Namingway Card items?

[AxlTheHunter]

I also went with a more lore-friendly last name. I had started out as an Elezen and now my Highlander looks silly running around with my Elezen last name...

Though a Roe with a Lala name would be even sillier...

Almost as good as a mid sized Miqo'te named Chibi Kaito. I swear I havn't used a fantasia at any point, really!

[Dyne_Fellpool]

I really dont want people with a deservedly bad reputation to be able to change their name.
No, ignore list doesnt make this issue magically disappear.

[Lurkios]

I really dont want people with a deservedly bad reputation to be able to change their name.
No, ignore list doesnt make this issue magically disappear.

That would be my main concern as well. There's a few folks on my server whose name have becomes verbs describing various acts of... less than desirable behavior. I'd really hate to see any system that allowed them to leave that reputation behind outside of starting over from scratch.

That said, they are the VAST minority - and it wouldn't be right to let them ruin it for those that really do deserve the option of a name change.

[Seiryuukishi]

Maybe we'll get a surprise and it'll come out 2.4? I would hope so. Sick of the Basch fon Rosenburg jokes. Need lore appropriate name.

[Uielyave]

I'd love for name-change items. Need to give a new name to one of my miqo'te so i can RP her with a different name.
As for people with bad reps, this can be fixed if somehow their names stay on your ignore lists and just change when changed by the player.

[TheMunimai]

Not sure how difficult it would be to implement but maybe if they changed it so when you put someone on your blacklist it "blacklisted" their account not just their character?

[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?

[Nyhmrae]

I'd love for name-change items. Need to give a new name to one of my miqo'te so i can RP her with a different name.
As for people with bad reps, this can be fixed if somehow their names stay on your ignore lists and just change when changed by the player.

I like this . That way they can remain blacklisted and you don't have to worry about "so and so" coming back to haunt ya!

[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.