Please allow us to change the name of our characters

So after contacting the GMs a second time, couple months after the first request there still isn't some kind of name change service in sight. Though I won't get into much details why I wish for mine, I'll just drop the word 'ex' and let you guess the rest. There are other people in similar situations to mine and people may want to change their name like they may wish to change the appearance/cosmetics of their character.

I don't really care if I have to spend a few extra bucks for it, or if it's some kind of subscription reward may give out in the future but I'd appreciate if you would take this into consideration.

let me guess. online ex?

First, that is nothing a GM would be able to help with. Secondly I do believe they mentioned this would be added later on but I can see as to why they are reluctant to do so. Your name is your reputation. If they handed them out willy-nilly an Officer/Master could empty the Free Company bank and name change and stay on the same server and none would be the wiser.

If the population on your server got tired of someone trolling and being a general ass to everyone, bam name change and they can go incognito. So if they do add it I think it should cost money and have a year long cooldown at best.

Wobi, you're being ridiculous. Abuse like that would not happen anywhere near as frequently as it would have to in order to justify absurd restrictions like "year long cooldown". The vast majority of folk who make use of name change would do it because they race changed using a vial of fantasia and their name no longer matches their character. It's that simple.

My personal opinion is they should not allow name changes without first having a way to pin a player to the account for others to see. We need to have identity as a way to assist other players and the community to weed out those that behave poorly.

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Originally Posted by Naunet

Wobi, you're being ridiculous. Abuse like that would not happen anywhere near as frequently as it would have to in order to justify absurd restrictions like "year long cooldown". The vast majority of folk who make use of name change would do it because they race changed using a vial of fantasia and their name no longer matches their character. It's that simple.

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I pray that it doesn't happen to you then, I've seen this happen across several MMO's in my gaming history. Don't be naive, not everyone out there is nice :/
It only takes one bad egg to ruin quite a few peoples day, also several FC are stockpiling gil for upcoming housing update to there would be a lot to lose right now.

OP comsetic changes are coming with the new patch coming up mid month.

I don't remember where the link is but don't worry they said they will be adding Namingway cards to rename yourself in the near future.

The first thing that came to my mind is that RMT could change their names and get off the blacklist. Alternatively, those who have been hacked and were shouting RMT spam against their will could get a second start without having to start all over again. It really is a double-bladed sword.

There is a way: Transfer to a world where a character of your name currently exists. Since 2 players on the same world cannot have the same name, you will be forced to change your name.

They are however coming out with an item for this... Estimated release date: Probably 2.2

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Originally Posted by ruinedmirage

The first thing that came to my mind is that RMT could change their names and get off the blacklist.

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It's pretty clear that the blacklisted name is tied to the account, so a blacklisted person who changed their name would remain on your blacklist, just with a new name.

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Originally Posted by MieyCyruuuus

let me guess. online ex?

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is it this? cause if it is wouldn't it be easier to just /blist him? or did u already do that and it isn't working?

support, i guess some ppl would require this.

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Originally Posted by Wobi

Don't be naive, not everyone out there is nice

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I could use the same logic here and say not everyone has bad intentions. Just make it so your new name replaces the old on people's blacklists and friends lists. People can already currently server transfer as a method of changing their names, so not allowing the service due to this reason is silly.

I personally want to race change and would love to change my name to match my new race. Nothing malicious about that, and the feature is pretty standard for MMOs nowadays.

I could get behind this, as long as the UI in some way still contains your old name.

Like if you examine someone, or search them or something it could say 'Formerly: Joe Bob" or something like that. That way you can't escape your reputation necessarily but you can change the name for RP reasons or for 'ex' reasons.

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Originally Posted by Norack

is it this? cause if it is wouldn't it be easier to just /blist him? or did u already do that and it isn't working?

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Either that or the OP named their character after the ex like some people do with bad tattoos.
Changing names is a serious thing online though, it's not something that should be changed as easily as a haircut.

If you could change your last name to Uchiha, odds are he wouldn't be able to tell you apart from all the other people with the last name. You'd be hiding in plain site! Just another fish in the school, or fly in the lotion!

I don't see any harm in allowing people to change their name, as long as there is a way to see what they were formerly known by. Otherwise couple with Fantasia people could do some pretty nasty things then simply reinvent themselves.

