Quote Originally Posted by Penthea View Post
The thing is WoW actually needs name culling. You can have only a one word name in that game, which can make finding an available name you like be very troublesome. I have spent several hours trying to find a name in WoW. It was especially difficult if I wanted a lore appropriate name. Sometimes the most obscure names in my tiny country's language, that is only spoken there, were taken. Sometimes even names I made up were taken. Many times I have had to settle for a name I didn't like because trying to find one I do enjoy felt like a lost cause. Furthermore you can now have the 50 character limit all on one server, so you can literally save 50 names in one server. FFXIV does not have this situation at all given we can have a max of only 8 characters per server.
i actually didn't know this. i haven't played since pandaria, so hearing that you can now have 50 characters on one server is a shock lol. i suppose that's fair in WoW's case, though like you said, something that isn't needed in XIV.