Last names

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Hi!

I’m sure this has been brought up several times before, but how come we still don’t have the option to set a last name for our characters? It would help get rid of all the special, accented character names, like Áarwén or Còólgûy and the like. Plus it would create the opportunity for some extra flavour and RP for our characters. Would it require so much extra resources to have this? I mean if GW2 and ESO has this option, why can’t we?

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because those games had that option from the beginning so does ffxiv .wow doesnot have that option .

yes .it is not that easy as flipping a switch to on the light.

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ALTER TABLE Characters
ADD COLUMN second_name VARCHAR(12);

And then just update the client to have the second name property everywhere

Done :dracthyr_hehe_animated:

Blizzard, pay me.

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Eey, man!
Don’t diss Còólgûy now!
He’s a pretty cool guy once you get to know him.

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As weird as it may sound, it’s entirely possible that Blizzard hasn’t yet found a way to fit that in the database. The character name is saved in a specific table with a possibly hardcoded limit that could render the entire game unplayable (ie. not load at all) if its design was changed. It’s quite possibly for the same reason why the main bag is hardcoded to 20 items (it initially was 16 items and then a keyring) and cannot be changed.

If it was that easy, wouldn’t they have done it already? :stuck_out_tongue:

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No, because clearly they forgot to add the ROI for this feature request, so the product manager couldn’t compare that to the 90 euro brutosaurus mount and decide whether this was a worthy spending of developer resources.

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Well yes and no.

It would also be incredibly easy to throw high elves on the table for example.
Just copy blood elves and change the label.
Or just give the option to choose a label to represent wich elves tribe you want to be.

Sadly the how easy something is to do is irrelevant for blizz or we would have many cool and fun things

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My argument is: Adding surname is something that we have been requesting since Vanilla. It sounds as a very easy task, it’s just an additional text field. It sounds so very trivial to us to add a short text when Blizzard can add entire flexible databases to our accounts. And yet they haven’t done it, alongside not also increasing the name field to more than 12 characters.

That’s why I believe that it is not something easy or even of moderate difficulty, but something gamebreaking. It might even not be related to where the data will be stored, but how it will catastrophically affect every other system that their GMs may have access to and we don’t (for example chat logs). Maybe they can’t find a way to allow 2 characters with same name and different surname, since the current name field is entirely unique across the region (there cannot be any other Exiasee-Eonar even with different surname).

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Not worth it. DB and coding template issue along with updating every single dialogue, quest, greeting, whatever, etc etc etc.

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No need to update previous dialogues, etc, they could just use playername, like now, the surname would be an additional variable I guess. Dunno, not a programmer:)

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I found it really annoying to have to specify a surname in FF14.

I’d be OK with surnames if they:

  • would not be required to specify.
  • could be hidden completely on other players, similarly to how one can hide titles and guild tags.
  • would not be part of the unique-name-per-realm check, so others can’t try to run around with my name.
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Yes, it should not be mandatory, or else there would be lots of characters with last names like Aaa, Asd, etc.
Wait, you can hide titles in wow? o_O
And yes, obviously, the combination of the two names should be unique per realm, so there could be several XY Cortez, or Steve XY, but only one Steve Cortez :slight_smile:

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No, not done.

  • Add client variable to allow hiding second name.
  • Update options menu for this.
  • Implement client to show second names:
    • Names rendered above player heads.
    • Character panels.
    • Player mouseover tooltips.
  • Update name reporting client to include second name.
  • Update name reporting back-end automated checks to consider second name on its own and in combination with first name.
  • Update terms of service.
  • Add second names to existing NPCs?
  • Discuss new writing style to account for second names. E.g. some NPCs would now need to addressed as Mr. Secondname.
    • Would old texts also need to get updated for consistency’s sake?

And probably a lot more.

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That wasn’t in the original ticket sir !

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Bruh how you reply so fast?! :joy:

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Yes. Not sure if the default options menu exposes this, but I’m quite sure the Advanced Interface Options addon does. Or maybe it’s something ElvUI offers?

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Professional Forum 'Pera

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Remember when they were scared to do anything to the default backpack becasue it was so deeply coded into the game that they didn’t know what could happen if they changed something?

Same thing here. It’s possible they have looked into it and it just too damn hard.

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The top option is ‘no title’

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I meant for other players. With addons, sure, but it’s not in the basic options.