@Yoshida> Please remove inactive lvl1-49 characters that take popular names!

[Jijifli]

This isn't an uncommon system for MMO's. WoW has a system where you can contact a GM and ask them if a name has been inactive long enough and if it has they can free the name up for you to use. Games like TERA have also done that where if a person hadn't logged in for a certain amount of time, their name was freed up and the character is flagged for a rename. That doesn't always mean just because your name was freed up that you'll lose it, if you've chosen a very unique name then it's highly unlikely that it will be taken from you. It doesn't mean the character gets deleted, only that someone else can get the name if the person hadn't logged in for a while, if someone hasn't logged in for 2-3 years though? I don't see why they shouldn't have their names freed up. I am perfectly fine with that system.

That being said, when you mean popular names, I can only guess that you're referring to completely unoriginal people that lack any sort of creativity and name their character after some popular character from a video game or a book or an anime or a tv show despite it specifically stated as being against the ToS. I'd rather names like that be locked out entirely (looking at all you Kirito/Asuna/Sephiroth/Cloud/Squall wannabes) and I certainly report them when I see them because it's against the ToS.

First off, confirmed by WoW's GM's, characters made after wrath are free to go, and it's not if a name has been inactive, but a subscription. I had a troll druid take Millhouse, which I wanted, and they were offline for so long they didn't even have an armory. They were pretty low level too, really would only take a couple days to get there now. However, the GM couldn't let me have the name because the character was made after wrath, and the player was still subbed, meaning I would have to wait for them to stop for years and cover names from Cataclysm, at least I am assuming the character was made then.

As for the second paragraph, there are plenty of people with names like those. So if they're against ToS, should I be going on a ticket spree for the sake of Balmung? Some people don't realize that they could have put in a popular name into it. For example, I had a character with "Jojo" in the name, but never knew about Jojo's Bizzare Adventure. Should I have gotten in trouble? I'm not saying everyone accidentally did, but some honestly are accidents.

[ChandraNoctis]

Some people don't realize that they could have put in a popular name into it. For example, I had a character with "Jojo" in the name, but never knew about Jojo's Bizzare Adventure. Should I have gotten in trouble? I'm not saying everyone accidentally did, but some honestly are accidents.

Lol that's my problem. This character name is one I used quite a while ago and it's Noctis as in the genitive from of Nox (Latin for night - so she's sort of Chandra of the night - was originally a moonkitty so it made sense sort of ) and no relation to FFXV but now everyone thinks my character is unoriginally named after that Noctis.

[Lissandra]

Lol that's my problem. This character name is one I used quite a while ago and it's Noctis as in the genitive from of Nox (Latin for night - so she's sort of Chandra of the night - was originally a moonkitty so it made sense sort of ) and no relation to FFXV but now everyone thinks my character is unoriginally named after that Noctis.

I sorta have that issue with my first name. I've used it since 2010 before the so called "Ice Witch" came to be, and some people think I got it from LoL.