It's been half a year, Name Change plz

[Merlinian]

Don't allow name changes. I've got a blacklist of several individuals - fake crafters who cons people of their money, ragequit bad players, and general aholes. It would be a disaster if they all changed their names.

I hope they can make it that they stay on the blacklist, now with their new name.

[Rekujen]

They noted this might be a possibility soon in my Fantasia thread

[Arasiel]

They noted this might be a possibility soon in my Fantasia thread

"might" be possible. There is no might about it, make it happen. We are willing/paying costumers.. add the feature already.

lesser games with a lot less funding have this feature by 6 months.

[cearka]

Don't allow name changes. I've got a blacklist of several individuals - fake crafters who cons people of their money, ragequit bad players, and general aholes. It would be a disaster if they all changed their names.

Usually there's a player ID tagged with your character as well, so changning your name wouldn't affect this. after you changed yoru name, you'd show up on blist/flist/ls/fclist/etc as the new name.

[Yamimarik]

Don't allow name changes. I've got a blacklist of several individuals - fake crafters who cons people of their money, ragequit bad players, and general aholes. It would be a disaster if they all changed their names.

The team is still discussing the details around this, but in the future we definitely want to offer more phials of Fantasia as well as something that allows players to change their name.

They already said they will offer some kind of service for name changes, of course when that will be who knows...

[Kimikryo]

Oh you know what is the scariest part of name changing, you have 3 guesses

There are those friendly Anime Nerds that have a new Nr1 Name and want it. Because Sugoi Narrotoh isnt awesome enough. I vote. Let them. Make them pay 25 bucks.
There are those that when initially making a name made a mistake of some kind, be it using "wrong" naming conventions or whatever. I vote Let them. Make them pay 25 bucks.
There are those that grieved a lot of people, are known serverwide, and nobody likes them. They want to wash their name clear. I vote. Let them. Make them pay 2500 bucks. (I know that will be hard to figure out, but people like this just are annoying)

[Macka]

I put alot of thought into my character look and name if we all did this we wouldn't need a name change, I still have my Fantasia.

[Coris]

Usually there's a player ID tagged with your character as well, so changning your name wouldn't affect this. after you changed yoru name, you'd show up on blist/flist/ls/fclist/etc as the new name.

Can confirm this.
A few weeks ago I had a deleted character on my friendlist and a few days later it was gone but an unknown name was there instead. Turned out that it was the same player/character.

[Cons]

You shouldn't have listened to that guy, going forward I bet you'll used better ......... judgement.

So cold, cold as a judge-sicle

[Tsuga]

snip.

Well aren't you just perfect.

Not that I should have to justify this to anyone - it's an effing game that I play for fun, I should be able to re-customize my character as much as I like, if it requires extra man-hours on SE's end I'm happy to pay for such a service- but personally I'd like to swap my main and my alt's appearance/names. I find I'm happier playing on my alt than I am on my main, and would prefer to have her appearance and name. Sadly the way things are I'd be stuck with my old name, and locked out of all of my gender specific gear if I were to make the switch.

I really do wish that SE would give this issue a bit more priority. Name change and item swap have all ready been shown as being possible on SE's end, I really don't understand what the hold-up is.

Fantasia is almost useless for those of us who want to swap character gender.