Getting rid of surnames

[Kam]

rly? still going on this? still arguing cumbersome and difficult? you know a space is just ONE more character right? typed several in all your posts. no big! extra word. i can't go on! /faint o.O' i can see possibly reducing the total characters between the two names because sometimes two huge names is annoying, and having optional one name. rly if the person wants an annoying name so badly a surname won't stop them. but the whole arguement that the surname is too difficult is just phooey.

Read the first page? eh?

[Overkill9000]

Read the first page? eh?

no ty ^.^;

[Leowilde]

So basically I skipped everything, this thread is way too long to get into now. But to answer the OP question; the day they remove my character's surname, is the day they remove a part of my character. I've had it since I started out. Then it's better to change the way 'tell' works.

[Drunk-Bandit]

lol I take it some people actually hate freedom in mmorpgs... I'd just go back to FFXI or WoW if that's the case...

[Overkill9000]

okay, read the first page, anyways. nope, still sounds retarded. you are of the opinion that you will find some way to accommodate others into your little world of ppl without surnames. i.e. optional surnames, i'm sure this name isn't that common, etc. etc. i'm sorry but ummm.... no ty.

btw *whispers* it's a forum and an open discussion, i'll jump into convo whenever the hell i want

[Meleena]

Keep surnames.

[ZachCero]

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.

There really shouldn't be a problem, once you have talked to that person, all you have to to is type the first 3 letters of their name and hit tab. Itll be there... unless you dont talk to them enough.

[AlexNiculaie]

I like surnames. No desire to get rid of them, nor any need to.

[zaviermhigo]

If a person is in your friends list they will show up in the auto translate or you can /tell them through the list, therefore you only have to remember the last name once, if the person is front of you you can "/t <t>" if you don't want to talk.

If you don't know the person and they /tell you, you can ctrl+r

IMO there is only one situation that sucks, you saw a person try to /t them, they aren't near you anymore and you forgot there last name. That sucks, and it's understandable if you hate it.

But for the most part I think FFXIV did a pretty good job of having little shortcuts in targeting and auto translate to make communicating with people less hard. Some people chose dick move last names anyway and weren't thinking about people actually communicating with them, its so obvious. But I'd like more mmos to adopt a last name system, I'd love to use Zavier in a game but its usually taken up by some dude (me being a chick, the dude's name is pronounce ZAY VEE ER while mine is Zah vee air [so mine is kinda a american weirdo name that copied the french girl pronounciation kinda of xavière (iks sa vi air), i'd put it in proper phonetics if someone cared or needed it lol but that should do it justice.) So I like the last name system and would love to see it expanded. I tend to use Molotovzav a lot in other games with only one name, and its kinda a joke nickname, I'd rather kinda rp with my name in some games.

[Rinoa]

I agree with Alex and Meleena about keeping surnames.