tried to name my character shinobu oshino but was denied

that name does not exists on my world but square still wont let me change weird

I have had a character on another server from my main's and tried to make a new character on Balmung with the same name. The name was not in use on Balmung, but it still would not let me use it.

I know the feels.

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Originally Posted by KoroushSensei

that name does not exists on my world but square still wont let me change weird

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Because it goes against the EULA:

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3.5 Naming Right. You may not use any name or other intellectual property belonging to Square Enix or any other third party in your use of the Game (for example, naming a character after a celebrity, company, product, or superhero).

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They're pretty lax about if you created a character before they blocked the name, but they seem to be slowly adding filters to block copyright character names.

My character is named after my favorite singer. I guess I got lucky.

Good, because I'm tired of people being uncreative.

Sometimes names don't show up if you search lodestone, but they'll still be taken. One of my alts has a name that said it was taken on Hyperion but no lodestone character could be found here, yet I was still able to use that name on Excalibur. Maybe if the character is created but they just exited the client because they didn't want to wait for the previously unskippable opening cutscene? Or maybe the name was used in 1.x and never logged in since the new lodestone was created. I have no idea.

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Good, because I'm tired of people being uncreative.

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I don't regret using an "uncreative" name because I've made friends with similar interests in the Tales series that I may have never talked to otherwise.

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Originally Posted by Aethaeryn

I don't regret using an "uncreative" name because I've made friends with similar interests in the Tales series that I may have never talked to otherwise.

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I suppose...
I don't know, still think it's weird for an RPG where the point is to create your own character.

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I suppose...
I don't know, still think it's weird for an RPG where the point is to create your own character.

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Could be worse. Could have been named Cloud, Sephiroth or IstabUlolQT. Names like always kill a part of my soul every single time.

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Originally Posted by Noshpan

Could be worse. Could have been named Cloud, Sephiroth or IstabUlolQT. Names like always kill a part of my soul every single time.

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Ugh true... at least with this system you have to have a first and last name....

Has anyone gone for Strife Cloud?

I named my character Moe Lester in 1.0 and got a warning with a forced name change....

I love Hayley Westenra, best voice on the planet imo.

Dam I have had Usako Tsukino as my name since I started playing A Realm Reborn. I hope they don't make me change it all of a sudden...

I just mixed 2 names, so far i've been fine! Unless they force me to name change my last name.

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Originally Posted by Archvile78

I just mixed 2 names, so far i've been fine! Unless they force me to name change my last name.

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They shouldn't, lest all the Highwinds, Strives, Leonhearts, etc have to change theirs, too.

...it's not like I took a day off work when the game was released to reserve the name Reimu Hakurei.

My characters names come from Moon Divers which is a title from SE... Only 2 first names though. Maybe its only complete names?

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I named my character Moe Lester in 1.0 and got a warning with a forced name change....

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Good. Also +1 for fighting off unoriginal names.

XXGandalfXXX XXGreycloakXX

But in all seriousness. Its extremely disrespectful to a character you didn't create to use the name of.

Xxnarutoxuzamakixx Xxpurexninjaxx


My personal favorites are the people who want the world to know that they smoke weed so they always have to have purple kush and good green in their names.

I tried to make a character named "Giant Dad" however, the server said it could not handle the load capacity for such a powerful character.

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Originally Posted by Nektulos-Tuor

But in all seriousness. Its extremely disrespectful to a character you didn't create to use the name of.

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Why? I see it as more of the opposite - it means people are such big fans of your work that they want to play as one of your characters.
So for fictional characters' names, it's more of an apprechiation.

For real people's names though..hm. I think that might count as impersonation and could be bad. Everyone knows no Naruto, Cloud or Harry Potter really exists, but with real people it's different.

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Originally Posted by Atoli

Why? I see it as more of the opposite - it means people are such big fans of your work that they want to play as one of your characters.
So for fictional characters' names, it's more of an apprechiation.

For real people's names though..hm. I think that might count as impersonation and could be bad. Everyone knows no Naruto, Cloud or Harry Potter really exists, but with real people it's different.

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Not really. Its extremely disrespectful. You created a character and a "fan" should respect that. Anything you or I make is my own creation, my story. Anyone else playing it is just rude honestly. The creator can say who can play him well, but you will never play him as well as he envisioned.

If you truley liked the character. You would know that you can never copy or mimic it. If you like the character you should make a new character based on that character.

This is the big difference between someone who truley respects a character and just a fanboy. A fanboy wants to change the character and story to suit his needs, however someone who really likes the character envies him and stays away from ever using his or her name.

Reminds me of the 1000s of Inuyashas that popped up in RP when it was popular, he is cool yeah but don't you think seeing him everywhere really respects the character? Seeing him being "underplayed" by so many people is respectful?

No, its really not.

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Originally Posted by Nektulos-Tuor

Not really. Its extremely disrespectful. You created a character and a "fan" should respect that. Anything you or I make is my own creation, my story. Anyone else playing it is just rude honestly. The creator can say who can play him well, but you will never play him as well as he envisioned.

