New character naming problem fix that would work

[Yunru]

Right now we got this problem.
Lets say you want to make a character named Batmon, but its already taken. (same server)

My simple fix would be this:
The name Batmon is taken by a orc warrior. You want to name your character like this as Troll hunter.
*name for orc warrior is already taken* you can stil name this character as:
*orc warlock
*orc hunter
*orc DK
*tauren DK
*tauren warrior
*etc....

So when you look at your friend list it would say Batmon troll hunter. And for orc would be name Batmon orc warrior.
This would save blizzard a lot of cash on tickets at least. And best part when making alts, you can use same name wich makes your guild remembering all your alt names easier.
I never understood why you cant use the same name as everyone else in mmo (exept tehnical limitation-wich is just a bad excuse nowdays)

So yeah...seeing some guy making a full raid of characters named goku would look hilarious (all with black or yelloy hair), with orange suit.

[Explicit Teemo Nudes]

Having a unique name was more important back in the days when things weren't cross-realm because if someone with the same name as you got bad reputation, you would probably suffer from that in one way or another.
But no, just get a bit creative and come up with a new name.

I also don't understand how this would save Blizzard money on tickets? Are people making tickets demanding Blizzard to delete characters that have the names they want or what? :s

Of course you had to add some silly anime related shit to the end of the post -.-

[Mormolyce]

I wouldn't mind that.

Personally I think having a surname would be even better though. Which you could optionally hide.

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But no, just get a bit creative and come up with a new name.

I dunno about your server, but seriously anything not ridiculously obscure is taken.

[Serissa]

And when you mail something to someone you have to type "Name-Race-Class-Faction-Server" instead of just "name-server", I'm right? NO THANKS unique name per server is fine. Use your imagination if your favorite name is taken. Since early classic I leveled about 20 characters on different servers and I didn't get "already taken" single time.

And best part when making alts, you can use same name wich makes your guild remembering all your alt names easier.

There's 2 types of "Note" (or how it's called?) in guild roster for a reason.

[Tradu]

Having a unique name was more important back in the days when things weren't cross-realm because if someone with the same name as you got bad reputation, you would probably suffer from that in one way or another.
But no, just get a bit creative and come up with a new name.

I also don't understand how this would save Blizzard money on tickets? Are people making tickets demanding Blizzard to delete characters that have the names they want or what? :s

Of course you had to add some silly anime related shit to the end of the post -.-

Or be uncreative and just call your characters <main name>two, <main name>three etc.

I dunno about your server, but seriously anything not ridiculously obscure is taken.

I play/played on Twisting Nether, one of the biggest EU Horde servers and never had problems coming up with a name. Of course Xxarthasxx, Zzlegolaszz, Bubbleoseven and all the other popular names are taken, but I never had to get super creative.

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I also don't understand how this would save Blizzard money on tickets? Are people making tickets demanding Blizzard to delete characters that have the names they want or what? :s

I've done that, and gotten my name on a full server :3

[Lochton]

I wouldn't mind that.

Personally I think having a surname would be even better though. Which you could optionally hide.

Yes, just yes.

Rather have a surname feature set in that, as you said, you could select to hide.

As well, want a thicker filter on the creation screen for naming. Was really annoyed and confused why someone would called their character, "Hopeyoudie"

[Tradu]

I also don't understand how this would save Blizzard money on tickets? Are people making tickets demanding Blizzard to delete characters that have the names they want or what? :s

Yes, people do make those tickets and they will delete the character(or just flag it for a rename) if it's low level and/or has been inactive for a very long time.

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Yes, just yes.

Rather have a surname feature set in that, as you said, you could select to hide.

As well, want a thicker filter on the creation screen for naming. Was really annoyed and confused why someone would called their character, "Hopeyoudie"

No, please not even more filtering. It's already enough of a pain to randomly get names blocked because they happen to contain something "offensive". If a name is legitimately offensive, just report it and let them deal with it on a case-by-case basis.
Like, the battle pet filter is horrible about that. Why am I allowed to call my floating skull Hamlet but not King Hamlet? That's because "king" is offensive according to the filter.

[Yunru]

Mailbox can be easy fixed by adding extra box (send to yourself).
And yes i know you can type in guild text....but its much easier to remember one name instead of 7 others. (and no need to check every time who the hell new guy is)

Unique name doesnt mean anything nowdays. Too many players on one server.

[Tradu]

Mailbox can be easy fixed by adding extra box (send to yourself).
And yes i know you can type in guild text....but its much easier to remember one name instead of 7 others. (and no need to check every time who the hell new guy is)

Unique name doesnt mean anything nowdays. Too many players on one server.

What about other people who want to send you something? They'd still have to type Xxarthasdkxx-deathknight-human-male-twistingnether

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Personally I think having a surname would be even better though. Which you could optionally hide.

