I hope we get to change our character names, too.

SE has said that once version 2.0 hits, those of us with existing characters will have the option to completely re-customize our race, gender, and appearance.

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Originally Posted by Square-Enix

The new graphics engine will cause certain objects to display differently than they do in the current version.
Because of this, we will allow all current players the opportunity to re-customize the race, gender, and appearance of their characters upon the implementation of the new engine.

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~ from New FFXIV Outline, page 8

When this happens, I plan to change my current female Miqo'te into a male one. However, given that my current character name, Rhianu, is explicitly female, I want to be able to change my character's name to something more masculine to match the new gender.

Also, I want to get rid of my character's surname. Surnames make the character name too long. One name only, please!

your name is part of the characater customization process. Especially given changing your race potentially means a change in gender, it's safe to assume you'll be able to change it.

I would assume you can change the name, it would make no sense if they didn't let you.

Yea it would be kind of dumb to have a girls name on a guy character or the other way around. I would hope we get to change names too, even though it doesn't list name changes.

I hope you're all right. I've been wanting to change my name for a long time

I love my character's name and wouldn't change a thing. Might do something with her looks though :D

Really hoping for a name change for one of my characters also. ^^b
I hope SE has considered this.

As I suggested in another thread, perhaps we could have our old name above out new name, but kind of greyed out just for a month or two, so people won't worry about name-changers taking advantage of a new name in a negative way.

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Really hoping for a name change for one of my characters also. ^^b
I hope SE has considered this.

As I suggested in another thread, perhaps we could have our old name above out new name, but kind of greyed out just for a month or two, so people won't worry about name-changers taking advantage of a new name in a negative way.

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This seems like a very reasonable solution.

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Originally Posted by Nabiri

so people won't worry about name-changers taking advantage of a new name in a negative way.

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How could anyone possibly take advantage of name changing in a negative way? That makes no sense.

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Originally Posted by Rhianu

How could anyone possibly take advantage of name changing in a negative way? That makes no sense.

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It makes little sense to me either, but it has been brought up. XD
I suppose an example would be.. one person taking advantage of or cheating a LS in some way, changing their name so no one knows them, and being able to do it again.
It sounds unlikely to happen, to me.. but I suppose it's possible. So if it would ease people's minds if our old name was shown for a while, I'd gladly accept the annoyance for a while if it meant we got our name changes. :3

If someone was doing anything like that, they could achieve the same effect by simply making a new character, which is obviously something that's already possible. It's not a legitimate concern.

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Originally Posted by Rhianu

If someone was doing anything like that, they could achieve the same effect by simply making a new character, which is obviously something that's already possible. It's not a legitimate concern.

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*shrugs* It's not a concern of mine, but on other threads it seemed to be a concern of many. I just worried it might be something that would prevent SE from allowing us a name change, so I started brainstorming.

If you don't like the idea I can respect that. ^^

I really, really hope so as well.

Ya its the same for me too, Im really tired of my name and plan on changing to a male miqote later and my current name doesnt really fit well with that XD I hope they do make it where you are able to change your name too.

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How could anyone possibly take advantage of name changing in a negative way? That makes no sense.

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Say you take a linkshell/open company/guild/whatever's bank/money/etc and run. Generally, everyone in the group you were formerly a part of will hate you and stalk you and you won't be able to do anything with them any more.

Change your race and name and BAM! it's like you're a different person. In short, you can abuse name/race changes to ditch a bad reputation.

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Originally Posted by Alhanelem

Say you take a linkshell/open company/guild/whatever's bank/money/etc and run. Generally, everyone in the group you were formerly a part of will hate you and stalk you and you won't be able to do anything with them any more.

Change your race and name and BAM! it's like you're a different person. In short, you can abuse name/race changes to ditch a bad reputation.

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They should have a "buffer period" where it displays their new name, but via a /check, it shows their old name under parenthesis.

Usually the only linkshells with banks are the ones who are super organized, so if someone grabs the money and bounces, they'll know who has it all, especially since its usually only a few people who have the "bank" in their retainer.

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Originally Posted by Rhianu

Also, I want to get rid of my character's surname. Surnames make the character name too long. One name only, please!

