Name Change or Riot Thread

[Ryel]

I see you have not spent much time playing mmos lol

We had a player that was so hated on our server on xi that he literally rolled more chars so he could make a pt. The ENTIRE server hated this guy and he knew it very well, but it was nothing that he hadn't brought upon himself. Not only was he rude but he would completely rip off any ls he joined and would ninja loot everything he could then claim he didn't understand the loot rules, but ppl were onto him and just stopped inviting him.

Now think of how bad it would have been if he could change his name any time he wanted. Piss off and steal from one ls and then change his name/appearance and do it again, then again and again with other groups.

That is where that level of anger comes from.

And I agree about the rp thing, have you ever tried to change your name in rl, even taking on a nickname of your own choosing? Doesn't work too well so doubtful it fits into rp standards as much as rerolling would

If this were XI you would be halfway to a point, but servers in XIV don't even remotely emulate the same kind of close player attention that XI had.

The populations are for one much larger on XIV servers and with the introduction of the Duty Finder system it's very likely that there are plenty of people on your server you've never even partied or interacted with, in fact even if they were from your server you might not recognize them as such with the tons of repeat names out there, i mean seriously go lodestone the name Highwind.. go on, I'll wait.

This isn't to say that someone couldn't go out of their way to make themselves notorious via /shout or the like in Mor Dhona but the ability to kick / blacklist from party finder etc kind of solves that issue.

In this game there aren't HNMLS to try and hide in and ninja drops or dynamis currencies filling up LS banks to steal, there's 8 man coil and it really shouldn't take that long in a coil group to remove unwanted issues should they arise.

If people are willing to pay for name changes i see no reason why they shouldn't be able to