If you truley liked the character. You would know that you can never copy or mimic it. If you like the character you should make a new character based on that character.

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That's, like, your opinion, mate.

I guarantee you I respect Miss Reimu a lot, I have a replica of her shrine in my bedroom and I worship her used garments everyday.

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That's, like, your opinion, mate.

I guarantee you I respect Miss Reimu a lot, I have a replica of her shrine in my bedroom and I worship her used garments everyday.

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Ok, but you can never play a character even close to what he or she the creator imagined. So in my eyes your actually disrespecting her. When you think about it more you will understand it. Your pretty much just a copy-cat. =3

I mean. Sorry, but I hate making things sound watered down and silly. I just tell people how it is, and some times the truth hurts.

I also would report you if I ever saw you in game. ;)

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Not really. Its extremely disrespectful.
No, its really not.

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I don't know where you're deriving this mentality from but most people are flattered that their creations resonates so well with people that they want to mimick them. Otherwise cosplay would be a giant lawsuit.

But instead they appreciate and it's free advertisement.

I tried female alt Carmen Sandiego and it works lol.

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I don't know where you're deriving this mentality from but most people are flattered that their creations resonates so well with people that they want to mimick them. Otherwise cosplay would be a giant lawsuit.

But instead they appreciate and it's free advertisement.

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Cosplay isn't being the character, when you cosplay your not going around telling people your XXX. You say your cosplaying as XXX.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jLaydXMKi1...00/wYn7JHh.jpg

You can really respect the character, but do you think the Artist will like it if you show up looking like this? You need to learn that some times cosplaying can also have a negative effect, however your just cosplaying. Your not saying: "I am XXX! This is how it should be!" Since its well, real life. There is no way you can ever truley be that character in real life.

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Ok, but you can never play a character even close to what he or she the creator imagined. So in my eyes your actually disrespecting her. When you think about it more you will understand it. Your pretty much just a copy-cat. =3

I mean. Sorry, but I hate making things sound watered down and silly. I just tell people how it is, and some times the truth hurts.

I also would report you if I ever saw you in game. ;)

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Cosplay. Fan-fiction. Roleplay. Fanon.

Thoughts?

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Originally Posted by Nektulos-Tuor

Ok, but you can never play a character even close to what he or she the creator imagined. So in my eyes your actually disrespecting her. When you think about it more you will understand it. Your pretty much just a copy-cat. =3

I mean. Sorry, but I hate making things sound watered down and silly. I just tell people how it is, and some times the truth hurts.

I also would report you if I ever saw you in game. ;)

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Your cowardly mind tricks will not shake my faith, you demon.

Begone! Gensokyo will suffer you no longer!

Make sure to make a donation to the shrine before leaving though, pretty please?

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Originally Posted by AstralKaos

Cosplay. Fan-fiction. Roleplay. Fanon.

Thoughts?

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Cosplay is just cosplaying as XXX.

Fan-Fiction is a fictional story based on XXX, and disrespectful unless the author approves of it, or asks someone to write for it or gives licenses.

Role-play is playing a role with a character you created based on a story someone else made. However, unless the story maker gives you a "role" then you should make your own character within the story. Most Role plays and theators are people being given a role, like shakespear. He intended for the story to be told that way in theators. Most roleplayers actually participate in cooporative story telling, or playing a role which they created themselves and players who roleplay as famous characters or characters other people made are ignored and or not taken seriously.

Fanon, see bronies. Some times it can have negative and positive feedbacks.

I'm sick and going to a funeral now, see ya all later.

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Your cowardly mind tricks will not shake my faith, you demon.

Begone! Gensokyo will suffer you no longer!

Make sure to make a donation to the shrine before leaving though, pretty please?

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Your ... feeble skills are no match for the power of the Darkside of the Farce...

So according to you, it's disrespectful to name my cat after a cartoon character? Because my cat isn't actually that character, and that character isn't a cat? Same goes for a kid, people name their kids after tv shows or movies all the time. Is that disrespectful? (I wouldn't personally name my kid after a cartoon.)

I'd say it's more admiration. I named my ninjas first name after a woman in a book that was a badass, strong, admirable assassin. Or sometimes I'll use a character name because I think it's pretty. Or because it matches what I want to do with my character (my bard/machinists last name is Deschain after Roland Deschain from the dark tower series by Stephen king. He's a gunslinger and I wanted to feel like I'm from his line).

I don't see how any of this is disrespectful.

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Do you know what doujinshi's are? They are comics based on existing franchises that aren't made by the creator and are often not even close to source material. And they still allow those to exist. Nobody had hounded down fanfiction websites yet. Because apparently only you care. You just can't make profit using their IP's

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Originally Posted by Critical-Limit

Do you know what doujinshi's are? They are comics based on existing franchises that aren't made by the creator and are often not even close to source material. And they still allow those to exist. Nobody had hounded down fanfiction websites yet. Because apparently only you care. You just can't make profit using their IP's

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To be fair, I do know of one author that has gone through means to stop people from writing fan fiction, and that's Anne Rice..I don't recall exactly what she's done to put a stop to it besides nicely ask her fans to stop and state that she's very against it. I'm sure there are others, but I feel video game characters are different than fanfiction, although I'm not opposed to fanfiction myself.

