Harrasment & Malicious Intent

[Shibi]

...one friend even made Adric...

I liked Adric, pity he had to end up on the B-Ark and plummet to a fiery dinosaur-killing death.

[Packetdancer]

I liked Adric, pity he had to end up on the B-Ark and plummet to a fiery dinosaur-killing death.

I actually think poor Adric got a really lousy deal, yeah, though I recognize he's not a terribly popular character. The reason the person thought better of it was less because of Adric-as-a-charcter and more we gave him a lot of crap about picking one of the only companions to permanently die in an episode and how he was dooming his character from the start.

If only Black Wolf would have been a less popular of a name so you guys could have nabbed that too.

Oh, the short-lived guild we made was named "Bad Wolf Incorporated". We went deep on the joke; as I said, we were bored.

But as much as I love fan-nerding out about stuff I enjoy, none of that's directly relevant to OP's situation. Save inasmuch as an illustration of the fact that unfortunately it's hard to argue that "Sarah Jane" as a name is specifically and uniquely identified with this particular player.

Bad Wolf not Black Wolf

To be fair, on an FFXIV forum, accidentally writing "Black Wolf" (i.e., Gaius van Baelsar) instead of "Bad Wolf" is a pretty understandable typo.

[RobynDaBank]

I mean, I had a character briefly (on a different MMO, not here) named Sarah Jane, as a reference to Sarah Jane Smith from Doctor Who. My friend had managed to make a character who looked like David Tennant, and we decided to make a joke out of it and a bunch of friends and I put together more or less an entire TARDIS crew drawing from both NuWho and Classic Who; there was an AussieTeagan and a SarahJane and a RoseTyler and a DoctorMartha... and one friend even made Adric (as "MathBoy") before he reconsidered the wisdom of that choice. It was a whole Thing.

If only Black Wolf would have been a less popular of a name so you guys could have nabbed that too.

[Jeeqbit]

All you can really do is try the support. If it doesn't work, you could instead use another name. Many streamers don't use exactly the same name as they do on twitch or use a variation.

You could also try making one on another server if you can accept a different server.

[Conundrum]

Well I guess I'm the one coming off as a villain.

You don't "own" a name if you don't get it first. It sucks but it's true.

Someone isn't impersonating you by virtue of taking the name you want.

The games support staff does not extend beyond the confines of Square Enix "territory". They can't police what someone might have said on Discord.

We only have your word for happened, a picture of a chat is meaningless.

[dapperfaffer]

Well I guess I'm the one coming off as a villain.

You don't "own" a name if you don't get it first. It sucks but it's true.

Someone isn't impersonating you by virtue of taking the name you want.

The games support staff does not extend beyond the confines of Square Enix "territory". They can't police what someone might have said on Discord.

We only have your word for happened, a picture of a chat is meaningless.

You're right. OP doesn't own the name and it would be easier for them to come up with a new one in game and then block and cease all contact with the harasser. The fact that someone went out of their way to take the name and attempt to extort and coerce OP, clearly thats just normal sane human behavior. But its totally something the OP is responsible for dealing with. /s

As for OP, contact Twitch. Extortion and coercion for streaming activities is a violation of the ToS so if they sent anything through Twitch, or even discord for that matter, it will can be dealt with from that. Unfortunately you are probably going to have to have a different name then the one you want. Just make sure that you stop all responses to the clearly mentally disturbed person and only keep records of things they send you. With enough messages there are other legal routes you can look into that will have a more serious impact for your psycho.

[Conundrum]

You're right. OP doesn't own the name and it would be easier for them to come up with a new one in game and then block and cease all contact with the harasser. The fact that someone went out of their way to take the name and attempt to extort and coerce OP, clearly thats just normal sane human behavior. But its totally something the OP is responsible for dealing with. /s

As for OP, contact Twitch. Extortion and coercion for streaming activities is a violation of the ToS so if they sent anything through Twitch, or even discord for that matter, it will can be dealt with from that. Unfortunately you are probably going to have to have a different name then the one you want. Just make sure that you stop all responses to the clearly mentally disturbed person and only keep records of things they send you. With enough messages there are other legal routes you can look into that will have a more serious impact for your psycho.

Because people never lie on the internet.

[Bsrking5]

I don't think SE will do anything. Plus you already admitted someone was impersonating you intentionally that you asked for. Theres no reserving names, either you have it or you don't. Thats a problem in its own. As far as i see they should give the op a temp ban just on the grounds for impersonating.

The name itself is also a common name. You might as well ban all john smith sort of names if you think it break tos to have a common name.

For the discord message which i assume its from, thats discords issue, not SE.

[Sylve]

I don't think SE will do anything. Plus you already admitted someone was impersonating you intentionally that you asked for. Theres no reserving names, either you have it or you don't. Thats a problem in its own. As far as i see they should give the op a temp ban just on the grounds for impersonating.

The name itself is also a common name. You might as well ban all john smith sort of names if you think it break tos to have a common name.

For the discord message which i assume its from, thats discords issue, not SE.

For regular players a name means very little.
For Streamers or other content creators, Their character names are often associated with their brand.

If someone just took it to annoy them by never actually using the character, that's fine. Happens to all streamers who play MMOs.
The problem is when someone uses that name to impersonate you.
That can do irreparable damage to people with a public image, like a streamer.

Doing or saying something while pretending to be someone else can cause loss of sponsorships, channel demonetizations etc.

Losing your name to a normal player is not the problem.
Impersonation and attempted coercion are literal crimes.

[Conundrum]

For regular players a name means very little.
For Streamers or other content creators, Their character names are often associated with their brand.

If someone just took it to annoy them by never actually using the character, that's fine. Happens to all streamers who play MMOs.
The problem is when someone uses that name to impersonate you.
That can do irreparable damage to people with a public image, like a streamer.

Doing or saying something while pretending to be someone else can cause loss of sponsorships, channel demonetizations etc.

Losing your name to a normal player is not the problem.
Impersonation and attempted coercion are literal crimes.

And Squenix taking away another players name to give it to a streamer would be a PR disaster for them. Because it would be seen as favoritism.