Forum username suffixes

chipz88b14_ESO · April 2014

Anyone know what's up with the forum username suffixes? E.g. I have a suffix of b14_eso. I can only guess that means I signed up during the 14th beta, but I really have no idea...

Alyrn_Grey · April 2014

When your forum account was first created it was automated and you didn't get a choice on it. All of those ended with ESO. I had one and in beta changed my forum name.

chipz88b14_ESO · April 2014

How did you change your username? I found the edit profile page, but the username input is disabled. I suppose I could be a turd and hack the HTML to test their security, but I usually shy away from things like that...

Sarenia · April 2014

Used to be in Edit Profile.

It appears they did indeed disable that.

They've been on a rampage making the forum as unenjoyable as possible. First they disabled custom avatars, then they disabled images in signatures, now changing names is disabled.

Next I imagine they'll limit us to one post per hour.

chipz88b14_ESO · April 2014

Interesting. It makes sense that they would want to prevent you from changing your username, though.

To the original question - does anyone know the meaning of the suffix? I believe Alryn_Grey is correct, I didn't choose my username (I certainly wouldn't have added a weird suffix to it). I have seen others with bxx_ESO suffix and it made me curious.

Soris · September 2015

bump

does anyone figured what is it means?

ZOS_Brett · September 2015

Hello chipz88b14_ESO,

While users don't have access to change their forum usernames anytime they wish it is possible to request a forum name change from the moderation team by using this thread here. As a rule we only will grant one name change per person.