Is that names are so limited! With 20 billion people registering accounts over time pretty much every name you can think of get's taken. There are VERY few MMO's that allow spaces. I just don't understand why. Let people put a space! That way if for example I want a name and it's taken I can put Lady in front of it. A boy could put Lord or Sir and so on. And there are so many other  variations.

One thing that really annoys me, is people with numbered names. Naruto5, Cloud10, Sepiroth22 always the same names over and over. I usually go to baby names sites to name my characters based on what I like most on the list. If I ever give birth to a child (let's hope not anytime soon) and I live in Japan, I'll already have a billion names to choose from~

Anyway they should really unrestrict names, and make it possible to make more variations. All they need to add is the ability to space. Or they could always make people choose a unique last name.

It's an issue, but I wouldn't say it's the worst problem there is.  Still, it sucks when someone has a name you want, but are just a level 1 character created 1 month after release and the account hasn't been active for years.

There should be a level of decay or something, if you haven't logged a char on in 3 months then it starts losing XP until it's finally deleted.  Companies only see the issue from the perspective of lost prospects that would occur when someone came back and their character was gone.

I've heard that in some games you can petition to get a name squatters name changed so you can take for yourself, but I have no experience.  

I've found that even in highly saturated environments, picking a good name can be quite a task, but at the same time I've always managed to come up with a name that I'm happy with.

That's the WORST problem in MMOs? Seriously?

Originally posted by Palebane

That's the WORST problem in MMOs? Seriously?

This made me LOL

Originally posted by Aemi

Is that names are so limited! With 20 billion people registering accounts over time pretty much every name you can think of get's taken. There are VERY few MMO's that allow spaces. I just don't understand why. Let people put a space! That way if for example I want a name and it's taken I can put Lady in front of it. A boy could put Lord or Sir and so on. And there are so many other  variations.

One thing that really annoys me, is people with numbered names. Naruto5, Cloud10, Sepiroth22 always the same names over and over. I usually go to baby names sites to name my characters based on what I like most on the list. If I ever give birth to a child (let's hope not anytime soon) and I live in Japan, I'll already have a billion names to choose from~

Anyway they should really unrestrict names, and make it possible to make more variations. All they need to add is the ability to space. Or they could always make people choose a unique last name.

Yes, just what MMO's need.

I R Rulez

UR SUCK

King David

Bilbo

The Bilbo

El Bilbo

Teh Bilbo

Just come up with a new name, or use the auto name generator until you see something you sort of like and tweak it a bit.

An actual  improvement would be to remove names that have been taken from the name generators - that is annoying.

Originally posted by heremypet

There should be a level of decay or something, if you haven't logged a char on in 3 months then it starts losing XP until it's finally deleted.  Companies only see the issue from the perspective of lost prospects that would occur when someone came back and their character was gone.

As an ex-military member, I would have to say this is the worst idea I've ever seen for an mmo. That's pretty effed up when you delete a guys characters because he was off getting shot at in a war for 15 months straight.

I can agree that naming a toon can be frustrating in estiblished MMOs, but I don't think it is the worse problem common to MMOs by a long shot.

It's definetly not the worst problem, but I understand the frustration.  Where do you think Angelicremix came from?

A bigger problem imo is stupid names.  I always hated getting a crafted item in WoW, and you walk around with it on and it says 'crafted by Ballsweat'  I didn't really appreciate having to wear armor made by people with stupid names.

If you're going to be derogatory, at least use a clever name.  I think the best name I ever saw on WoW was a frost mage with the name 'Frostitute'. 

Originally posted by Angelicremix

It's definetly not the worst problem, but I understand the frustration.  Where do you think Angelicremix came from?

A bigger problem imo is stupid names.  I always hated getting a crafted item in WoW, and you walk around with it on and it says 'crafted by Ballsweat'  I didn't really appreciate having to wear armor made by people with stupid names.

If you're going to be derogatory, at least use a clever name.  I think the best name I ever saw on WoW was a frost mage with the name 'Frostitute'. 

I agree with you on the stupid names. People like that should be banned or forced to change their name.

The title is just a clever way to get people to look at the topic >_> You people are taking it too literally.

Isnt that what tabloids do?

 EXCLUSIVE; PICS OF MJ IN BED WITH CHILDREN He was watching a Disney DVD with his own kids after lunch.

Originally posted by Caleveira

Isn that what tabloids do? EXCLUSIVE; PICS OF MJ IN BED WITH CHILDREN He was watching a Disney DVD with his own children after lunch.

It works doesn't it?

If you completely disregard the basic principles of ethic journalism, yea, i guess it works...

Originally posted by Aemi

Originally posted by Caleveira

Isn that what tabloids do? EXCLUSIVE; PICS OF MJ IN BED WITH CHILDREN He was watching a Disney DVD with his own children after lunch.

It works doesn't it?

Same basic idea of why I hate attention whores; do anything for a scrap of attention regardless of how negative it can be.

Originally posted by Angorim

Originally posted by Aemi

Originally posted by Caleveira

Isn that what tabloids do? EXCLUSIVE; PICS OF MJ IN BED WITH CHILDREN He was watching a Disney DVD with his own children after lunch.

It works doesn't it?

 

Same basic idea of why I hate attention whores; do anything for a scrap of attention regardless of how negative it can be.

People who whine about meaningless things are much worse.

 yeah, far from the worst problem in MMOs.