Would I have to change my name?

If there is a server merger will SE force me to change my name If someone from other Server has it too?

I don't see any other way for them to handle it, so yes, more than likely, you will have to change if you are moving from one server to another.

I don't have any solid details, but for server merges in FFXI you were force to change your name if it already exists. That being said since there is also last name in this game it should be a slim chance for your name to be taken, unless it's something really generic I guess.

I was going to say that, but I did a lodestone search for "Kanade Tachibana" and it actually turned up a surprising number of hits, despite me not knowing where that name comes from.

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Originally Posted by Raldo

I was going to say that, but I did a lodestone search for "Kanade Tachibana" and it actually turned up a surprising number of hits, despite me not knowing where that name comes from.

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Yea I did the search as well which is why I brought it up. However when looking at their character profiles they all appear inactive. I don't know if SE will consider this when merging.

There should be some kind of fair way of deciding who had to change.
Like if you had your name first you should be able to keep it.

You should change it to Christopher Walken. Nobody dislikes that guy~!

So basically it'll be the 1.0 servers and the 2.0 servers and no mixing.
Maybe that's a good thing, but i think it's a terrible idea.

Why can't someone have all the answers :(

In those cases where people choose thier names in reference to pop culture icons and or characters, SE hopefully will give preference to active subscribers before inactive accounts.

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Originally Posted by Raldo

I was going to say that, but I did a lodestone search for "Kanade Tachibana" and it actually turned up a surprising number of hits, despite me not knowing where that name comes from.

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Seems like it's a character from an anime, no surprise people will have it.
Unfortunately when it comes to server merge I don't think there's really any 'fair' way to solve this beside having to rename. At least if you have to and being able to redo your character with 2.0 it's like a free ride to re-create your character if you want to :>

Most likely I dont know anyway the servers would work with 2 people of the same name. They will most likely make u change your name. Although if you ever played DCUO when they made a servermerger they let you change your name for free. But if you didnt want to change your name than they let you keep your name but abbreviated what server your merged from and put it in your name

So if they did it like that your name would look like this if you didnt wanna change it
Kanade Tachibana [Fab]

Which if your name actually ended up looking like that i would keep cause than you could say like, "Yeah im one of the Kanade Tachibana's but im the Fabulous one." XD

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Originally Posted by Norack

Most likely I dont know anyway the servers would work with 2 people of the same name. They will most likely make u change your name. Although if you ever played DCUO when they made a servermerger they let you change your name for free. But if you didnt want to change your name than they let you keep your name but abbreviated what server your merged from and put it in your name

So if they did it like that your name would look like this if you didnt wanna change it
Kanade Tachibana [Fab]

Which if your name actually ended up looking like that i would keep cause than you could say like, "Yeah im one of the Kanade Tachibana's but im the Fabulous one." XD

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That is pretty funny but I rather not have that.

Surname most likely, yeah.

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Originally Posted by Adlitim

Yea I did the search as well which is why I brought it up. However when looking at their character profiles they all appear inactive. I don't know if SE will consider this when merging.

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Yeah, activity should be more important unless both are active, in which case the home server player should always get the priority.

I actually would not mind having to re-name my character if I also had the chance to change the race/appearance as well.

Im hopeing in 2.0 they will let us change names! i wanna be the male cat, but dont want a female name tied with it!

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Originally Posted by Vermilion

I actually would not mind having to re-name my character if I also had the chance to change the race/appearance as well.

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We will have to be allowed name changes when 2.0 comes out since we'll be able to change race/gender stuff too.

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Originally Posted by Dragon

We will have to be allowed name changes when 2.0 comes out since we'll be able to change race/gender stuff too.

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Yeah, I figured they might as well do the same thing for this server merge as well. Name/race/appearance change for merge, and then once more for Ver. 2.0.

Yes please I want to change my first name at least >.<

I know this has been said already to a point.
In FFXI during merges the people being merged from a dead world to a live world would have to change their names if said name was already taken on said server.
However! if said name was taken by an inactive character who was no longer being paid for, the merger character got to keep his name, and when the inactive character was reactivated,the former inactive would have to change their name.

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Originally Posted by Koga_Edge

I know this has been said already to a point.
In FFXI during merges the people being merged from a dead world to a live world would have to change their names if said name was already taken on said server.
However! if said name was taken by an inactive character who was no longer being paid for, the merger character got to keep his name, and when the inactive character was reactivated,the former inactive would have to change their name.

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This sounds like something I wanted to hear! When looking over the other Kanade Tachibana none of them were above level 10 so i doubt any of them are active. Hopefully they do it same way here.