Removal of Surnames

[Abriael]

Other, more successful MMOs.

Correlation does not imply causation. Those MMOs aren't more successful because they don't have surnames.
Logical fallacy = Invalid point.

[Nuru]

OK, Rift and FFXI.

Rift isn't at all successful buddy. lol perhaps more successful than FFXIV but thats not because of surnames. I think you can judge the use of surnames by how many complaints it gets from game to game.

Its more of a problem in any MMO to have the name you really want. The surnames in FFXIV were intended for this reason, and for the reason that this game is more RP-Oriented, thus granting everyone the option to choose the name they want.

[chime85]

Rift isn't at all successful buddy. lol perhaps more successful than FFXIV but thats not because of surnames. I think you can judge the use of surnames by how many complaints it gets from game to game.

Its more of a problem in any MMO to have the name you really want. The surnames in FFXIV were intended for this reason, and for the reason that this game is more RP-Oriented, thus granting everyone the option to choose the name they want.

Thankyou very much for sharing my opinion and saving me the trouble of posting that very argument

OK, Rift and FFXI.

Rift.....the Wow rip-off? seeing as it HAS (and we all know it) ripped off Wow, I would hardly say any success it has made was from it's own merit. Simple pulling Wow fans to new scenery

[Nuru]

You're welcome Kitty. ^^

[sasukeuchiha]

define successfull. The lengh of time cannot determine success, this game has been out for less than a year, so of course cannot be determined via time to it's earlier counterpart for example.

I imagine you will quote playerbase/subscriptions. I would very much like to see ACTUALL figures. These figures of course, in line with the games age. I dont want to see an example of Wow as it is now in your comparison. Give me the subscriptions of Wow when it was six months old, and the subscriptions of FFXIV as it is today.

You brought up the word successfull, now please back that claim up with evidence

Well wouldnt more subcribers make a game more succesfull ?

Rift isn't at all successful buddy. lol perhaps more successful than FFXIV but thats not because of surnames. I think you can judge the use of surnames by how many complaints it gets from game to game.

Its more of a problem in any MMO to have the name you really want. The surnames in FFXIV were intended for this reason, and for the reason that this game is more RP-Oriented, thus granting everyone the option to choose the name they want.

Well is alot more succesfull then this game. Even if rift is a wow clone the fact they have more subcribers show there doing way better then this game anyway.

[Renshi]

Heya!

You know what would be great? Having a One-time Activation code generator included in an ipothetical FFXIV application.
That would solve problems like "I forgot/lost/destroyed/ate the token!". What do you think?

See ya!

[yukikaze_yanagi]

And how is related to surnames ? :X
also, it's more exploitable of a security token

[Nipa]

I love surnames. Less to worry about when servers will be merged.

[Paksenarrion]

I like surnames. Of course when people try to make their names insulting, rude, dirty or just plain stupid it does ruin the whole point.
I think the real problem isn't the surnames being non-optional. The real problem is that no-one is properly filtering. People that get reported for inappropriate names can be around 2 weeks later. Simply because at the moment, the gamemasters are MIA.

[Evangela]

I know why he want to remove surnames

cuz he doesn't want to be called Mr. Rofl anymore