Quote Originally Posted by Dragon View Post
Sure, make them optional. That's a fine middle road.
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.