Please remove text input for last names

[Kilta_Firelotus]

I thought you can set up nick names for the people you can send tells to. so no one is truelly forced to write out both names unless its once. And even still I know many games that use first and last names and none of those got changed.

[Reika]

There are 2 reika's on my server... so yea Last name is necessary.

I can tell you tho, when you are replying to someone or sending a tell to someone on your friends list or someone you sent a tell to in the past (before logging off), just type /t Ven then press tab. Peoples names are stored in the auto-translation window as well, it will fill in the rest for you.

[Evangela]

Go back to Typing class

[Chrees]

I thought you can set up nick names for the people you can send tells to. so no one is truelly forced to write out both names unless its once. And even still I know many games that use first and last names and none of those got changed.

This is quite possibly the most intelligent thing I've seen you write on these forums. (Congratulations!) /clap

But in all seriousness, this was a feature they were touting in interviews last year. Again, I realize this was under Tanaka, but they promised a system to where you could assign people in your friends list "nicknames" that you could choose yourself. This would allow for people to keep their last names, and /tells to be sent as they currently are, but also allow for the player to be able to quickly send /tells to their friends.

I'll try and find the interview when I get a chance. I'm currently at work posting this, haha.

EDIT: Found it faster than I expected: LINK

Eorzeapedia: Will surnames be optional? If not, how will you make it easier to send /tells to other players?

Tanaka: It’s going to be mandatory. You have to have a surname. The surname and the name will be unique. There will only be one person on the server who has that name. However, you will have a sort of short version – a nickname of the full name. So for example, Saori Hill will be my full name, but if you make it remember “Saori”, then you only have to use “Saori” to /tell someone.

Eorzeapedia: Is that nickname chosen by the player during the character creation?

Tanaka: When you make a /tell for the first time, if you type in “Saori”, you will have every Saori in every world appearing in the results. So you select which one is going to be Saori for yourself. The user will decide what the nickname is going to be for the other person.