Please, no more globally unique names

[Kektimus]

In PoE 1, character names were globally unique. They were also occasionally pruned from characters that weren't played in a while. When creating a new character, you could be almost certain that your first 25 attempts (for anything other than possibly xXXPillowHumpoTronXXx) would be already taken.

This has been a real hurdle for when trying to get back into the game. "Ah I don't know. I want to try this again. Let's create a character... *20 minutes later* ARRGGHH" and by then my patience will already have been shot into pieces. I want a good looking name that fits, but I'm forced into some leetspeek hax crap.

Let names be account unique. Other games do this without problem. Where the name is shown in-game, have it simply show as is, add an account prefix wherever precision might be needed (such as when hovering, inspecting, in chat, when adding friends or reporting or whatever). This is "Nera"! (aka Gurka:Nera) or whatever.

Pretty please.

[Starcleaver]

Man, I would totally agree with this. I haven't played PoE in quite a while, and in my growing interest for PoE2 I thought I'd play a little bit of the original. Went to make a new character, and after about 20 tries for names, decided that I simply did not want to play that much.

Allowing spaces in the name, so that you can choose first and last names, or having a "First Name" and "Last Name" field together, or ANYthing to alleviate that name pain would be very nice.

[sagemakaiser]

They can do what Blizzard did. Any name you want, but a number is attached at the end. Smith#1, Smith#99999. Not a fan of the first, last name system. Most players revert to only memorizing, recognizing the last name.

[Kektimus]

Lol: https://imgur.com/a/RZ8lZd7

Ever since the whole "loot tension" spectacle back in the day it sadly wouldn't surprise me if this was another backwards hill they'd die on.

[Licher.Rus]

Originally posted by Kektimus:

In PoE 1, character names were globally unique. They were also occasionally pruned from characters that weren't played in a while. When creating a new character, you could be almost certain that your first 25 attempts (for anything other than possibly xXXPillowHumpoTronXXx) would be already taken.

This has been a real hurdle for when trying to get back into the game. "Ah I don't know. I want to try this again. Let's create a character... *20 minutes later* ARRGGHH" and by then my patience will already have been shot into pieces. I want a good looking name that fits, but I'm forced into some leetspeek hax crap.

Let names be account unique. Other games do this without problem. Where the name is shown in-game, have it simply show as is, add an account prefix wherever precision might be needed (such as when hovering, inspecting, in chat, when adding friends or reporting or whatever). This is "Nera"! (aka Gurka:Nera) or whatever.

Pretty please. :ftired:

why can't you create a names like I doing all the time:
Licher_Whatever_Amime_Hero_U_Like
Licher_Another_Amime_Hero_U_Like
etc
?

[Kektimus]

Because it looks atrocious, tbh

[Legendairy2]

Ive uninstalled many game for ridiculous things like this. If I cant name MY character what I want, I am out

[SavageWhiteDude]

xXXPillowHumpoTronXXx better not end up taken because of you, it took me months to come up with that name.

[Astral Projection]

Yeah global unique in-game is trivial to code around. Just make an account name and a character. Very easy.

[Freya Crescent]

I usually just use one of my usual names +_<The current league/season> or describe the build I'm using on said character...

You end up with 20+ of the blooming things, so you need to have SOME way to tell them apart if you wanna go in and gut them later in Standard.

[Manuel]

is POE2 AVAILABLE?
I NEED START POE1?
POE2 IS INSIDE POE1?

[thawn4444]

if you are not using a current meme or obscure pop culture reference name you are doing it wrong.

[Siameasy]

case in point... league start needed to create a mule to get ele prolif gem for my main char so just named him by mashing keys like fhjgfdshjgsfd and lol'ed when it said name is already taken.

[giguy2002]

Originally posted by SavageWhiteDude:

xXXPillowHumpoTronXXx better not end up taken because of you, it took me months to come up with that name.

Good thing I paid large sums of money to one of the chosen few to create an account ]xXXPillowHumpoTronCloneXXx

[gabriele83]

Originally posted by giguy2002:

Originally posted by SavageWhiteDude:

xXXPillowHumpoTronXXx better not end up taken because of you, it took me months to come up with that name.

Good thing I paid large sums of money to one of the chosen few to create an account ]xXXPillowHumpoTronCloneXXx

Great, now my dream to name my character xXXPillowHumpoTronXXx is completely destroyed

[Hanariel]

YES please! A lot of games have ways around this, POE2 should as well.