Quote Originally Posted by Ellyllon View Post
The name issue would be so much better if they just freed up the inactive account names. (Doing so by character seems unfair, if the account is active) If they do it now, people can make stand-in characters. Or they could wait until the transfers are open for all, then let people buy renames. (I suppose if I were a company, I'd take this route. Sigh.)


I understand people might come back, after being away for years. But those currently playing should take precedence. How many names were taken at launch & haven't been seen since? When I started - 7 years ago, I guess - I couldn't get a single first-choice name, on any server. And most MMOs reach this point, a time to clean up old, unused names. This is a weird way of doing it. You can - if you're lucky - keep the name you have now, but no other options are available. (Or I haven't heard they're considering cleaning up inactive acct names, anyway)

I have "only" 5 big chars. 4 of them are 8 years old. I do not care about the names of the other little ones, as they are mostly crafting alts or just vault-chars. But in the last days i checked my 5 mains on the other servers. Only two of them was available across all. The nems of the other three (inc. my very main char) is used by low level chars (under lvl 20 or just even a level 1 char), and none of these low level chars was online at least for 6 monts (this because i can not see the year of the last login). More strange for one of my names (and only for this name): i could not use it during character creation becaus "the name is used" but when i tired to add this name to the FL it said: "you can not add this name to your list" ...so what??? a banned account??

So however ... if the account holder log in in the next days: i'm the looser. If the account holder not log in in the next days: i'm the looser, if the other character's last login is shorter than a year. If the name is used by a banned account: i'm the looser. If my server is getting closed and we are at the end of the transfer: i'm the looser, since some one else can then use rename-token even if his char just a level 1.

I dont think Turbine really perused the name conflict issu.