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Basically this^

[Mormolyce]

And when you mail something to someone you have to type "Name-Race-Class-Faction-Server" instead of just "name-server", I'm right? NO THANKS unique name per server is fine. Use your imagination if your favorite name is taken. Since early classic I leveled about 20 characters on different servers and I didn't get "already taken" single time.

I can't remember the last time I typed out an entire name. It almost always autocompletes.

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Last name would fix it, or using the same system that battle.net tags use, allow multiple people to have the exact same name but with a number code added to it to differentiate them. Last name's are cooler though, could let all of my pretty elves be from the same family. =)

[fixx]

I never understood why you cant use the same name as everyone else in mmo (exept tehnical limitation-wich is just a bad excuse nowdays)

It's not as much technical limitation as logical limitation. You need to have unique name for the ingame mail delivery.

Most newer games alleviate this problem by allowing more complex names but even there you can't have two characters with same name in same server.

[Lochton]

No, please not even more filtering. It's already enough of a pain to randomly get names blocked because they happen to contain something "offensive". If a name is legitimately offensive, just report it and let them deal with it on a case-by-case basis.
Like, the battle pet filter is horrible about that. Why am I allowed to call my floating skull Hamlet but not King Hamlet? That's because "king" is offensive according to the filter.

I am talking about obvious offensive names that should be instantly filtered. It's not about people having to report it, it is about having some common sense to not use such.

"Hopeyoudie" is one of them, "Rapist" is another - seen so many that shouldn't get past the creation screen. I mean, as said, it is common sense not to call your characters that.

Of course, I don't see any offensive with King, I don't know why with that and shouldn't really be so.

And to the other main topic, as I noticed by others giving examples of suddenly very long mail names, no thanks even more.

[The Kao]

There's a far more simple fix that has already been implemented and reported working for years:

If the name you desire is taken then it isn't worth rolling in the first place; think of something original and unique instead.

And no, you would not do this for "the others" or your reputation. You're doing it for yourself. Think about it.

[Tradu]

I can't remember the last time I typed out an entire name. It almost always autocompletes.

But... if you want to use the same name, how does autocomplete help? How will it know which of the 20 Mormolyces you want to mail to? Is it Mormolyce-human-hunter-chogall or is it Mormolyce-draenei-priest-chogall? They both start with Mormolyce, so you'd still have to fill out the last bit (random names/classes/servers, any similarity to real characters is unintentional and merely coincidence)

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"Hopeyoudie" is one of them, "Rapist" is another - seen so many that shouldn't get past the creation screen. I mean, as said, it is common sense not to call your characters that.

The problem with that is that they'd have to filter very specific names, because what if somebody wants to call their character Hopeless or Hopeful or Jodie? So they can't just filter "hope" and "die". That'd just end up with a LOT of work for pretty limited benefit. I agree that some names should probably be filtered, I'm just not convinced that making a complete list of every not-okay name is worth the trouble.

[Yunru]

This can be simply fixed as people you recently seen list. (or talked)

[Amerissis]

Right now we got this problem.
Lets say you want to make a character named Batmon, but its already taken. (same server)

So when you look at your friend list it would say Batmon troll hunter. And for orc would be name Batmon orc warrior.
This would save blizzard a lot of cash on tickets at least. And best part when making alts, you can use same name wich makes your guild remembering all your alt names easier.

First of all, there is no problem. It's a minor annoyance if a name is already taken, but not a problem.

Second, how much cash do you think it will save? You assume people make a lot of tickets about freeing up names and that it costs a lot of time to check them and flag accounts. I really doubt that. I've asked for a few names to be released and I got answers in no more then an hour, so I doubt it costs a lot of time. Probably a lot of automation too. So, don't assume this unless you have data to back it up.

Third, a few simple solutions exist for people not remembering your name: Use similar names (Amerissis, Amertanker, Amerhealz, etc.), use guildnotes, don't care about it (people who can't remember your alts are not really worth caring about...).

And on a final note: NO PLEASE NO. It's bad enough that people work around coming up with unique, interesting names by abusing special chars and all, let's not give them another option to NOT be original. No fun in 200 chars named Legolas, zzLegolas, zLegolasz, Legolás, etc.

[Mormolyce]

But... if you want to use the same name, how does autocomplete help? How will it know which of the 20 Mormolyces you want to mail to? Is it Mormolyce-human-hunter-chogall or is it Mormolyce-draenei-priest-chogall? They both start with Mormolyce, so you'd still have to fill out the last bit (random names/classes/servers, any similarity to real characters is unintentional and merely coincidence)

Well they could probably make the autocomplete better so that it dropped down a list of potentials. Wouldn't be a lot.