Name change

[Alhanelem]

That is not the case for everyone. My name is fine but when I made my toon I had never really played FF14 before. After a few weeks I realized I liked the cutesy things the female Miqo did and I ended up wanting to change. Why does it bother you so much that some people may have legit reasons to want a change? You can claim you don't care but you obviously do if you felt the need to post that.

Pardon me, where did I claim not to care?

I don't like people being able to change their name for many reasons. It makes it easier to escape a bad past and/or escape with the money/loot after screwing your LS or company over (e.g. take the loot and run). Yes, with name changes reflecting on people's black and friend lists it's not as easy, but it's certainly still possible.

Being able to easily change your name results in people putting less thought into their names, knowing that they can change it on a whim later. Yes, names like Magic Toaster and Barbeque Chicken may be funny at first, but then when your character is stuck with it, you learn to create names that you can live with in the long term.

Since the 1.0 name change was a 1 time thing it didn't bother me as much. But paid name changes will, unless they're expensive and heavily restricted (e.g. can't change again for a long time) so people will only do it if they're really serious about it.

I have a lore based name for the race that I was before I got my potion. There was no attempt by me to be "clever", just me trying to follow the lore when I made my character.

You should have considered that your existing name might not make sense if you chose to change your race/clan with your potion before making the change.

Are you against server changes as well then? Because all that is also possible with a server transfer.

Generally, yes. But I accept that they can sometimes be absolutely necessary, e.g. if a world is too full, or friends not knowing the other was playing, made their characters on separate servers. But a name change is never absolutely necessary.