Removal of Surnames

[BelgianRofl]

No offense, but less than 1% of the population has an interesting, clever, or powerful sounding name. This is virtually unattainable when requiring surnames.

I believe the only reason for surnames was because of the drama that occurs 8 years down the road when you have to merge servers...

Surnames should not exist in FFXIV. Not only do most people's names suck, but it makes the game look like a text-adventure in crowded zones.

I won't even bring up the fact that trying to send a /tell to Whargershire Alizeilaronetsunakashima as he runs across the screen is often a disaster.

If you are in defense of surnames, please know that your name sucks and is not memorable to anyone other than yourself (unless you're Belgian, Rofl, that is...)

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EDIT: The solution we have all agreed upon is to make surnames optional. Those people who don't care about having a name that sucks can keep their surnames. Those of us who want to be seen with only a nickname will be satisfied as well. Yoshi-P! Fix this right away!

[Blitz0309]

Yeah, i thought they were sort of silly.

It anything it just makes /telling a hell of a lot more tedious.

[Cairdeas]

I dunno most of my names are pretty bad ass


Ruari Cairdeas : Which translates to Red Headed King of Friendship. :P
I need to play Ruari more though, I've kinda left her sit idle lately.

[LuciBlack]

/thumbsup for surnames

[Argh]

surnames are stupid.

[Issachar]

Surnames are alright. You really can't remove a feature because people picked names that didn't exactly fit in with the game.

If you are in defense of surnames, please know that your name sucks and is not memorable to anyone other than yourself (unless you're Belgian, Rofl, that is...)

Oh nevermind, it's just a bored kid trying to troll.

[MagicofGaia]

No offense, but less than 1% of the population has an interesting, clever, or powerful sounding name. This is virtually unattainable when requiring surnames.

I believe the only reason for surnames was because of the drama that occurs 8 years down the road when you have to merge servers...

Surnames should not exist in FFXIV. Not only do most people's names suck, but it makes the game look like a text-adventure in crowded zones.

I won't even bring up the fact that trying to send a /tell to Whargershire Alizeilaronetsunakashima as he runs across the screen is often a disaster.

If you are in defense of surnames, please know that your name sucks and is not memorable to anyone other than yourself (unless you're Belgian, Rofl, that is...)

First of all, I despise having to mis-name my character to be able to have one that I want. This game lets me walk through town once without seeing 10 people with the following names..

-Cloud
-Clowd
-Clouud
-Clouuud
-Clooud

or

-Sephiroth
-Sephiiroth
-Sephirothh
etc
etc
etc

At the very least people can use a more diverse set of names. It iritates the living hell out of me when I am forced to misspell a name that I often like just to obtain it. I loved having my name as Amecia, but I'm forced to scour name books, wikipedia, google, etc for another hour or two just to find a decent one and hope that one isn't taken as well.

Yeah, i thought they were sort of silly.

It anything it just makes /telling a hell of a lot more tedious.

Yes, the /tell function sucks right now. It would be nice if we could get a CTRL + R function for auto reply to last sender.

You do know that if you are sending /tells to just one person you can do /cm t Mr Smith , and it will set that as your default chat right?

[Rhianu]

I think surnames should be available as an option, but I dislike the fact that we're all forced to use them.

Back before release, Tanaka said surnames were implemented to ensure players can always get the name they want. Well guess what, SE? The name I want is only ONE name! Forcing me to use two names takes away my freedom to use the name I truly want.

I understand some people might run into issues if the name they want is already taken, and so surnames should be available as an optional choice for them, but for the rest of us they're just unnecessary and obtrusive.

[Maat]

I like the idea of Surnames it makes the game a lot more realistic in my opinion. And it prevents random thrown together names with no spaces.. All they need to do is fix the /tell functions and search features so that only one half of the name needs to be put in to tell or look for someone .. Or maybe a /sea all function like in FFXI.. And to fix the name crowding ..there was also a function that could take off names in XI just by typing /names. Surnames aren't the problem the /tell function and search feature is where the game needs work.

[Smashington]

BelgianRofl, you are teh Ubertroll.

Everyone I know, in all 3 LS and every forum, has heard of you! You are famous!

Are you trying to seek attention in any possible way? It's working. Keep it up. You could, one day, be known worldwide for being banned from the most forums ever!

How do you contain all that Epic in just one person?