May we please have a name change option?

Pardon if this has come up a lot before (been away for some months!), but it would be exceedingly good to have the ability to change our characters' names, maybe with the use of a Fantasia.

Other than having its own value for the simple sake of customization, this would be especially good if you plan on adding new races at any point.

From a world-building standpoint, a lot of effort was put into flavorful naming schemes for Eorzea's races, and it really sucks when you might want to try a different race but have something exceedingly inappropriate for anything but the one you started as (case in point, mine can only be for a female Seeker of the Sun miqo'te. :p )

There might be some coding hurdles to jump through to make it possible, but I sincerely believe it'd be worth it, and welcomed by quite a few players.

I think such a thing would be a good addition.

If you don't mind a question though. I've noticed some other miqo'te with interesting names, with apostrophes and such. It brings the question, were there some more in depth lore for their language for them in 1.0 or something? I haven't really found much to understand their naming conventions, other to realize that there is one.

you can change your name, switch the server, create an alt with the same name on the previous server and change back

voila, you have to change the name with your main, you only have to pay for 2 server transfers xD

At the beginning of 2.0, legacy characters were given for a complete Character re-creation, which was basically the Fantasia plus name change.
I bet any returning legacy player today would still have this option available to their legacy character.
It's already in the system, and I don't see it affecting the game balance or system load in anyway.
The question is whether SE is planning to separate this option by creating a potion of name change or something like that, to sell (read:extort) us for more money.
Come on SE, since you are already planning to SELL us the Fantasia, you might as well just throw in a little more bonus feature to make the purchase more worthwhile

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Originally Posted by Cherie

If you don't mind a question though. I've noticed some other miqo'te with interesting names, with apostrophes and such. It brings the question, were there some more in depth lore for their language for them in 1.0 or something? I haven't really found much to understand their naming conventions, other to realize that there is one.

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There is, actually! For every race, at that, and it's kinda neat if you're into this sort of thing. There are "naming convention" posts stickied on the Lore forum.

Have a glimpse down the rabbit hole of nerdiness: This character's name translates as "Anzu of the Zu tribe, daughter of Mahri Nunh".

May we please not have a name change option. The trolling that would occur, the bad players skipping past their bad rep...just no.

technically you already can change name. It's just an expensive procedure:

1: Move your character to another server.
2: Create a character on your original server with the same name as your main character.
3: Move your main character back to your original server. Name change prompt will then occur because your alt has taken your original character's name slot.
4: Delete the alt.

Though I guess this cannot be done if you have the subscription plan that limits you to one character per server :/

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Originally Posted by Alistaire

May we please not have a name change option. The trolling that would occur, the bad players skipping past their bad rep...just no.

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Presumably, since they char would still be the same and not a deleted and recreated character, they would remain in your blacklist with their new name and not [Deleted] so the trolling would be potentially minimal. The confusion however? That's another story.

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Originally Posted by Lithera

Presumably, since they char would still be the same and not a deleted and recreated character, they would remain in your blacklist with their new name and not [Deleted] so the trolling would be potentially minimal. The confusion however? That's another story.

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Precisely this; this is how name-changes work in all other games. No lists are affected, and the name gets updated everywhere.

As far as the social issue of letting your friends, raid-mates, etc. know who you are, it's the same as rolling alts has always been in games like this.

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Originally Posted by Bluevann

technically you already can change name. It's just an expensive procedure:

1: Move your character to another server.
2: Create a character on your original server with the same name as your main character.
3: Move your main character back to your original server. Name change prompt will then occur because your alt has taken your original character's name slot.
4: Delete the alt.

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I'm totally doing this - how much does a server transfer cost? Like 12 bucks? How long does it take? If its a total cost of $24, I would probably pay $15 to change my name anyways, so I'm only overpaying by 9 bucks, which isn't bad because everyone thinks my name is "I Hate Fates" Which...I mean...I kind of do, but that's not the intention.

That would be great!

Lets add more ways people can troll and get away with it...

Yeah it seems like a good idea, but I think there will be more trolls coming from it than honest people wanting to change their name to fit within the lore. Blacklisting is not an option for me, I only have room for RMT spammers on there. Lol. I usually just be sure to take a mental picture of the bad players on my server. So name recognition is big for me. If these players were able to change their name and continue to be d-bags because they can continuely change their name would be very frustrating to me.

I would like the option as well. If time has proven anything about the FF community, it's that it's impossible to escape a bad reputation. I don't think there is an XI player alive who doesn't know who Feiwong is and that guy was all over the place. Somehow, the community always tracked him down.

Yeah but...if it costs $20....it would take some serious financial commitments to continue to troll....

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Originally Posted by Ehayte

Yeah but...if it costs $20....it would take some serious financial commitments to continue to troll....

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It costs $18 to transfer servers.

An easy to acquire name change would be a night mare for RMT tracking and black listing terrible people that deserve to be known. This is the internet policing that has been around in the communities for years. To make name changes so simple and easy with no regards to a limit I can understand why it would be unwanted.

