Getting rid of surnames

[Rinoa]

Hey Renshi, I haven't seen you on here in like forever. I was wondering where you where. =)

[Arcell]

No, surnames are fine. Removal of them would cause a lot of problems and would solve none. People will have stupid and/or uncreative names either way, people need to stop caring so much what other people do.

[Dargoth_Draconia]

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.

If they take away surnames that would actually really hurt this game. Sure there are Charles Whathehells around but in FFXI you commonly seen names like this Sephirothschild and it be some dumb little taru. Then Sephiroth, Sephirothx, Xxsephirothxx Xsephiroth and literally 100 similar variations and many other common names from other games or anime. With all those annoying variations also you had people with long names just as long as in XIV but the only difference is XIV has a space and people can share the same first name or last name. I have brothers who play and we all use the same surname as a tag saying who we are. If you see a Draconia on Wutai you know it is me, my mule, or one of my brothers playing. (sure there is the chance someone else has the same surname but it's cool)

By taking the option away to have the name you want and have to use some alteration to get the name you want would hurt this game, whether it be a little or a lot. Personally I can remember sitting in High School watching videos of FFXI and thought up the name I wanted to use "Darrgoth Draconia. I thought FFXI was going to have surnames for some reason just because it seemed fitting to an online Final Fantasy title. I was slightly disappointed when it came out in US and found out you couldn't have a surname so I just went with the first name. When FFXIV announced that they was bringing us surnames I nearly jumped with joy and even I considering that slightly odd just the ability to have a surname. It would give you the ability to make a name for yourself in a bigger way where everyone can know you as such, instead of oh that is just another one of the name clones.

[Rinoa]

How about X-iroth? I think I'll stick with my name.

[Ragz]

We haven't seen any xxxsephiroth23xxx except that 1 during quest, which tells me it's one thing SE got right actually.

[Rinoa]

Here on Kashuan we don't have many Sephiroths. We have stuff like ironfist,draggonrider,Garliangeneral. Those are the kind of names that stand out like a sore thumb to me.

[AsterBarnivere]

xxxxDarkEmoPrincePrincessLovingKittykatMasterCloudSephirothAuronCecilGolbezunoriginalnameXXXxxx1877

^If you got rid of surnames, then you'll see alot of this

[Rinoa]

NOOOOOOOOOO(GASP)OOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

[Wisdom]

I say leave the surnames. It provides more opportunity to creat the name you want. A /sea all <insert first name> would fix the problem when trying to find the right Richard or Aya or Shade... FFXI had a /sea that was decent. They should implement that function

[nasomi]

A lot of names(including mine...) would not be as good without surnames. Don't blame SE for adding surnames, blame idiots for making retarded names. Then just don't talk to them.