Shorten Names Poll

[Jinko]

Last names are pointless and its really annoying when you have to type /pcmd add "ridiculously long stupid name"

[Felis]

Last names are pointless and its really annoying when you have to type /pcmd add "ridiculously long stupid name"

Is it better to type CIoudthethirdclone instead Cloud Ferrol?
You still get stupid names without last names

I love the surnames.
My first char is Sonea Felis, my second char is Skadi Felis and my future male Miqo'te should get the surname Felis, too

[Dragon]

They've taken a lot of middle road options even when they probably shouldn't have because of a vocal minority against anything that's not from FFXI. For instance, remember when everyone was complaining about levels and such being displayed on monster names? Yet I haven't run into a single person that has those turned off nowadays, it only confuses new people because some of the options are off by default.

This is a bigger case of that. This is a case where it's not really feasible to have one name or another, among other things it'd impact ingame communication and social lists. I say they should keep the last names, because not many MMOs have them, and without the last names you tend to get a lot of cookie cutter names with one letter changed. People can be more unique with this system.

While I agree with your first paragraph's logic (though I pay no attention to the broken aggro icon I can't turn off!), I can't agree with the 2nd paragraph. Did you ever play City of Heroes? I think it was also in Champions Online too, where they had an ability to make the surname optional in a manner of speaking.