Name Change

anyone know if we can change the char name when 2.0 come's out?

Name change will be a wise thing to do because people will be changing gender.

why would you change your name?

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Originally Posted by rina_inverse

why would you change your name?

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For example, who wants to name a male char Rina?

I do
so, why would you change your name?

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Originally Posted by rina_inverse

I do
so, why would you change your name?

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Cause not everyone is you. :)

Serious question, why would you change your name?
Your name is your identity pre-2.0, why would you change it?
Why not create a totally new character if you like a new name

Even Yoshi-P questioned this in one of his letter

Would be nice if we can change our name in 2.0. I'm gonna roll a kitty cat in 2.0 I just can't decide if it's gonna be a boy or girl but if it's a girl I would change it to Avon Kra because I have always looked at my name as a boy's.

Because the name Rukira for a manthra is silly. Brittany seems much more fitting.

Changing name is so complex though cause then you pretty much wipe your identity in a sense. Even after the name change you then have to spend countless times explaining to others, ya I use to be Rina the Elezen but now I"m Rhino the Male Miquote. <_< Maybe they could give unique titles to people that change their names so others can ease into the process like "The Eelzen Formerly known as Rina" and such lol

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Originally Posted by Airget

Changing name is so complex though cause then you pretty much wipe your identity in a sense. Even after the name change you then have to spend countless times explaining to others, ya I use to be Rina the Elezen but now I"m Rhino the Male Miquote. <_< Maybe they could give unique titles to people that change their names so others can ease into the process like "The Eelzen Formerly known as Rina" and such lol

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I can understand where your coming from and you bring up a good point but I'll only explain to my ls and friends that this is my new name and I don't think it'd take too long to get accustomed to the new name and any players I don't know I just wouldn't bother telling them what my name used to be because regardless what my name was before they didn't know me anyway ^^;

again, why you changing your name?

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Originally Posted by rina_inverse

again, why you changing your name?

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You keep asking, and being answered D:

It's like those who rolled F.Miq because they wanted to be a cat-person but since there was no male option chose a feminine name.

Now at 2.0, we'll be able to re-choose our race/appearance so wouldn't it be silly if you saw a really strong looking M.Miq called "Kittyfluffy Starshimmer" or whatever.

You don't have to want to change your name, that's totally cool but there's good reason for others wanting to do it.

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Originally Posted by rina_inverse

again, why you changing your name?

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bit weird question, if we want to use another gender in 2.0 or another "species" we might think the name we used for old character is not fitting the new one... not sure what is hard to understand...

I am against name changes cause it lets those with bad reputations and such to continue to be bad people.

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Originally Posted by AmandaHuggenkiss

I am against name changes cause it lets those with bad reputations and such to continue to be bad people.

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They're going to be bad people regardless of what name they have :(, them keeping the same name won't change that ><, that being said I do understand where you're coming from, it'll just take a bit to figure out who they are again :p

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Originally Posted by rina_inverse

why would you change your name?

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Why do you think everyone wants to keep their character's name if they're changing gender/race or if the look they want is not fitting of their character's name? Actually, why are you against giving people more features?

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Originally Posted by rina_inverse

again, why you changing your name?

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y u trollin

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Originally Posted by rina_inverse

again, why you changing your name?

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Some people that are heavy into the game's lore might take advantage of the name change. Ferne released an explanation awhile back how Lalafell names work. Call me crazy but some people just might change their race to Lalafell and just might wanna change their name to feel more tied to their race, the RP community comes to mind when I think of this.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...176#post726176

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Originally Posted by rina_inverse

again, why you changing your name?

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For roleplay

example: the name Barue Marue is 1A ok for a Lalafell, but not for a female Highlander.

I change my female Miqo'te to a male Miqo'te and I hope I can change my first name a bit. Maybe to "Soak Felis"

i just like to change bismarck to heaven as my last name ^^ i got 2 more char's both with heaven as last name ^^

I want to name change because my initial server doesnt let me to name my char as Justin Bieber bc it was taken.

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Originally Posted by rina_inverse

I do
so, why would you change your name?

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Just shut up, no one likes you.

I want to change my name. Too many Lina's in game.

I may or may not want to change to male Miqo'te once 2.0 (or whenever male miqo'tes come out) comes around. That being said, I chose the name I have specifically to suit the race and gender of a male elezen. It wouldn't (by any means) be a terrible name for a male miqo'te, but it would not have been the name I chose if I had the option of starting as a male miqo'te in the first place.

....Male Miqo'te! D=<

they should let us essentially recreate our character, birthday starting area and everything but let us keep what we have done right now

Hoping we get an answer to this soon! If I can't change my name I guess I will just start over and use this as my mule/secondary character ._.

Maybe op doesn't have any friends, so a name change wouldn't affect his social events, because no one would miss him?

Edit: Did not see above posters name. That is a terrible name.

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Originally Posted by Eliseus

they should let us essentially recreate our character, birthday starting area and everything but let us keep what we have done right now

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that the point XD in 2.0 you keep everything you just have to rebuild your char because the new engine have diff lighting and shadowing so you may not like how your char look like. So this give you a chance to change your char or change race/sex

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Originally Posted by Zenaku

that the point XD in 2.0 you keep everything you just have to rebuild your char because the new engine have diff lighting and shadowing so you may not like how your char look like. So this give you a chance to change your char or change race/sex

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Did you not read all my post? lol. I'm talking about more then just facial etc...