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Either Surnames should become a staple amongst MMORPGs or at least optional, but they should not be abolished at all.

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How could anyone possibly take advantage of name changing in a negative way? That makes no sense.

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That's like asking how anyone could possibly take advantage of the enemy they see barely standing on the middle of a platform...

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They should have a "buffer period" where it displays their new name, but via a /check, it shows their old name under parenthesis.

Usually the only linkshells with banks are the ones who are super organized, so if someone grabs the money and bounces, they'll know who has it all, especially since its usually only a few people who have the "bank" in their retainer.

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I think the old name should remain on-screen, near the new name because not everyone will think to check someone who appears to be a random stranger. It should be out in the open for a while. After a set period of time, old name goes poof~ (Probably better that's it's sort of a longer period of time.. If it were only 2 weeks the person could just not log on for 2 weeks, but the old name remaining for something like 1-2 months seems safer. Who's gonna ditch their char for 2 months? o.o)

Anyways.. just about any situation can be exploited or taken advantage of in a negative way. It doesn't mean things shouldn't be allowed though, if we can find a good way to try to prevent unwanted situations from happening.

Edit: Actually... could make it on a timer that counts down only while you're in-game.. (And then it wouldn't have to be so long - say... 5 days worth of game play - 120 hours), and people would be forced to log in and play for it to eventually go away. Everyone would get to see who they were. No hiding offline till it goes away. :x

Personally I don't see SE offering a name change, the only reason they're allowing a race change is due to the new graphics engine and the game looking different, a name does not suffer from this.

Also you will have people trying to take others names

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Also, I want to get rid of my character's surname. Surnames make the character name too long. One name only, please!

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On their concept art screenshot 2 of the players only had a firstname and not a surename, so they may be allowing first names only.

I wonder, if they offered a name change, couldn't they just have it so your new name appears in place of the old one on linkshell and social lists? Unless half the people in your linkshell go for a name change, and there are still no decent linkshell controls, with a little collaboration it wouldn't be too hard to identify a troublemaker even if they had changed their name.

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Originally Posted by Alhanelem

Say you take a linkshell/open company/guild/whatever's bank/money/etc and run. Generally, everyone in the group you were formerly a part of will hate you and stalk you and you won't be able to do anything with them any more.

Change your race and name and BAM! it's like you're a different person. In short, you can abuse name/race changes to ditch a bad reputation.

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If someone steals a bunch of money from their guildmates, what they do is go out and join a different guild/linkshell where they aren't known (which would be essentially every other guild/linkshell in the game). They don't get a namechange and rejoin the same guild.

If someone happens to screw over a particular guild/linkshell, generally no one outside of the guild/linkshell cares. The situation you've described is not a realistic scenario.

u will probably change your name, i myself am a miqote but wants to be male miqote so they will probably add a name change and maybe the surname will remain the same, so for those with some guild issues can figure out with his surname who that person is. but guild issues, come on. :P

Question. While I understand XI had a strict thing with namechanges and the general consensus was that for the reasons of people cheating others and reputation you're not allowed to change name unless you create a mule with the name you currently have on another server / your name is already taken on another server, you hop server (for a price), you change your name upon arrival at the other server because it's taken, you wait 90 days to come back, you hop back to your original server for a price...) surely for the fact this is a one-time-only thing, the same won't apply? I mean, it's not like we're going to be able to change genders/races whenever the hell we feel like it; it's just this once.

Community REP Response Please !

Can any kind community Rep please get a response
for the main topic in here from the devs please?

Dont really wanna bump a topic, or make a
new one just to get some response.

Cuz im planning on going new Race when 2.0 pops & i prolly
wouldnt feel very "Funky" if i end up as a lizard race...
cuz then i would be "Hizz" instead.

Yes please! I too would like to have the option to update my name in 2.0. I miss my original MMO name name

Dawn Miqote!

Edit: oh gawds I fail at lighting matches, how can I bring light anywhere?

I believe that name changes are going to happen because the devs said that there is an issue with current lengthy surnames (although, I don't recall where I read this).

So yeah, I'd say there's a 95% chance we will get to rename and we will likely have a smaller char limit for surnames.