Hi, I’m making this post since I would like to see the feature of being able to rename my wow accounts from the normal “WOW#” (e.g. WOW1) variety. There has been previous posts about this on the forum, e.g. WoW Account Deletion & Renaming. However that topic has since been closed and I still think this is an issue that should be addressed.
This is currently not supported as stated by https://eu.battle.net/support/en/article/11143. So this is a feature request to have this opportunity, and to show that there are still people who care about this feature.
I’m not talking about character names, but account names. If you have multiple accounts they will show up as WOW1 WOW2 and so on. I want to be able to name my wow accounts in order to sort out quickly what characters I have in that account.
In the old days you could name your accounts, those are still named, however that is no longer possible, so new accounts will have a predefined name that I can’t relate to.
Agree. I’d love to be able to rename my main account, the name is something from my early teens shudder I’m grateful we can at least change our bnet names.
Given that Blizzard are content with spending time doing trivial fixes, I see no issue with them introducing this as a quality-of-life improvement.
Do I think it’s something they should be investing time and money into when the game is in the current state that it’s in? No. However, I don’t see an issue with the OP’s request.
I know it’s on me to organize my characters, and that is essentially what I’m asking for, a way to label my accounts for what characters I have. The post I linked in my OP does contain some other reasons for this feature.
All in all I’m not saying that this is something vital, it is a quality of life improvement as some people have mentioned, however depending on how things are implemented in their back end this may be a low cost change.
So for some kind of organisational purpose but account names are super short (even if they were brought back), how could you have anything meaningful in there?
I sometimes get confused and have on some occasions almost performed an action on my WoW1, while my main is WoW2. This naming is not helpful. It’s like coding and naming your variables “a”, “b”… etc.
I would like to rename it for myself, not for others. It’s not a big issue by any means, but it would be nice having the option and I see no reason why it should’t exist.
Indeed, I’d like to have “Main” and “Alt” just so I don’t get confused and as mentioned before, to rid myself of cringe. Grinds my gears that on Steam for example I can rename my username but not my account, stuck forever as some cringe teenage word. Uuugh.
It could be a rename every 6 months or something.
Just because something is little and unlikely to happen doesn’t mean people can’t suggest and want little things.
In my case it wouldn’t even be alt. WoW1 is simply a remnant of when I first tried the trial years ago and when I upgraded, instead of WoW1 becoming the full version, it created WoW2, so my WoW1 is essentially a completely useless “account”.