The gold name is not a default. You have to go into your control panel and choose to have a gold name.
EDIT: See this post for instructions.
@Roderick
Well, like I said, I don't care about having the Gold Name. However, the Gold Name is now supposed to be a default. Per this:
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So I am presuming something is wrong. If not, no biggie, but if there is a malfunction, I would want to bring it to the attention of the right folks.
"How do you know you are on the side of good?" a Paragon citizen asked him. "How can we even know what is 'good'?"
"The Most High has spoken, even with His own blood," Melancton replied. "Surely we know."
If you don't care (and don't want it), then why bother? My name isn't gold either, and I haven't touched it, but that's the way I like it.
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"By default" does not mean that all VIPs will be gold-named. It means that when a new account is created, it will default to gold, as opposed to defaulting to white.
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Originally Posted by Melancton
This maintenance will set VIP players' forum names to gold by default
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@Roderick
It is sort of like if I saw a problem with in an AT I don't play: if there is a problem brewing there, it might affect things overall and cause a crash.
That is my only motivation. If my name goes gold, okay, but I am not going to expend any effort to change it to gold.
"How do you know you are on the side of good?" a Paragon citizen asked him. "How can we even know what is 'good'?"
"The Most High has spoken, even with His own blood," Melancton replied. "Surely we know."
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It may very well only apply to new accounts "by default" as you say. In that case, problem averted. |
Originally Posted by Roderick
"By default" does not mean that all VIPs will be gold-named. It means that when a new account is created, it will default to gold, as opposed to defaulting to white.
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"How do you know you are on the side of good?" a Paragon citizen asked him. "How can we even know what is 'good'?"
"The Most High has spoken, even with His own blood," Melancton replied. "Surely we know."
Well, that is the very definition of "default". Changing defaults doesn't (or shouldn't) change existing settings, only new ones.
@Roderick
As I understand it, one of the purposes of the last forum maintenance was to make Gold Names the norm for VIPs as a default.
I am a VIP. My subscription has never lapsed since 2005. My name is not Gold.
From the standpoint of being cool or whatever, I do not care if my name is Gold. I never did anything to make my name Gold when VIPs were first able to do it, and I have taken no action since.
My thought is that if my name is supposed to be Gold and it is not, something has gone wrong, and the Devs ought to be aware of it, lest this indicate that something even worse may happen down the road.
I try to avoid anything more exciting than /petition in-game. The NCSoft website is not user-friendly, and resubbing each year is a nightmare. But I am willing to bring this to the Devs' attention if there is a reasonably easy way to go about it. Any helpful pointers?
"How do you know you are on the side of good?" a Paragon citizen asked him. "How can we even know what is 'good'?"
"The Most High has spoken, even with His own blood," Melancton replied. "Surely we know."