Name Changes

[loramin]

Originally Posted by Lhancelot [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Hey Loramin, let's say they changed your name a day ago before Llandris posted that they were doing so, say you log in to play Loramin, and find your character now with the name "Himpuh" or some other name which you have absolutely no connection to, would you simply say, "oh well hey I understand, it was found inappropriate and I am just fine that it got wiped off." Time to log in and play now!

No you would not.

That's kind of like asking "well how would you like it if you were in jail for cow tipping ...". Well that's a hard hypothetical, because I never have and never would go cow tipping ... just like I've never created a name that violated the rules (despite having multiple accounts worth of alts to name). If I name a character after something, it's something extremely obscure, like an ancient greek novel, that 99% of people on the server would never have heard of.

But I do have empathy, and I have guild mates with some truly awful names who I consider to be friends. I'm sure it would suck for them to login and find their name changed. Would it be unexpected? No, the rules have always been there, they just got away with breaking them for a long time. But it would still suck for them, and I'd hope that the staff would let them pick a new (non-violating) name that they like so they could still enjoy playing their character.