Unused name suggestion

From this thread it seems the solution is to call CS and complain more that names are not available, then they think that returning customers would call and complain that their character's name is missing.

You can always hope, but most likely, those names will never see the light of day again.

Finding a creative name/theme/concept that isn't taken is part of the thrill of making characters for me.

I've long been in the "free up the names, if CoV/Going Rogue and 20+ issues of content weren't enough to entice them back it's probably because they're never coming back" camp. And yes, I've made the "keeping your thousands of paying customers happy should probably trump the off-chance that six or seven people tops might come back after five years of inactivity" argument, too. I still believe it, but at this point, it's pretty much a lost cause. The devs weren't willing to do it more than twice when the game was subscription-only. Now that it's free? It's just not happening, period.

The really sad thing to me is that, with the game now free, what they're probably seeing isn't old players returning in droves so much as new players signing up for the first time. And those new players' very first experience with the game is going to be being forced to settle on their twenty-fifth random stab at a name they sort of like okay, because the first two-dozen names they tried, including all the ones they really wanted, were unavailable. A lot of people are going to have been frustrated for twenty minutes before they ever load up Galaxy City for the first time. Not the way to attract new customers.

But yeah, dead horse. Beating it isn't going to do any good, even if giving it a nice hard kick every once in a while when someone else drags it out does make me feel a little better.

I wonder if there'd be a way to make "name purge tokens" available on the Paragon Market? Making it a direct money-maker instead of a hypothetical one might open up the possibility a little.

Sorry OP cant agree with you. I have taken long breaks myself, I know some who have recently returned after being gone since the great ED population drop off.

I myself do sit on any good name I come up with to be safe. Usually lore based names( virtue forever) or some very concept specific one.

Maybe if you mention what name your after someone here can help you out. there are no few stories floating around about forgotton account info and people just starting up new accounts rather then worry over the old one. Those alone are probably the only true case of lost names that might annoy newer players.

However saying there are no good names is also abit extreme. Many good lore based name sources exist. I run several, always do a report on myself to get a discussion started with an admin so I can be sure the name wont be genericed in a few days just as I am getting into the character.

Saying that and the above that I am sitting on a few good concept lore names I already made sure are safe to use on virtue, maybe describe the character concept your working on developing and power sets etc and we can brain storm some possible ideas for you.