Shorten Names Poll

[Felis]

Last names are pointless and its really annoying when you have to type /pcmd add "ridiculously long stupid name"

Is it better to type CIoudthethirdclone instead Cloud Ferrol?
You still get stupid names without last names

I love the surnames.
My first char is Sonea Felis, my second char is Skadi Felis and my future male Miqo'te should get the surname Felis, too

[Dragon]

They've taken a lot of middle road options even when they probably shouldn't have because of a vocal minority against anything that's not from FFXI. For instance, remember when everyone was complaining about levels and such being displayed on monster names? Yet I haven't run into a single person that has those turned off nowadays, it only confuses new people because some of the options are off by default.

This is a bigger case of that. This is a case where it's not really feasible to have one name or another, among other things it'd impact ingame communication and social lists. I say they should keep the last names, because not many MMOs have them, and without the last names you tend to get a lot of cookie cutter names with one letter changed. People can be more unique with this system.

While I agree with your first paragraph's logic (though I pay no attention to the broken aggro icon I can't turn off!), I can't agree with the 2nd paragraph. Did you ever play City of Heroes? I think it was also in Champions Online too, where they had an ability to make the surname optional in a manner of speaking.

[Altera]

Ive always wanted both first and surnames in a mmo. Alot of other MMOs only has first names, and the playerbase has suggested the game producer to allow surnames to allow more variety in naming their characters.

[Majidah]

they just need to add tab to autocomplete names, like a translator list. I dont wanna change my name.

[Hartigan_Redsail]

I think it's great we can have a first and last name. I wouldn't wanna change mine, but maybe let people have only one name if they want? I dunno

[Seyra]

When I need to /tell someone in front of me I just do "/t <t> blabla" so it's not really a problem. For people I don't see and need to party with, generally they talked at least once or shouted or what not but for me to have awareness of their existence I had to see their names on my log before. So I grab my mouse and copy/paste the name.

For people I often chat with via /tell, it would be nice to be able to add nicknames.

Exemple: My character is Seyra Mihgo, a friend could add my nickname, say "Sey", in a specific menu (other than Friend List menu) that writes it in a database on your Final Fantasy XIV user folder. When he wants to /tell me he would just type "/t Sey blabla".

[Lienn]

IMO shortening names is just a stupid idea that obviously reflect the lack of cultural respect from this dev team to non-japanese community.

Not all languages can write a full name with 4 kanjis... :/

And assuming one of the game official language is german (which happens to have some terribly long names) i do think it's at least disrespectful of him to think about shortening names...

If they want shorter names, they should add a racial template for every race. This way, as example, a dude that don't want a custom name and surname can just use the template name to write something in the race style, like A'B (Y'shtola) for seeker of sun, AAB (Momodi) for dunefolk, AB CB (Yoran Oran) for plainfolk, etc. Just make a pop-up list of syllables/words that can enter there and that's it.

[Dalmore]

Pleasse get rid of surnames... its annoying as hell to type out some of them long names.... /pcmd add ABCDEFGHI JKLMNOPQRS.... enough said pretty dumb idea.

[Aleczan]

Last names are pointless and its really annoying when you have to type /pcmd add "ridiculously long stupid name"

Pleasse get rid of surnames... its annoying as hell to type out some of them long names.... /pcmd add ABCDEFGHI JKLMNOPQRS.... enough said pretty dumb idea.

Just a useful tip I think you guys might want to use/adapt to solve the problem for now until they change it, if they change it, the way you want. ^^

There are plenty methods to solve that.

1) Copy and paste their name from your chat log.
2) Ask them to come stand in front of you so you can use <t> in place of their "OMGLongName AndLongSurname".
3) If they're the last person that sent /tell to you, you can use <r> instead. you can hit CTRL+r to call up their name into your chat input line, then delete the /tell part and reuse the name right there.
4) If it's someone in your friend list, you can invite from friend list.
5) If you've sent/received a /tell from them recently (most recent 30, according to my list) you'll have their name in [audience] list which allows you to use auto-translation (TAB KEY) function to auto-fill the whole name for you.
6) Only invite those who have short name (LOL! J/K)

Except it's annoying as **** when it randomly deletes people that you regularly talk to for no reason.

Oh wow. That would totally suck and irritating. Why would the system do that? Sorry it happens to you. I never noticed that happening to me. But again I only have 3-4 people I send tell to on regular basis. And my [audience] list would grow to 30 names, then stay that way. Recent audience gets to the top page of the list. It has pushed off some people down the bottom, though. But I always keep my top 30.