Getting rid of surnames

[Kam]

I'd like to hear peoples opinions on this. I've had a few discussions in game with friends and some are for, some are against.

Personally I'm not much of a fan. "/tell Charles whatthehellstupidlongname" is wearing thin.

[Konachibi]

NO!

I like being Konata Chibi and Ren Koneko. Remove surnames and you limit the names people can be. I'd probably lose my name if someone of a higher level was using it too but with a different surname, and I'd be annoyed by that because I always have this is a first name in video games.

If you could just click the name of the person in the chat box to get a little window with options like /tell, /invite, /mute etc. and select one of those you wouldn't need to type that persons name in. That would be a much faster and more convenient system to use without having to remove something other players like.

(It's basically the system warcraft uses for it's chat window)

[Kam]

Mostly wanted to post about this due to seeing the "text resizing" screen shot where "Foxclon" is shown talking with no surname. I wouldn't mind the option to turn them off. But obviously its too complicated.

[Konachibi]

Mostly wanted to post about this due to seeing the "text resizing" screen shot where "Foxclon" is shown talking with no surname. I wouldn't mind the option to turn them off. But obviously its too complicated.

The sole purpose of surnames in MMO's anyways is to allow people to have the first name they want without worrying about someone taking it, as they simply just need to use a different surname, which I feel is less important, since people tend to relate to your character using it's first name.

At the same time perhaps they could just allow you to have a choice whether to give your character a surname or not.

[Kam]

At the same time perhaps they could just allow you to have a choice whether to give your character a surname or not.

I've thought that too. I'm assuming it'd mess with their servers though, heh.

[Pyrix]

No, no, and no. First of all they'd have to force multiple people to change their names, and I doubt anyone wants to do that. And I love my last name.

[MeowMeow]

If you removed surnames then lots of people would be upset. Imagine all the Sephiroth Randomsurnames that would be enraged since they can't be sephiroth anymore, since 12,000 people already took every other variant of the name before them. Not to mention the people with normal names... All the Chris's and Mary's in the world would be sad pandas.

Would be stiff competition over the name Mina as well, seeing as I've seen a few other Mina's running about. No fun!

[DantesAmore]

SOOO many people will be forced to change their names then... i've seen like 12 Alucard's on my server and multiple morph's etc etc. just copy and paste their name if its too long to type

even in FFXI people had super long names like Iamyouronetruelegend, and Feartheunknown, lordofallthatisunholy, alexfuriouswrath etc etc this wouldnt change anything just become a better typer or copy and paste names like i mentioned above lol

wheres the dislike button haha

[Kam]

I'd just like to take a breather here before I have to re-argue any of my points upto this page.

[SIZE="6"]THE TITLE IS MISLEADING[/SIZE]


FROM HENCE FORTH THIS WILL BE KNOWN AS

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Please read through what has been discussed before bringing up old points. For the pure sake of good discussion.

and secondly my sanity =P

[Kyra]

No i like having a surname, leave it alone and add titles to.