User ID changes should not be unlimited with no restrictions

AbbieGoth

As the title says, I have recently become very opposed to the idea that any player can go in and change their UserID whenever they want, how many times they want, with no consequence. I can understand the first change being free, but this? This is too much, and let me explain why.

I'm a high-ranking officer in a PvE guild. About a month ago, we had a very crude player making very inappropriate comments in our guild's Discord chat. After discussing this with the other officers and the GM, they were banned from the guild and kicked from the Discord. Simple enough.

Fast forward to last week... And I find out that this player had managed to get back into the guild. By time I made the connection, they had already changed their UserID since joining only a few days beforehand. Once I finally found out what the player's new ID was, I made a note to myself, left a comment for the other officers to discuss, and went to bed. (It was early morning, nobody else was online. Hooray for night shift schedules!) 12 hours later, I log in and find out that they had changed UserIDs *again,* but thankfully they already left the guild.

(Please understand that due to privacy I will not be sharing how I managed to find out who said player is or how they got back into the guild under my nose.)

This really, *really* shouldn't be a problem in the first place. Being able to have unlimited UserID changes makes keeping track of banned/blacklisted players for guilds more of a hassle than it should be for these very reasons. At the very least, if they're going to stay unlimited, then either make it cost money, or put a timer on it. Having the ability to change your ID every few hours is not acceptable.

brandonv516

Didn't catch if you are on console or not but if so, Xbox gamertag changes are out of ZoS' control.

Edit: There should be a 7 day cool down on changes like this.

BrightOblivion

If you put them on your ignore list with a note mentioning the reason, won't that stay there no matter what they change their name to? So just use that?

AbbieGoth

BrightOblivion wrote: »

If you put them on your ignore list with a note mentioning the reason, won't that stay there no matter what they change their name to? So just use that?

Yes, it does help, but when not all the other players capable of recruiting have this user on their own list, it's entirely possible for them to sneak back in and when you have over 200-300 members, keeping track of everybody gets difficult. The only way you'd really be able to find them is if you regularly go through your members list - which isn't something you should have to do in the first place.

AbbieGoth

brandonv516 wrote: »

Didn't catch if you are on console or not but if so, Xbox gamertag changes are out of ZoS' control.

Edit: There should be a 7 day cool down on changes like this.

I am talking about PC UserID changes.

BrightOblivion

I mean, I admit that it's problematic, but your proposals seem like using a flamethrower when a pair of hedgeclippers would suffice. It would also create problems for the person who is being harrassed and is changing their name to get away from it. With your solutions, he'd either have to wait a time period or pay actual money to do that. The potential harm that causes outweighs the convenience to me.

Ideally, ZOS could create a sort of ban list that all recruiters could have access to, that'd list people who aren't allowed in the guild regardless of what they change their names to. Heck, even Runescape has that.

I'd just rather a solution that gave more utility to the guild, rather than more burden on the players.

Runschei

This thread reminded me to change my user ID. oops

EvilCroc

Player convinience is in priority over "high rank guild officers" convinience. As it should be.

Mureel

AbbieGoth wrote: »

As the title says, I have recently become very opposed to the idea that any player can go in and change their UserID whenever they want, how many times they want, with no consequence. I can understand the first change being free, but this? This is too much, and let me explain why.

I'm a high-ranking officer in a PvE guild. About a month ago, we had a very crude player making very inappropriate comments in our guild's Discord chat. After discussing this with the other officers and the GM, they were banned from the guild and kicked from the Discord. Simple enough.

Fast forward to last week... And I find out that this player had managed to get back into the guild. By time I made the connection, they had already changed their UserID since joining only a few days beforehand. Once I finally found out what the player's new ID was, I made a note to myself, left a comment for the other officers to discuss, and went to bed. (It was early morning, nobody else was online. Hooray for night shift schedules!) 12 hours later, I log in and find out that they had changed UserIDs *again,* but thankfully they already left the guild.

(Please understand that due to privacy I will not be sharing how I managed to find out who said player is or how they got back into the guild under my nose.)

This really, *really* shouldn't be a problem in the first place. Being able to have unlimited UserID changes makes keeping track of banned/blacklisted players for guilds more of a hassle than it should be for these very reasons. At the very least, if they're going to stay unlimited, then either make it cost money, or put a timer on it. Having the ability to change your ID every few hours is not acceptable.

Disagree. Report them to ZOS. I don't want my rights infringed upon due to someone else's BS. Also, did they pay EVERY TIME to change all their character names? Because that should be FIRST CLUE if you ask me.Finally, if you block someone with one user name, they stay blocked when they change. Had a stalkerish dude who tried to name change - fail.