Get rid of unique names, allow repeat character names

In a game with millions of players, where you need to make a new account for each class, leading to tens of millions of usernames, it doesn't make sense to enforce unique character names anymore.

There can only be one "John" - ever? There can only be one "KittenPaws", ever?! In the entire history of the game, after 8 years and 50 million usernames, there can only ever be one "Jimmy"? Really, GGG?!

C'mon, this isn't 2005 anymore. PoE might've been able to get around this issue due to relatively lower playercount, but with the explosive popularity of Poe2, it's time to allow players to have the names they want.

And before someone asks - just hide the UUID numbers when displaying a name. Someone says something bad in chat? Allow right-clicking the name to bring up the same menu that right-clicking a character does.

+1 to this

Thought this was a little odd too, but to get around it we just used our old clan tag from d2 before our names, just like the good old days. They should definitely rethink this before going live

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Swojo24#0779 wrote:

They should definitely rethink this before going live

I don't think there's going to be a wipe before live, so not sure that would help. Thinking back to PoE1 EA, I don't think they wiped before opening it up for everyone.

I think they do it to try and prevent trade scamming which was very popular in closed beta of POE1

Nobody can scam with unique id that you have here on forum or visible on poe trade. Name#1234 etc. You could use the same character name for every character you like which would only be visible to you. Even in game chat would display your account name and discriminator. Problem solved and name theft problem solved too. I lost my poe 1 main unique account name that I held for 12 years. Well I still do in poe1. F this.

+1

Like really ? I try to create new char and after 30+ min of spamming names still nothing. And I refuse use names like "xxxXXXOriginalNameXXXxxx". Where is immersion with those names ?

I don't want to tell you to do it like ***,.. well other games. But please do ;)

Agreed. Plz come up with a different system, for example showing the name , which can be anything, can be repeated, but also beside it a unique identifier so a player can be uniquely identified.

Immersion and relating to your character is important, and being unable to name it how you like is bad.

yeah this would be great especially as everyone basically has to make a new character every league.

I doubt it'll ever happen though. Unique character names are a good indicator that the character name is being used as some kind of a unique key in their backend database.

Additionally character names are how you invite people, whisper them, etc. They'd basically need to come up with two character names for everyone, the displayed one, and the one used to uniquely identify you.

I think implementing this would not be trivial based on the above, I think it would actually probably be a massive amount of backend work.

Cool thing for them to do if its relatively easy, but if it isn't there are far, far, far more important things they should be spending their time on right now.

Imho it shouldnt be that difficult. A bit of work yes, but fairly straightforward.


And i do think for the full release its actually important, my friend witch whom i play spend 30 minutes trying to come up with a name, and he was pretty annoyed by the end of it. It just raises negative emotions right from the start.