Namingway Card items?

[hdepaula]

OH MY GOD! Why do you care if someone you blacklisted called "John" changed his name to "Smith"!? when you blacklist someone, you cant join their party, you cant talk to them, you cant be with them, you cant be thrown with them on DF or PF, YOU CAN'T SEE THEM! So why the freak do you care about his name change? do you check your blacklist everyday and be like "yep, John is definitely still there" -.- I love the ones who are like "Yeah he should totally get what he deserves" really? that's so forgiving of you. You know what? don't worry about them 'cause 80% of them are out of your world and annoying someone else as we speak, making billion of friends while your still alone saying "Yeah he should totally get what he deserves" and he's having a blast. Report and get over it.

in the future we definitely want to offer more phials of Fantasia as well as something that allows players to change their name.

One year later......*Cries* When will this day come?

[Mahri]

Stop talking like the concern over people "escaping a reputation" if they change your name holds even the slightest bit of water.

It doesn't.

Being stuck with one name does not change behavior in the slightest. Being able to change names would be viewed as a means of clearing their reputation by a fraction of a fraction of the game's population, and it wouldn't even be effective then. The blacklist almost entirely covers this, and where the blacklist falls short, continued bad behavior would be more than enough to quickly regain one's bad rap -- unless, of course, they behaved better from then on out and used a name change as a legitimate way to make a fresh start, in which case: More power to them.

The positive benefit this would have to other players would be greater by several orders of magnitude.

[Melinabean0]

It has been said by others here that "escaping a reputation" would be their main concern. As others have also said, if this is done correctly and like other games have done, it wouldn't matter because their name would be changed across the board. Even if you went into your blacklist and saw a name you didn't recognize, it would be safe to assume you put them there for a reason. If a friend changed their name, chances are they would have told you. As Mahri said as well, if they are an ass then their new name will get blacklisted or reported just as often. If they are using it to actually make a new start, great! It has been suggested that this should only be able to happen once in a certain time frame, making it rather expensive in game, making it a RL pay service. There have been many ideas for solutions to this problem that's not really a problem.

Other games have this feature. They have not exploded from all the people with bad reputations running around changing their name.

[dughug]

I support a name changing service. First time is free.

[FJerome]

As I understand it, blacklists are tied to player IDs, not names, so name-changes should be safe in that respect.

I also want to change my name for RP reasons. SE why can't I give you more money yet?!

[Melinabean0]

SE why can't I give you more money yet?!

Yes, why won't you let me give you money for this?! We are practically throwing it at you right now...

[odie]

Yes, why won't you let me give you money for this?! We are practically throwing it at you right now...

Ikr? The second it becomes available I'm on it

[hdepaula]

Ikr? The second it becomes available I'm on it

so am I

[Thosinwurth]

I think it's silly that we have fantasia potions and no name change, it's keeping me from buying any fantasia's because I know I'll have a non-lore friendly name! I'd really like to see a combo, 1 fantasia and 1 name change, being sold in the store. I'm hoping that when they fix the mog station so you can purchase more than 1 set of 1 fantasia that they'll start to add more items

I also agree that the "bad people will use it to continue to be bad" argument is nonexistent, for the reasons Mahri stated

[Melinabean0]

Ikr? The second it becomes available I'm on it

Yep! I've even been planning a new name...juuust in case...