Name-Change Caveats and How to Avoid Them

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Also, say someone searches your old name on google and follows the link to the lodestone, it will just have your new character on there, since the website links to your character ID.

Basically, if anyone has a reason to want to know your new name, they will be able to find it.

Also if someone has added you to their friendlist and you accepted, they can look you up on their Lodestone wall (http://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/my/) and follow the link to your new name to have your Lodestone ID, making changing server useless if you wanted people not to be able to trace you