I know the vast majority wouldn't be doing this, but even if one person did it and got away with it that's too much.

Have an item to changue even the sex of your character but not your name is a failure xD

But I woud like to be able to see wich names had a player character. Or , way better , create a "Plublic account name" (Not the one we use for login) and let us see that account name.

Simple solution, add Phantasia Potion on the Mog Station you can buy with real cash and include a Name change with the potion. Make a cool down where you can only do it once per Month. Now it can't be abused that much and RMT won't use it at all.

I to would like a name change option, after I took my fantasia my name no longer fits. Never liked having to pick a last name in the first place. But, I agree that people will abuse the system. So make it a real life cash transaction and make it 25$, not a cheap 10$. Hell make it 50$, I don't really care, but SE needs to do something to stop RMT and little kids from abusing the system.

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Originally Posted by Mekhana

So after contacting the GMs a second time, couple months after the first request there still isn't some kind of name change service in sight. Though I won't get into much details why I wish for mine, I'll just drop the word 'ex' and let you guess the rest. There are other people in similar situations to mine and people may want to change their name like they may wish to change the appearance/cosmetics of their character.

I don't really care if I have to spend a few extra bucks for it, or if it's some kind of subscription reward may give out in the future but I'd appreciate if you would take this into consideration.

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Come to excalibur and play with me in The mean time :)

It can be abused, it will be abused. Your name is your name. If they don't add a feature to identify a character to the account than it will be abused as it is on WoW. You are who you are, and there should be no escaping it.

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Originally Posted by ruinedmirage

The first thing that came to my mind is that RMT could change their names and get off the blacklist. Alternatively, those who have been hacked and were shouting RMT spam against their will could get a second start without having to start all over again. It really is a double-bladed sword.

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If Square operates this like every other game with an /ignore list, then that won't happen. Games like WoW or ToR (those are the only two i've played since XI), are tagged to the character itself, not the name.

Though, I already know that blacklist just tries to hide the text rather than actually blocking a person from sending you messages.. so who knows how their broken system would be with name changes.

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Originally Posted by Mags

It can be abused, it will be abused. Your name is your name. If they don't add a feature to identify a character to the account than it will be abused as it is on WoW. You are who you are, and there should be no escaping it.

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The amount of abuse that you think will happen is far higher than the abuse that will ever happen. Of course there are going to be people that abuse the system, though the guild-leaders that do this will be few and far between; And if someone was to take the gil and run, they would more than likely move off server as there would be no chance of someone recognizing them at that point instead of trying to act different for any end-game groups that might know them by their old name (It's very hard to change mannerisms, even the 'speech' pattern in how you type.)

There is a name change system, it just costs a lot and you have to wait a long time.

Create a character on another server with the same name as your main. Transfer your main to that server and it will make you change your name. Then transfer your character back.

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Originally Posted by lokinmodar

Come to excalibur and play with me in The mean time :)

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haha hey lokin

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Originally Posted by Mekhana

So after contacting the GMs a second time, couple months after the first request there still isn't some kind of name change service in sight. Though I won't get into much details why I wish for mine, I'll just drop the word 'ex' and let you guess the rest. There are other people in similar situations to mine and people may want to change their name like they may wish to change the appearance/cosmetics of their character.

I don't really care if I have to spend a few extra bucks for it, or if it's some kind of subscription reward may give out in the future but I'd appreciate if you would take this into consideration.

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Even tho gil is useless, i feel like you wanna steal a FC bank and that nobody would find you

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Originally Posted by Whippet

Even tho gil is useless, i feel like you wanna steal a FC bank and that nobody would find you

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Sure that might happen if there was anything in the bank to steal. It's not gil that is useless, the bank itself is useless because permissions were thought out irresponsibly and it's so clunky and awkward to use now that I can see it again after a couple months.

By the way here is the almighty Federal Bank of the Edelweiss Free Company, I'd be such a master thief by lifting all those raisins. After all, I'd be stealing from myself since I'm the only person with bank permissions.

http://i.imgur.com/Sg5TawT.png?1

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Originally Posted by Mekhana

I'd be such a master thief by lifting all those raisins.

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Those aren't raisins! They're prunes. No one with active taste buds would steal those.