Free the names!

If you believe that, you should be kicked repeatedly in sensitive areas by people wearing steel-toed and/or spiked footwear.

Just sayin'.

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I fully agree with MB. I pay for my account, not per character. Whether I've logged into "Captain 500 Days" in 2 years or since 2004, makes no difference.

I repeat that the footwear should be steel-toed and/or spiked at a minimum. I won't restrict it to sensitive areas. Anywhere a kick can land to do as much damage to the future of your bloodline will do nicely.

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Because anyone will be able to have any name? Soon™?

Global handles attached to avatar names?

That's what I fear, too. I really hate the idea, as others have stated, because it's just friggin' clunky-looking.

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No it's not. I once was away from the game for a little over 16 months. Last fall I couldn't play due to health reasons. This fall I won't be able to play due to work-related reasons and because I'll be on another continent. I'm not going to pay to keep my sub active, but if my experience is any indicator, then I'll be back. This is my all-time favorite game, after all. If you want a closer analogy, then go with second home. A lake cabin or vacation house, maybe. Just because it's sitting idle without anyone in it for 4 to 6 months of the year doesn't give you the right to come in and start taking my stuff. Same goes here. This is my vacation house from reality. Stop trying to take my ****.

I think it's perfectly valid to strip trial account names. When I had a second trial account just to see the differences between that and a regular account, I deleted all of those characters so the names wouldn't be locked up. Most people don't do that. And although it's a less-desirable solution, I'm not opposed to appending global names to game names, so long as we don't have to see those added names. So if you want to make Ironik (@Emberly), go right ahead. But don't go agitating to steal "Ironik" from me.

Does this mean that when you log onto Liberty you *will* be able to discuss it?

This makes me very very scared I would much rather deal with no names, then too many of certain names.

Now you finally get how the rest of us feel about you wanting to steal our names. It's not pleasant, is it? But at least this way we can all have the name we want.

Personally, I say leave it as it is. If you want a good name, think harder.

Yes, it is. Just because you don't want it to be doesn't make it thus. You're ceasing payment for a service; why should the service provider be obligated to do anything whatsoever for you? The fact that they do hold names is nice, but it would be nicer for the people that actually pay for a sub if they released names held by people who didn't pay for a sub.
You're really convinced this is about you, huh? Nobody is trying to steal any particular name or names, and certainly not yours. The argument is that noncustomers, regardless of their reason for not being customers any longer, shouldn't be allowed to squat on names. Get over yourself. Besides, as noted upthread, the devs have a reason to not run the script, so I imagine they have something good up their sleeve.

Umm not exactly, you're subscribing to the game. Unless you are one of the people who hasn't logged on in years, I don't want *your* names.

I agree, there's better ways to handle that than making everyone's character name look like an e-mail address.

Nevertheless I support the idea of making something other than character names unique, be it an account iD or somesuch, because I've seen it done in ways that were non-invasive and yet still effective in telling people apart.

Bwahahaha!

Ironik isn't talking about losing names while he account is active. he's talking about the times his account was inactive.

That being said, a company can't be expected to make decisions based on the possibility that unusual circumstances may happen to some of their customers.

The average player isn't going to be hospitalized for over a year on a regular basis.

The average player isn't going to be out of the country for over a year on a regular basis. (And I'm saying that as a Veteran who knows first hand about deployments. We aren't the majority of customers)

Besides it's just as likely that people who are working and get sent out of the country or are away from the game for extended periods of time will simply keep letting their monthly fees get paid on their CC so they keep earning Vet Rewards that way when they get back they get a lot of new goodies to play with.

Some people can't admit to themselves that the only "problem" with unique names lies between their keyboard and the chair they are sitting in and the devs can't fix that. The rest of us have no trouble coming up with new original names.

Well, I haven't, either. Just to be clear on that. I've run afoul of taken names in the process of creating characters, but I've never failed at coming up with a good, unique name for them that wasn't taken.

My advocating a solution to this problem does not mean that I'm one of the people complaining that all the good names have been taken.

Rather, it's like this for me: If we're going to have to do something about taken names to appease those who want certain names but can't get them, I would rather it be in what information is considered "unique" and how that is presented, rather than putting the names of existing characters up for grabs after a certain period of time.

I, like Ironik, really do not like the idea of name wipes just to free up the "good names."

I wonder if the complaints about not getting names is less noticeable the the complaints about extended maintenance windows.

The maintenance downtime complaints are more noticable and more frequent simply because more people are affected by the regularly scheduled server downtime than there are people that think all the "good names" have been taken.

I mean there's at least 100 people living in Australia that play CoH.

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And that's the only valid reason for allowing characters to have non-unique names.