It has always annoyed me, and just the other night we were talking about it in vent. We were talking about all those names we find stupid, and annoying in Cataclysm, and other MMORPG's. What kind of names are stupid, and annoying?
The first annoying type of name are those who use all these crazy characters in their names. Do they realize they probably miss out on alot of invites, and other game related stuff? No one knows how to send a player a tell if their name has two dots over the U, or a squiggly above the A, or one dot above the E. All you end up doing is setting yourself up to playing the game by yourself, and wondering why no one responds to your region chat. I refuse to type ALT-153 to make your special character.
The second annoying type of name are those players who misspell their names, but close enough to what they want their name to be. Do you really think you are that important that if you transfer servers, or start a game four years after launch that if Legolas isn't available to you have to resort to making it Legohlas, Leggolas,Laygolas, or whatever. It definitely screams one thing to me, and that you are an idiot.
The third annoying type of name are those players who put prefix, and suffixes on their name. If Photar is taken than you try to be creative with XphotarX, XxphotarxX, or something equally stupid, and annoying.
You make a name for yourself by being a great player, and leader. Why would you want to steal someone elses name? In the real world everyone has the same names. You don't see me running to the courthouse, and changing my name to XxBrianxX because there are 2034 other Brian's in the city of Beaverton, Oregon.
A character name is just a character name. I create new ones every game I play. Do you really think someone cares that I have used the name Wasdstomp since 1998 in EQ? No they don't, and that is why I always choose a new name. It is actually fun to make new names. It would be so boring to play the same character name in every game I play.
The first annoying type of name are those who use all these crazy characters in their names. Do they realize they probably miss out on alot of invites, and other game related stuff? No one knows how to send a player a tell if their name has two dots over the U, or a squiggly above the A, or one dot above the E. All you end up doing is setting yourself up to playing the game by yourself, and wondering why no one responds to your region chat. I refuse to type ALT-153 to make your special character.
The second annoying type of name are those players who misspell their names, but close enough to what they want their name to be. Do you really think you are that important that if you transfer servers, or start a game four years after launch that if Legolas isn't available to you have to resort to making it Legohlas, Leggolas,Laygolas, or whatever. It definitely screams one thing to me, and that you are an idiot.
The third annoying type of name are those players who put prefix, and suffixes on their name. If Photar is taken than you try to be creative with XphotarX, XxphotarxX, or something equally stupid, and annoying.
You make a name for yourself by being a great player, and leader. Why would you want to steal someone elses name? In the real world everyone has the same names. You don't see me running to the courthouse, and changing my name to XxBrianxX because there are 2034 other Brian's in the city of Beaverton, Oregon.
A character name is just a character name. I create new ones every game I play. Do you really think someone cares that I have used the name Wasdstomp since 1998 in EQ? No they don't, and that is why I always choose a new name. It is actually fun to make new names. It would be so boring to play the same character name in every game I play.
