purposely mispronounce it just to mess with me.

But I am very happy with my name.

SE, please give us the ability to change our names. I will pay for it if the price was reasonable. Win-win for both players and SE.

My name is the character I created, and I typically use it in some fashion in any MMORPG that I play. So, no. I definitely don't regret it at all.

I also have two other character names I have created that I generally use for alts as well.

After looking around the forums I kind of wish I had chosen a lore-friendly name, but I still like my name after several months, so it all works out.

I made this character name under the absolute perverse nature that I wanted my character to look... while it was a male Miqo'te. Just visually mind you, I really don't care for the overly perverse attitude that would match it. Walking around with nothing but the bard hat/heels and some scandalous swimwear as a male miqo'te while holding purple sparklers made me a big attention *****. The name seems original enough that I still like it now too.

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Originally Posted by Niwashi

Well, if you're thinking of transferring servers anyway, then the workaround of forcing a name change by creating a name conflict on your destination server doesn't have the drawbacks for you that it does for those wanting to stay on their current server. Just before putting in for the server transfer, create an alt on the new server you plan to move to and name that alt Marcella Cat. After that, when you move your main character there, she can't have the same name, so you'll be prompted to change it.

I think to do it yourself might require having a standard subscription (the type that allows you to have multiple alts on the same server). If you have a basic subscription, then you might not be able to transfer to a server where you already have an alt. So if that's the case, just let us know where you want to transfer to and one of us could create that alt for you.

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Awww, thanks! I really want the Gun class to be revealed so that I can know if I want to play it or not.

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Originally Posted by Elim

No regrets here. At all. I adopted my first name from someone I use to game with longggg ago on a MMO that's shut down now. My last name is from H.P. Lovecraft. I discovered him while attempting to brush up on my writing for forum RPing. Of course after reading one of his short stories I realized that emulating his style wasn't a good idea. lol.

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Why you change race :(

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Originally Posted by Alukah

Why you change race :(

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he make a good decision to join the master race !