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Originally Posted by Eliseus

Did you not read all my post? lol. I'm talking about more then just facial etc...

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Hmm ya i read it wrong sorry, Hmm i think it's a 100% redo but i guess we see the more we come close to 2.0.

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Originally Posted by rina_inverse

Serious question, why would you change your name?
Your name is your identity pre-2.0, why would you change it?
Why not create a totally new character if you like a new name

Even Yoshi-P questioned this in one of his letter

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ingame harassment thats not being done anything about?

Let me conjure some examples

Player A: "OMG, those peoples are annoying! How dare they use the same name like me, Lina. I'm not hip anymore!"
Player B: "OMG, that male miqote looks cute. ME WANNA!!!'"
Player C: "Crap. This is bad. I accidentally kill my friend. I need to lay down. Oh, what to do, what to do. I know! I'll change my appearance and name. Now no one will catch me!"

All: "But I don't want to replay it all again!!!"

Yea, I guess thats called selfish


ps: I'm not against change. I'm against ridicoulous idea that will/potentially bring imbalance to either game mechanics, game experience and game lore. For those who said that I'm not role play enough, actually I role play enough. And right now, I'm role play as some adventurer in medievel setting, and to no friggin way access to some gender or even race change. Sure, I could dye my hair blond or black, but that? Totally not gonna happen in medieval setting

Maybe they will open up a roleplay server with no options to change? But Ridill deserves a name change damnitaru!!
Roleplay setting: The syndicate of Ul'dah allows you a one time name change with a high price.

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Originally Posted by rina_inverse

ps: I'm not against change. I'm against ridicoulous idea that will/potentially bring imbalance to either game mechanics, game experience and game lore. For those who said that I'm not role play enough, actually I role play enough. And right now, I'm role play as some adventurer in medievel setting, and to no friggin way access to some gender or even race change. Sure, I could dye my hair blond or black, but that? Totally not gonna happen in medieval setting

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Think there's some missing logic here.

Human beings found out about... (how to say this in a proper manner?)
"How to re-populate themselves?" before they invented fire or the Wheel.
All pre medieval settings.

Name change isnt something brand new and been around for ages past, this include aliases etc.
Human beings change their last name in marrige too you know.

I doubt name change will bring much inbalance to game mechanics as you suggest.
Bad players, acting like morons, harassing others brings unbalance to online gaming experience.
nuff said.

- No0my

The more options the better in the modern age of MMOs.

Rina your argument would be more valid if the case was you could change your name on a whim but seeing as people are asking for a one time name change the players that are mean and nasty wont be able to stay in hiding for long. So what your saying is no one can RP as someone that lost their name and memory so they adopt a new name? I guess back in the dark ages or any period of time for that matter there was absolutely no way that a traveler far from home could loose their memory and since no one knows them they take on a new name?

Let me conjure another example

You are a famous adventurer. Bards sing songs of your heroic deed. Statues are erect in Cities, Hamlets, all corner of the world to respect you. You are XXX, adventurer extraordinary!

But then you got bored with your name, which is, like I said before, what you are pre-2.0, your keepsake, your Legacy! Could you imagine that all the bards have to rename yourself in their songs, crafter scratch their head thinking so hard how to change the statues that they made into a new you (physic and identity) without have to start from scratch?

Yes, bard and crafter can be selfish
so what?
everyone is!


ps: that's just some lazy analogy for the all pain that DEV/DB team have to endure to re-name player ID into their database. Yes, I'm lazy like that

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Originally Posted by rina_inverse

Let me conjure some examples

Player A: "OMG, those peoples are annoying! How dare they use the same name like me, Lina. I'm not hip anymore!"
Player B: "OMG, that male miqote looks cute. ME WANNA!!!'"
Player C: "Crap. This is bad. I accidentally kill my friend. I need to lay down. Oh, what to do, what to do. I know! I'll change my appearance and name. Now no one will catch me!"

All: "But I don't want to replay it all again!!!"

Yea, I guess thats called selfish


ps: I'm not against change. I'm against ridicoulous idea that will/potentially bring imbalance to either game mechanics, game experience and game lore. For those who said that I'm not role play enough, actually I role play enough. And right now, I'm role play as some adventurer in medievel setting, and to no friggin way access to some gender or even race change. Sure, I could dye my hair blond or black, but that? Totally not gonna happen in medieval setting

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I don't even get the point you are trying to make.

Square Enix is adding missing genders that I would have like to play as. They want us to have the opportunity to change since 2.0 is a DIFFERENT game with DIFFERENT graphics so we pretty much HAVE to remake our characters.

As far as name games, it makes sense if you are change gender. Some would just rather a name change like me because I have a name that I would have rather gone by.

It makes sense to change your name if you planned on changing your gender. I mean it won't look right if you were a female cat name Tiffany and switched over to a male cat and your name is still Tiffany. That's just weird. But IF ONLY the people who changes their characters gender are the only ones allowed to change their name, that isn't really quite fair to the other players that didn't want to change genders, now is it?

you would think they will give us a full character change when 2.0 gos live. i doubt they'll leave out the name change since we have to remake our characters because the game it self is new.

only thing were keeping is a database of what we have like items, levels, etc.