Getting rid of surnames

[MariyaShidou]

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

Personally I'm not much of a fan of "/tell XxxSephirothxxX"

Surname lessen name conflict, like real life.

[AlphaDragoon]

Personally I'm not much of a fan of "/tell XxxSephirothxxX"

Surname lessen name conflict, like real life.

This. I hate the whole "adding stupid symbols or using a name that's like a username on a forum" thing. I like realistic names.

[Kam]

Personally I'm not much of a fan of "/tell XxxSephirothxxX"

Surname lessen name conflict, like real life.

Your essentially saying 1million+ people (the numbers SE are aiming for..) can't invent a unique name with out using the space bar? This? in the days of unique pin numbers and passwords for everything we own, right?

30,000 players and we're arguing over the right to our uniqueness of our last names? Damn. I dont see the need for them to exist. And baring that. I'd want the option to opt out.

It ruins my immersion. And from a practical standpoint its hell if you wana send a quick tell to someone thats just jogged past you. That's just my opinion.

[MariyaShidou]

Your essentially saying 1million+ people (the numbers SE are aiming for..) can't invent a unique name with out using the space bar? This? in the days of unique pin numbers and passwords for everything we own right?

It ruins my immersion. And from a practical standpoint its hell if you wana send a quick tell to someone jogging by you. That's just my opinion.

What "immersion" by having a name only give? Name only is usually reserved for some very great entity, like a Primal, Archon or a God.

[AlphaDragoon]

Your essentially saying 1million+ people (the numbers SE are aiming for..) can't invent a unique name with out using the space bar? It ruins my immersion. And from a practical standpoint its hell if you wana send a quick tell to someone jogging by you. That's just my opinion.

I just want to make sure I'm not misunderstanding you.

You're saying that having names as they work in the real world (first name/surname) is bad...and having stuff like "XxXG0DlySephir0th86XxX" is a better option for immersion? Really?

How is it that a naming convention that actually exists in the real world is less immersive than something that looks like a bad chatroom username on AOL back in the 90's?

[Kam]

I just want to make sure I'm not misunderstanding you.

You're saying that having names as they work in the real world (first name/surname) is bad...and having stuff like "XxXG0DlySephir0th86XxX" is a better option for immersion? Really?

How is it that a naming convention that actually exists in the real world is less immersive than something that looks like a bad chatroom username on AOL back in the 90's?

what i find most interesting is you're assuming a space bar STOPS those kind of names.

people will always be idiots. and its not worth discussing.

[MariyaShidou]

what i find most interesting is you're assuming a space bar STOPS those kind of names.

Because in fact it does?

[AlphaDragoon]

what i find most interesting is you're assuming a space bar STOPS those kind of names.

people will always be idiots. and its not worth discussing.

Perhaps you're not playing the same game I am...but it in fact HAS stopped those kinds of names for the most part. There's a lot of folks with names that actually make sense rather than look like ridiculous chatroom names.

And again, instead of evading by talking about a space bar, literally EXPLAIN how having one name, where people's choices often get taken and have to resort to the ridiculous or the "username" style names, makes a game more immersive (immersive meaning you the player are more drawn into the game's world) than having two names like we do in the real world.

[Zuellni]

Your essentially saying 1million+ people (the numbers SE are aiming for..) can't invent a unique name with out using the space bar? This? in the days of unique pin numbers and passwords for everything we own, right?

Are we talking about the same 1million+ people who more than likely share these 500 hundred common passwords here? I think you give people too much credit.

But still, while I'm not one of the many who would be in danger of having their name of choice already being taken, I rather like my first and last name combination as it does add an additional sense of uniqueness. I do agree that there needs to be a better way to send someone tells at a moment's notice.

I personally like Belgian Rofl's suggestion a while back. But the simpler to code and more likely to be used solution would be a right click menu to send tells, access a player's bazaar and check their gear, etc. I suppose for gamepad users the solution would be to add a Send Tell option in the Interactions Menu.

[Griss]

I was wondering when this topic would be brought up again..