How did you choose your forum/account name?

GabiAlex

My real first and middle name because I hate being called by nicknames. I played before under nicknames, but it didn't feel right to be called anything else than my real name, especially when we end up meeting in real life. My flatmate become friend with other PUBG players from our city, they call each other by their discord name, when I meet them, they introduced themselves with their real names. Was a bit strange because I was calling them by their real names, while they called each other by their Discord name because is how they were used to.

I have nothing against using nicknames, privacy is important, especially on the internet, is just my preference to be called by my real name. I'm glad that in ESO you can use your account name in chat, this way I'm finally detached from my characters and also there is less confusion, like in other game where we had a guild meeting and I was suggesting something, but no one knew that the one that was talking was me, an officer on a less known character, even that everyone agreed on my suggestion.

lakaisl

I just stole it from some dude like 15-16 years ago .

Man, Star Wars Jedi Knight was awesome back then.

P.S.
The l's arent't part of the name....

-> AkaiS

Aurielle

My main when I played on PC was named Aurielle Oranius (being a reference, of course, to Auri-El). She was... a magicka Imperial DK. Yeah, I didn’t know WTF I was doing. When I moved to PS4 on my first account, my main was a Breton Templar named Aurielle Lafleur. I started a second PS4 account, which has been my main account for about a year now, as I didn’t like the first PS4 account name I’d selected in a hurry and was dealing with harassment in another game besides. None of my current characters are named Aurielle, which was not really intended. I’ve thought about doing a name change on one of them for consistency’s sake, but it seems like a waste of Crowns when they all have perfectly cromulent names.

Hokiewa

Long standing nickname. But my gamertag pfft, I was drunk and mistyped.....

dpr999

I just made something up that I thought sounded cool and hoped nobody else had.

rhapsodious

My handles tend to be musical names and some punks keep beating me to Rhapsody, so rhapsodious it is.

Clansman2013

Being Scottish, I've always ended up using Clansman in some form. Unfortunately, a lot of people seem to think I'm a "Klan" supporter, which Is a little different...

Shadowmaster

planned and plotted it during Psijic beta and then logged into the game in the first 30 seconds to snatch the coveted account name

Alpheu5

When I was first making a Minecraft account, "Alpheus" was already taken, so I just deadmau5 it up whenever I can't use the original.

Bowser

Sha Na Na, obviously!

randomkeyhits

Its my play style

Valor

I'm usually stuck with some form of Drachesoul as a name, but when ESO was in beta i really wanted my forum name to be Valor and was lucky enough to snag it.

briggscreek

When my husband and I first got together forever ago, we camped nearly every weekend at a very remote campground along Briggs Creek. That was our favorite spot for years until the surrounding area burned down. I use it as my username for pretty much everything.

zaria

Think Zaria dates back to Morrowind, waned an cool name for an bosmer, however it might even be daggerfall.
Should be on some drive, P: or something.
Main sorcerer however is Zariba who is more Khajiit, second was Zaria, to secure name, recreated as templar and main healer

Saphayla

I simply thought "I need a new name" and looked up some "guides" on how to create nicknames. The first part, Saph, comes from the gem Sapphire, and "ayla" is just there to make it sound feminine.

Of course, about a year later I found out that there is a character with the exact same name (a character I've seen before I created the name, actually), but because I remember well the process of creating it, I'm certain that I didn't plagiarize it.

Elsonso

The forum account name of "lordrichter" dates back to when I used to play AD&D. It was also at a time when I was learning German. Meant "Lord Judge". I had to come up with a name that met a very specific set of criteria based on a pre-determined archetype.

My primary game account name is different. It is an established name across a whole lot of games and platforms, and that is the name I would normally use. I used "lordrichter" for the forum because I didn't expect that I would be using the forum and I didn't care what my forum name was. We can see how that turned out. By the time I found out I could rename my forum account, I had already established this account name and decided not to change it.

When I created my second game account, I discovered that someone was using "lordrichter" as a game account name. I often wonder if they still play the game.