I have been waiting for this too and asking nearly everyday. They said MONTHS ago they would give us namingway name change cards/options...still waiting for when this is happening.

Does not make sense to be able to change your race/gender but not name. So if I am a female lalafell named Princess Peach and I change to a male miqote...that is not going to work too well lol.

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Originally Posted by Ayiana_Arch

It costs $18 to transfer servers.

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Thanks - I asked that question a few posts ago and you responded to a different post of mine, lol. So it would cost $36 to change your name right now.

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Originally Posted by Karnyboy

An easy to acquire name change would be a night mare for RMT tracking and black listing terrible people that deserve to be known. This is the internet policing that has been around in the communities for years. To make name changes so simple and easy with no regards to a limit I can understand why it would be unwanted.

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If you make it cost money its a non-issue, it would cut too deeply into RMT's balance sheets to make it worth while.

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Originally Posted by Karnyboy

An easy to acquire name change would be a night mare for RMT tracking and black listing terrible people that deserve to be known. This is the internet policing that has been around in the communities for years. To make name changes so simple and easy with no regards to a limit I can understand why it would be unwanted.

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I direct you to my earlier post. They would remain in your blacklist under the new name unless the used the current method of server jumping.

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Originally Posted by Souljacker

I would like the option as well. If time has proven anything about the FF community, it's that it's impossible to escape a bad reputation. I don't think there is an XI player alive who doesn't know who Feiwong is and that guy was all over the place. Somehow, the community always tracked him down.

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It isn't hard to avoid gaining a bad reputation. Simple human decency will usually suffice. If someone can't manage that then yes, they are not welcome in the game, they will never be welcome in the game, and they SHOULD be trackable and hounded until they leave the game for good. People can change for the better, it is true - so, these people should accept that they made a mistake, take their changed self to a new game and start fresh with new friends and companions.

There are good reasons to allow name changing and appearance changing. Granting folks the ability to escape a bad reputation is not one of those good reasons. Self-policing through ostricization is pretty much the only recourse left when it comes to bad eggs that don't technically break any rules (and therefore have no grounds for banning).

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Originally Posted by Lithera

Presumably, since they char would still be the same and not a deleted and recreated character, they would remain in your blacklist with their new name and not [Deleted] so the trolling would be potentially minimal. The confusion however? That's another story.

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Yeah because my blacklist is used for trolls with a bad rep...I couldn't fit a single one on there if I tried. 200 RMT and still get spammed non stop.

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Originally Posted by Alistaire

May we please not have a name change option. The trolling that would occur, the bad players skipping past their bad rep...just no.

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I think you're placing too high a relevance to "rep." But besides that, some bad players (not sure if you mean bad attitudes, bad at playing, or both) might actually evolve. It would be pretty harsh to saddle someone with the bad player reputation who has reformed their attitude and/or play. Not to mention there are already work arounds (switching servers, then switching back, etc.) It seems pointless to deny people nice things just because some people will take advantage. This was, is, and will be true of any nice thing ever.

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Originally Posted by Purrfectstorm

I think you're placing too high a relevance to "rep." But besides that, some bad players (not sure if you mean bad attitudes, bad at playing, or both) might actually evolve. It would be pretty harsh to saddle someone with the bad player reputation who has reformed their attitude and/or play. Not to mention there are already work arounds (switching servers, then switching back, etc.) It seems pointless to deny people nice things just because some people will take advantage. This was, is, and will be true of any nice thing ever.

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An exceedingly good point, and I'm not remotely convinced that "reputation" is a driving force behind player interactions to begin with. Players with poor attitudes who are unable to do well with others are a self-regulating phenomenon (they aren't having fun and so they don't keep playing, at least never for long stretches) -- and as bad a rap as internet anonymity gets, trolls and griefers are actually rather few and far between in this game. The same cannot be said of every MMO, but so far, this one has done alright in that respect.

There are enough ways to make social connections through FCs, alliances, and various linkshells that good communities will form up and maintain themselves as they continue playing together, and also form a regulating force against the occasional bad egg. The ability to change one's name makes ultimately little difference here.

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Originally Posted by ServerCollaps

you only have to pay for 2 server transfers xD

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ONLY 2 SERVER TRANSFERS?! Gee whiz I sure am glad I have all this extra money laying around! Thanks for the convenience squeenix. /thumbsup

I would love to see a name change option, with fantasia becoming available on the mog station now people who attempt to use lore appropriate names end up a little punished there.

They could always limit name changes so that people aren't constantly switching around (the way that they are limiting how many fantasia you can buy). As for me, I only want to change my name -once-. And I'm sure a lot of people feel that way. It's not like everyone wants a new name every week. But it's frustrating that the only way open to us at the moment is the expensive server transfer option.

And the point was made earlier that with name changes, people will still remain on your blacklist so that shouldn't be an issue. And it would be a shame to let a few bad eggs ruin things for all the players who don't cause problems.

It would be nice to hear some official response if name changes will become available or will never happen. So that we know if its something we can look forward to or not.