Customizable titles? As an optional service in Mog station perhaps?

I'm kind of sick of all those cliche titles that are available to choose. 'Stormlady', 'The Heart of the Party', 'Defender of Eorzea'... etc... I'd rather have something like 'The Windows Cleaner', 'One who spills milk'... and such.
If we can have customizable titles, that would be great.
Heck, I would definitely pay if I could have this title under my character's name, 'One who eats cereal with Coke'.

Sadly, this would get obnoxiously out of hand very quickly.

It would be a good idea in theory ... All titles would have to be GM modded before use to make sure that the titles aren't offensive or sexual or anything of that nature.

an idea that would sound good only on appear i am afraid, you would assume people would use it to use like "lord" or "lady" or even one like "hired sword" which would be glorious for rp resons but how long until you get one like "man with the longest dik" or "herm leader" or even "pooped pants" the idea starts becoming very obnoxious and vulgar and thats not assuming people don't try to use political titles or even titles that may offend people by associating them with extremists in the real world, keeping to pre-set tittles eliminates the chance for these ideas, you can see it with names, there was once a "christian truereligon" on ragnarok before his name changed to christian "sky hand" or something to that, not only this but the amount of joke names alone should show as to why this idea, would ultimately fail.

Aside from the posts above... I really feel that titles should be earned, not just paid for and customized, etc.
I'm all for "comic relief" titles that can be rewarded via quests, crafting, battling, etc, but custom ones would definitely get out of hand.

Whenever people get the option to customize emblems or titles, alot of people just revert their age mentality back to 13.

Of course there will be someone abusing it if this was implemented. So how about we regulate it? Every title must first be reviewed before they can appear on-screen.

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Originally Posted by GhibliTheSW

I'm kind of sick of all those cliche titles that are available to choose. 'Stormlady', 'The Heart of the Party', 'Defender of Eorzea'... etc...

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This is why I don't use titles on my character name, personally. It gets old seeing the same titles everywhere, but I think personalized ones could get out of hand very quickly so I wouldn't mind the option to just turn them off to simplify things.

I actually liked the way it was done in XI where your current/preferred title showed up under your profile when examined and your ls was color coded by your char name. I think they tried something like that in 1.0 with FC crests, was disappointed that they'd scrapped it. Yeah, I'm a bit of a minimalist...

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Originally Posted by Eye_Gore

Whenever people get the option to customize emblems or titles, alot of people just revert their age mentality back to 13.

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I can only speak for me here....and I know that I would. Plus, I'd likely spend way too much money on it.

Though I like the concept, I do suspect there would be some rather harsh restrictions implemented on creation of custom titles otherwise it would get rather silly.

I also can understand about seeing the same handful of titles repeated over everyone's head. It's one of the main reasons I recently turned off player names/titles as it gets frustrating to see a sea of names everywhere.

On the bright side, there are still some few titles that are rarely used though unsure if they're maybe 1.0 titles. I've only ever met a handful of people who have the same "Princess for a day" title above their heads as I do.

I would love this idea. I want the title Pirate Princess or Scary Witch. It's a shame we can't have nice things cause people are always afraid others will "abuse it"

I could easily see this getting abused. Very easily. And yes.. people would pay money to abuse it.

Personally, i don't care at all for titles. I don't have one set for myself, and i unchecked the option to display them on everyone else as well.

And while i dont like the idea of 100% customizable titles, i can totally see a title-system like the one used in Monster Hunter games.

Basically you can create a custom title, but you can only compose it from a list of set options.


It works like this:

You have 3 input boxes with pull-down menues for various words.

[Box1] [Box2] [Box3]

Box1 and Box3 have words like names, places, items, colors, etc...

While Box2 has words like from, of, the, with, etc...

And with that you can create your title but can't use inappropriate language, like:

[Heart] [of the] [Party]

[Stalwart] [] [Shield]

[] [the] [Hero]

[Warrior] [of] [Darkness]


In Monster Hunter, you even expand the list of useable words with certain challenges and number of slain monsters. i.e:

You finished this years Heavensturn >> unlocked "Sheep"

You killed 100 tonberrys >> unlocked "Tonberry"

You killed 500 tonberrys >> unlocked "Tonberry King"

You killed 1,000 tonberrys >> unlocked "Grudge"

Cash shop/Mog Station titles interesting....
[I'm too lazy to work for my achievements]

No thanks.

On a slightly unrelated note, I kind of miss some of the abstract clever titles from FFXI like "Silencer of the Rams" or "Mary's Guide" (for killing Stray Mary... I guess we were supposed to guide her to heaven =p)

I personally prefer titles to be something that's earned and for them to have real meaning behind them. Like if you were able to do a really hard achievement or took out the latest raid boss. That and clever or entertaining ones. I really wanted the crazy cat lady title back when I still played WoW for example. :3

Either way, I typically prefer titles that require actual work and i love seeing people with obscure or 'hardcore' titles sometimes. Oh and titles that are retired as well are cool to see.

I can't wait until I finally earn one I can feel proud of now that I'm back and playing like a mad woman to catch up. ♥

I turn other people's titles off anyway.
I don't get the impression it'd be used for something besides something earned. Plus if this did happen I'd imagine many would ruin it with bad unfunny innuendos.