Please allow us to change the name of our characters

[Yurikitty]

I to would like a name change option, after I took my fantasia my name no longer fits. Never liked having to pick a last name in the first place. But, I agree that people will abuse the system. So make it a real life cash transaction and make it 25$, not a cheap 10$. Hell make it 50$, I don't really care, but SE needs to do something to stop RMT and little kids from abusing the system.

[lokinmodar]

So after contacting the GMs a second time, couple months after the first request there still isn't some kind of name change service in sight. Though I won't get into much details why I wish for mine, I'll just drop the word 'ex' and let you guess the rest. There are other people in similar situations to mine and people may want to change their name like they may wish to change the appearance/cosmetics of their character.

I don't really care if I have to spend a few extra bucks for it, or if it's some kind of subscription reward may give out in the future but I'd appreciate if you would take this into consideration.

Come to excalibur and play with me in The mean time

[Mags]

It can be abused, it will be abused. Your name is your name. If they don't add a feature to identify a character to the account than it will be abused as it is on WoW. You are who you are, and there should be no escaping it.

[frostmagemari]

The first thing that came to my mind is that RMT could change their names and get off the blacklist. Alternatively, those who have been hacked and were shouting RMT spam against their will could get a second start without having to start all over again. It really is a double-bladed sword.

If Square operates this like every other game with an /ignore list, then that won't happen. Games like WoW or ToR (those are the only two i've played since XI), are tagged to the character itself, not the name.

Though, I already know that blacklist just tries to hide the text rather than actually blocking a person from sending you messages.. so who knows how their broken system would be with name changes.

It can be abused, it will be abused. Your name is your name. If they don't add a feature to identify a character to the account than it will be abused as it is on WoW. You are who you are, and there should be no escaping it.

The amount of abuse that you think will happen is far higher than the abuse that will ever happen. Of course there are going to be people that abuse the system, though the guild-leaders that do this will be few and far between; And if someone was to take the gil and run, they would more than likely move off server as there would be no chance of someone recognizing them at that point instead of trying to act different for any end-game groups that might know them by their old name (It's very hard to change mannerisms, even the 'speech' pattern in how you type.)

[Ryios]

There is a name change system, it just costs a lot and you have to wait a long time.

Create a character on another server with the same name as your main. Transfer your main to that server and it will make you change your name. Then transfer your character back.

[Mekhana]

Come to excalibur and play with me in The mean time

haha hey lokin

[Whippet]

So after contacting the GMs a second time, couple months after the first request there still isn't some kind of name change service in sight. Though I won't get into much details why I wish for mine, I'll just drop the word 'ex' and let you guess the rest. There are other people in similar situations to mine and people may want to change their name like they may wish to change the appearance/cosmetics of their character.

I don't really care if I have to spend a few extra bucks for it, or if it's some kind of subscription reward may give out in the future but I'd appreciate if you would take this into consideration.

Even tho gil is useless, i feel like you wanna steal a FC bank and that nobody would find you

[Mekhana]

Even tho gil is useless, i feel like you wanna steal a FC bank and that nobody would find you

Sure that might happen if there was anything in the bank to steal. It's not gil that is useless, the bank itself is useless because permissions were thought out irresponsibly and it's so clunky and awkward to use now that I can see it again after a couple months.

By the way here is the almighty Federal Bank of the Edelweiss Free Company, I'd be such a master thief by lifting all those raisins. After all, I'd be stealing from myself since I'm the only person with bank permissions.

http://i.imgur.com/Sg5TawT.png?1

[Inquisitor]

I'd be such a master thief by lifting all those raisins.

Those aren't raisins! They're prunes. No one with active taste buds would steal those.