Character names should not be required to be unique

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Esubane#6099 wrote:

At least differentiate leagues.
Mandate unique name ON A TEMP LEAGUE
In standard use these battletags. Very few players play standard so there's little chance to encounter 2 players using the same name anyway.

Right now we have the landfill league (standard) reserve a fuck ton of character names. Nobody logs to these characters anymore, they have been tossed away in there years ago and that's it. But the name is locked. That's BS.

As a player since launch in PoE 1, I always played new leagues. And I would agree many players did not play standard very often. However, I have looked back on my experience with the game and recognized there are quite a few leagues where the league mechanics I did not engage in.

Therefore, I feel like I will be playing in Standard quite a bit more except in certain league's where certain items I will want to farm for the perfect rolled ones.

The reason I feel this way is because I know I have at least 5 + witches that are level 100 in standard. All my charcter slots are full and every league I have to delete several. Instead of wasting my time in a league I could be playing one of my geared characters or regearing a rebalanced class as currency has no shortage if you play properly. Not to mention every 3-4 months Standard is flooded with items for at least 3-7 days. And you can buy whatever it is you missed out on if anything.

Since Character resets for passives are given out often in PoE 1 I would hope for the same in PoE 2 if they rebalance after Standard is in.

As far as names go if you picked one that is your and if you delete or rename your character it is available again.

I do think if you allowed multiple of the same name it would be easy to ruin someone's reputation fast. This mainly would apply to streamers.

I did not know this was still going to be a thing when I purchased the early access pack..

It has now been refunded...

I just remembered why I stopped playing PoE 1, it was because I got fed up with spending half an hour trying to find a name that isn’t taken until I eventually got fed up and play a different game.

My online handle is my identity, I use it in every game I play except this one. It's the only thing I hate about this game.

This naming system is incredibly stupid.

How has the devs not realized that this isnt early 2000 anymore and there will be people wanting to use a logical sounding name and not 2001Sv3n20202 names like we all had to pick when we were 12 back in early gaming days because of a arbitrary limitation that was solved close to a decade ago with the #ID system.

+1 to all this.

With POE2 gathering a larger audience, we're going to need a larger name space. Even better, a way to have any name we want. Especially now that we have unique identifiers for accounts.

I know D4 bad but this is one thing they got right.

There is a resource for name generators on the forum, here:

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/70376

I hope this provides some help for those in search of good, unique character names. =^[.]^=