Getting rid of surnames

[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.

[PrettyPrincess]

For anyone who wants to get rid of surnames, if we lose them... I will find you.

This ^ .

[Kam]

Konata has become a very popular name to use in online MMO's with anime feels to them because of this Konata

Weird. /10char

[Konachibi]

also some reference names lose their awesomeness with a lack of surname. For instance, I saw someone with a character named Rebecca Miyamoto, a clever choice of name as it's the main character of an anime called Pani Poni Dash that was published by Square Enix. without a surname, she just becomes Rebecca, and the joke is lost.

[Kam]

Well, there is only a little reading required if say, the surname wasn't there, she would just spell itoutlikethisno?

As people generally tend to do that anyway, with or without a surname.

[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.

[Konachibi]

If I lose the name Konata I will kill people!

[Aramil]

I'm 100% against removal of surname. I like my surname and while I don't care much about making them optional in the future, removing them would just cause too much trouble since a lot of people are already using the same first name.

[Konachibi]

If I lose my first name due to the loss of a surname I could not re-enact this for my own personal enjoyment

[Ashgarth]

Every once in a while someone feels the necessity to open a thread to remove surnames for some reason.

Not gonna happen.