The_Smilemeister

Originally it was my gamertag but after a while I had it changed to one of the nicknames derived from my gamertag.

When I first started online gaming it was on my Xbox 360 and I was given the name "OpponentSmile66" as default when setting up an Xbox Live account. The months leading up to me getting a PS4 I hadn't thought of a different name so I decided to keep it when setting up my PSN account for the sake of recognition for my friends migrating over to PlayStation.

After playing ESO for a little while and becoming a master of self-deprecating comedy I came up with "Opponenator" and "The Smilemeister". I preferred the latter of the two and so I've used it to refer to myself both on the forums and in game ('cause ya know, it's not like the ability to change one's name is a useful feature to have on an online service *cough* Sony *cough*). After a while it just seemed necessary to change my forum name to The Smilemeister too.

FakeFox

A long time ago I was cool kid that was just starting to learn English...

kargen27

Long long ago playing Tradewars on BBSs I usually played a good character and used the name Spaceman Spiff. I decided one game to play an evil character and Spaceman Spiff didn't sound evil. I decided I would use the name Kurgan from the Highlander movie. Unfortunately I was drunk at the time and have never been good at spelling so I ended up with kargen. I try to use the name kargen whenever I can in games. Sometimes kargen is taken so I throw on the 27 for account or user names.
Usually I will create a character named Cairgen to go along with the kargen user name.

Minno

Double post

Minno

Altough pubilus calls me Commander Little Fish in zone and I am oddly born under the pisces sign, I'm actually named after a song from my favorite album.

https://youtu.be/Of4FIa__jp4
Minno
"If you hear this I hope it eases
Some troubles you left with
And I'm not sure what to say but I think I would
Would've known that last day

You said, you had
The goals to come out on top to set you up
To live untouched
By all the things that kept you from keeping up

Then we heard and we hurt and we scorned
We burned for last words now lost

The silence we sat through
The breakthroughs, the laughter
The shelter and the future
You planned on, I'll miss them

I hope you're in a better place
With soul set free
I hope you're still singing loud
With soul set free
Too bad you're not around
For us to see but I still feel you around
Like you never left us "

Side info:
the artist for the album art eventually would work on the first Bioshock game as an artist. Same for guitar hero. Sinc is his handle if you care about that.
http://www.sincspace.com/

Korah_Eaglecry

Was going to originally be my first characters name. Eventually went with Korith for the character but by then Korah was already the forum username.

Glenmorils

Since I started immersing myself in TES with Skyrim years ago, I loved the witch covens and hagravens. I'm a fan of witchcraft in almost all media, so I was super interested and super happy when I saw that ESO expanded on their role with the Beldama and Glenmoril Wyrds. I also just think the name sounds cool and mystical haha, I use it for a few different accounts, like my PSN.

DarcyMardin

My account name, PhilippaSomerville, was inspired by one of my all-time favorite fictional characters from a series of historical novels by Scottish writer Dorothy Dunnett. My husband, @FrancisCrawford, got the inspiration for his name from the same source.

My forum name is based on a fictional character from one of my own books.

LadyLethalla

I was Lethalla on the Assassin's Creed official forums... sort of female-assassin-y.
Which lead to a then-guildie nicknaming me Tally... when I then made a new PSN name I became TallyCat. Because I like cats. (And nothing to do with Metallica, as my husband thought.)

RebornV3x

This is the TLDR version of my names origin my current name is shortened from my older name Ive used in past games the Reborn part is because my original name I went by in high school was forgotten so I was reborn is a way I had to pick a new name and start over. Next the 3 is because its the 3rd account/gamertag ive gone by in my life the V is short for Version because Reborn Version 3.0 is too long since most sites don't like periods, spaces or special characters so RebornV3.0 didn't work either the X is used from time to time mainly for my gamertag since I couldn't name myself RebornV3 on Xbox even tho the name never existed.

SteveCampsOut

I like double entendres! Figure it out.

tinythinker

SteveCampsOut wrote: »

I like double entendres! Figure it out.