Wow, I don't think I've EVER seen anyone so opposed to fanworks, and this is the internet, so I was pretty sure I've seen everything already... :rolleyes:

Look, I'm as annoyed as anyone on seeing the 500th Rinoa and Cloud pop up on my server, but I'll also defend them to the death for their roleplaying as a character they love, or cosplaying as that character or writing stories about them or drawing fanart/doujins about them. If you consider it disrespectful, fine, do so. Except for a small handful of people, close to all artists are flattered that others get so absorbed in their works.

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To be fair, I do know of one author that has gone through means to stop people from writing fan fiction, and that's Anne Rice..I don't recall exactly what she's done to put a stop to it besides nicely ask her fans to stop and state that she's very against it. I'm sure there are others, but I feel video game characters are different than fanfiction, although I'm not opposed to fanfiction myself.

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I'm sure there are a few exceptions to the rule. Nintendo often attacks fan stuff too. Not everyone is the same the majority don't feel it's "disrespectful" if we made a list of creators and divided them by who finds it honorable or disrespectful. More people find it a honor that people like their creations so much

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I'm sure there are a few exceptions to the rule. Nintendo often attacks fan stuff too. Not everyone is the same the majority don't feel it's "disrespectful" if we made a list of creators and divided them by who finds it honorable or disrespectful. More people find it a honor that people like their creations so much

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Websites to upload fanworks to often have lists of artists who do not want fanworks to be created about their work(s).
It's especially funny if someone can be found on the list who got rich by writing a fanfiction herself..:rolleyes:

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Fan-Fiction is a fictional story based on XXX, and disrespectful unless the author approves of it, or asks someone to write for it or gives licenses.

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First of all, I have to say it feels a little bit weird to find something I actually agree with you on, Nektulos ^^; A lot of what I've seen you post has to me felt quite a bit over-the-top, but... I agree with you when it comes to using canon character names for what's essentially RP (even if you're not RP-ing in FFXIV). On RP forums (where the entire forum is a single RP for one fandom), I'm equally uncomfortable with having players control canon characters, and prefer them (if they are necessary) to be NPCs, controlled by the admin/mod staff.

When it comes to fan-fiction, there is a list (it's been a while since I wrote any fanfiction, so I've lost track of where it is, but most fanfiction archives tend to either link to it or keep a copy of it on their own servers) of which western-based authors allow, grudgingly accept and refuse fanworks of their property. It's up to the fans to respect the author's wish in the matter, and stop writing stuff. (Or at least keep it private and offline, where only you can access it.)

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Do you know what doujinshi's are? They are comics based on existing franchises that aren't made by the creator and are often not even close to source material. And they still allow those to exist. Nobody had hounded down fanfiction websites yet. Because apparently only you care. You just can't make profit using their IP's

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Yes, doujinshis exist, and are (AFAIK) accepted by mangaka. But I'm fairly certain that if a specific mangaka or manga publisher said "No, stop making doujinshi of this particular manga/anime", the fans would be expected to respect that statement. Similar to how Yoshi-P and the other devs say, "Yes, we're aware of this problem, please do not exploit it," and expect us to respect that wish. And while that might be a futile expectation when it's an international game, it's probably not as futile when the people you're addressing are Japanese (which the majority of doujinshika are, AFAIK).

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To be fair, I do know of one author that has gone through means to stop people from writing fan fiction, and that's Anne Rice..

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*cough* Yes, Anne Rice is very firm with her, "No, do not create fan-based works," stand. She is, however, not the "worst" one, in my opinion. That would be Anne McCaffrey. She's also made a very firm, "No fan works!" statement, but... there was an artist who'd made... I think it was an oil painting, mostly landscape, but featuring a dragon and dragon-rider. Basically professional-quality fan-art based on the Dragonriders of Pern. McCaffrey disapproved, and took legal action, with the end result that the artist got a court order (I think it's called) forcing them to destroy the painting, and delete all digital representations of it they had control over.
And while I respect that McCaffrey does own her works, and agree that the artist should have respected that as well, the thought of destroying something that had taken days or more to create... Ouch is just the first word that comes to mind. The second being a "Nooooooo!" to rival Luke Skywalker's.

http://i.imgur.com/rq9kxvv.jpg?1

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Originally Posted by Nektulos-Tuor

XXGandalfXXX XXGreycloakXX

But in all seriousness. Its extremely disrespectful to a character you didn't create to use the name of.

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It's extremely disrespectfull to women to have "professional princess saver" in your sig. Modern day feminists and social justice warriors would gang up on you and get you fired from your job for promoting inequality!