Removal of Surnames

[JillianNekonia]

I love the surnames so yay! Really is it that hard to come up with a surname man laziness...

Also if you ever do first "The Horn and the Hand Faction" leves they actually poke fun at the people that try to use Sephiroth as their name and mention at least 4 different ways people to try to write it before the NPC gives up on trying to remember.

And besides just because right now there isn't a use is no reason to take away a unique and harmless feature of the game I mean now your just nit picking.

[Galamantyl]

I'm in favor of a system without surnames.

I'm in favor of a system that is unfair to people who are uncreative and pick some of the dumbest sounding names from other FF titles, various rpgs, and anime.

[Nayt]

Not taking into account that OP is a troll, main thing I see with surnames is that all the migrating people from ffxi should be able to retain their names. Since they all mix up in new servers in ffxiv, odds are a number of the more popular names are already taken. That along with Magicofgaia's excellent examples.

It's not that big of a deal sending a message to a certain player. with <t>, ctrl+r or just the plain ability to type a full name, it's not that tedious.

[DeadRiser]

I like my alliteration.. Lina Lux... It just roles off the tongue!

And I can assure you that over half the people's first names in game aren't that great neither! Like what Jillian Nekonia said, you're just finding little things to pick at

[KaiKatzchen]

Yes, the /tell function sucks right now. It would be nice if we could get a CTRL + R function for auto reply to last sender.

Um.. you can use CTRL + R and it will cycle though roughly the last 5-ish people that you have talked to so you don't have to keep typing their name, this has been in the game for a while now.



As for surnames, I really like having them and I have seen some very clever ones running around. I don't think they will remove them, and I hope they don't because I've also become attached to my name. <3

[Rhianu]

And besides just because right now there isn't a use is no reason to take away a unique and harmless feature of the game I mean now your just nit picking.

I disagree with the notion that surnames are harmless.

Surnames have their advantages, sure, but there are several downsides as well. For example, as I already pointed out, one downside is that their forced usage strips players of their freedom to choose the name they really want (I wanted to simply name my character Rhianu, but the game forced me to come up with a surname, which took away a certain degree of my freedom). Plus it also creates a situation in which every single player has a ridiculously long name, thus making it annoying when trying to send /tells, and creating an excessive amount of on-screen text. Also, some names just feel less interesting when a surname is stuck on the end of it.

Surnames should be available as an option, but they should be just that: an option. They should not be mandatory.

[Kilta_Firelotus]

I like surnames. And I believe there is away to save nick names to ppl we talk to alot

My forum name is my planed game name actually.

As for the OP, sorry but you name is far from creative, forum name that is.

[Vackashken]

I like them.

[Wolfie]

People are unoriginal regardless of surnames. Surnames are literally such a non-issue, that it would be a waste of time to remove them at this point.

[DeadRiser]

I disagree with the notion that surnames are harmless.

Surnames have their advantages, sure, but there are several downsides as well. For example, as I already pointed out, one downside is that their forced usage strips players of their freedom to choose the name they really want (I wanted to simply name my character Rhianu, but the game forced me to come up with a surname, which took away a certain degree of my freedom). Plus it also creates a situation in which every single player has a ridiculously long name, thus making it annoying when trying to send /tells, and creating an excessive amount of on-screen text. Also, some names just feel less interesting when a surname is stuck on the end of it.

Surnames should be available as an option, but they should be just that: an option. They should not be mandatory.

That's the thing though, without surnames, you'll have people with Rhianu4352 and people trying to spell it different ways. The point of surnames is to where you can have the same first name with spelling. I get the 'sounds better without' but I'm sure there is a name that would sound good... or you just picked a bad first name