Why, hello there, fellow forum users. Today, I bring you a very serious topic that requires the utmost attention. When Shadowlands launches, character gender changing will be moved to the barber shops because it was “sending the wrong message”. If this is the case, then why isn’t the same thing being done for name change? People who go through gender changes usually don’t keep the same name.
So, Blizzard… What’s it going to be? You wouldn’t want to “send the wrong message” over this as well, would you?
Well, of course… Dear, good, old Blizzard didn’t do this solely to be in a certain crowds good graces, did they? If they truly care and support the cause, this is the next logical step
It is interesting and I would actually want that as well It could give some problems though… AH seller ID and raiderio/warcraftlogs use realm+charactername to track the character… and if everybody can change it often the data will get messed up…
Easily fixed by having it on a long cooldown, let’s say a couple months, and by implementing a system similar to Steam’s; where you go to someones profile and next to their name there’s a dropdown that reads “This user has also played as:”.
The long cooldown could work yes the other system would be helpful, but data would still be very difficult to work with… if 500 on my server had had the name salainne during the past 3 mounts, I would not be able to use that data for anything really
Is that common, though? Only people who I’ve seen with similar names are all the boring Illidan variations Demon Hunter players picked in the beginning of Legion
I don’t know Just read another thread about someone with a good raiderio score who where not good at the dungeons and got the acheivements for doing it… as in, that character had never been there before… It could be because of name changing, but cannot be sure ofcause. A long cooldown would fix that though
Changing your gender Doesnt change Players knowledge of you.
Changing your name does.
a Player can be a Toxic player and go so far as to be hated and simply change your name Removing the concequences of your actions in the community.
making it free would be a 1 second Redemption for every player with a Bad name. When people ragequit groups and more we write ur character name. so we know for future not to invite you. and compile a List of players thjat we personally black list from playing with.
your name change would defeat this immediately and make it REALLY hard for players to recognise your name for good and bad reasons.
