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Name Change is wayyyyy to expensive.
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AnviOfVai✭✭✭✭✭
✭fgoron2000 wrote: »katiesmith12341 wrote: »
I came to the conclusion that the high price is to stop people from abusing this feature - some people are just jerks and choose inappropriate names and some are freaks, which could use that to harass and pester other players. In such cases GM intervention is required and wherever staff is involved this drives costs higher - I still think the price is unreasonable, but it could not be cheap by these reasons as well.
Why not make it cheap and limit the change to every 90 days, for example.
Why not choose a proper name at character creation, then you don't need a name change.
I agree that a name change should be much cheaper, and I had the same thought about limiting frequency of use, I even had 6 months in mind, to minimize if not eliminate its abuse. Or at the higher price, maybe make a token a one-time use for each char on the account.
Further, there could be a number of reasons that a person wants or needs to change a name after starting play. This is the reason for me. This is the first time that I've played a MMO, and I was completely unaccustomed to working with a group of 8 (now 12) chars all at one time on my account. When I started creating the names, I was disappointed to find that I wasn't able to use either numbers or special characters in the name. Because of that, I ended up using longer, more descriptive names for each char. After playing for a while, I then found that the longer names were a bit cumbersome in some menus, dialogs, addons, and realized only then that I couldn't change the names. Now that I've played some, I have some ideas on how I'd like to reconfigure these names to shorten them, but not at this price...
Now if any of the above would be things that I "should" have known up front, I don't know how I would have before starting to play...but from now on just call me "the sadder but wiser girl" and yeah, I'm a guy...that's just a reference to the musical Music Man...
I think 6months is a bit too long. maybe a month. In time for subscribers crowns!
Oh yeah! same with my names they go Risanas, Narisana, Kirasana, because heck who knew you could have something like Tira Creed? I thought it would be like Swtor where you enter everything and that name is taken haha "I appear at my lord's behest, or perhaps I was always here, and you merely lacked the ability to see me."
PS4 - EU
AD - Pet Sorcerer - Damage Dealer - 160
DC - Warden - Werewolf - in - progress - 160
DC - Templar - Tank - 160
DC - Sorcerer - Damage Dealer - in - progress
EP - Dragon Knight -Fire Tank - 160
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fgoron2000✭✭✭✭katiesmith12341 wrote: »fgoron2000 wrote: »katiesmith12341 wrote: »
I came to the conclusion that the high price is to stop people from abusing this feature - some people are just jerks and choose inappropriate names and some are freaks, which could use that to harass and pester other players. In such cases GM intervention is required and wherever staff is involved this drives costs higher - I still think the price is unreasonable, but it could not be cheap by these reasons as well.
Why not make it cheap and limit the change to every 90 days, for example.
Why not choose a proper name at character creation, then you don't need a name change.
I agree that a name change should be much cheaper, and I had the same thought about limiting frequency of use, I even had 6 months in mind, to minimize if not eliminate its abuse. Or at the higher price, maybe make a token a one-time use for each char on the account.
Further, there could be a number of reasons that a person wants or needs to change a name after starting play. This is the reason for me. This is the first time that I've played a MMO, and I was completely unaccustomed to working with a group of 8 (now 12) chars all at one time on my account. When I started creating the names, I was disappointed to find that I wasn't able to use either numbers or special characters in the name. Because of that, I ended up using longer, more descriptive names for each char. After playing for a while, I then found that the longer names were a bit cumbersome in some menus, dialogs, addons, and realized only then that I couldn't change the names. Now that I've played some, I have some ideas on how I'd like to reconfigure these names to shorten them, but not at this price...
Now if any of the above would be things that I "should" have known up front, I don't know how I would have before starting to play...but from now on just call me "the sadder but wiser girl" and yeah, I'm a guy...that's just a reference to the musical Music Man...
I think 6months is a bit too long. maybe a month. In time for subscribers crowns! Oh yeah! same with my names they go Risanas, Narisana, Kirasana, because heck who knew you could have something like Tira Creed? I thought it would be like Swtor where you enter everything and that name is taken haha
then i'll meet u in the middle, how's 3 months like the earlier poster initially said...<g>0 -
MotokoKusanagi34✭✭✭katiesmith12341 wrote: »
I came to the conclusion that the high price is to stop people from abusing this feature - some people are just jerks and choose inappropriate names and some are freaks, which could use that to harass and pester other players. In such cases GM intervention is required and wherever staff is involved this drives costs higher - I still think the price is unreasonable, but it could not be cheap by these reasons as well.
I have seen funnier or more inappropriate PSN User names than ESO character names (the best ones being gaysonline99 and nippletwister). Have yet to see any strange names, after being able to change it.
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notimetocare✭✭✭✭✭
✭I see few legit reasns to name change aside from RPers. Not like level really restricts them, ànd usually changing a name there already means you want to redesign. Meh0 -
Didaco✭✭✭✭I'm fine with the name change price, it's not like you can change every day ad you please:
See it as a one time feat that let's you change that mistake you made when you created your now over 500+ hours of activity character.
What insults me the most is that I have to pay 10€ to change my mustache.1 -
Bigevilpeter✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭just buy a race and name change for 3500, then you would have bough name change for 500 crowns and have a free race change for the future0 -
SugaComa✭✭✭✭✭TheWhiteDarkness wrote: »
Thanks, I switched from imperial to elf for my night blade but a friend asked and cos I wasn't doing it I never looked to see, so thanks for helping me out0 -
Tapio75✭✭✭✭✭
✭Well, only reason why name change is so expensive is, so that people buy both race anbd name change together and thus, spend more money.
The right price for name change however, would be 1k crowns like appearance change.>>PC-EU Mostly PVE. Played since BETA<<0 -
Nerouyn✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭If you want to change the name because you've changed the race or gender of a character then all aspects are purely optional and you always have the option of re-rolling if you consider the cost too high a price to pay to avoid the grind of leveling up again.
Levels are the very least of what you lose when re-rolling.
Six plus months time-gated grind to do horse-feeding (which also costs gold) and learn research traits. Plus the time investment / cost of learning motifs. And gold spent on bag size increases. Time spent earning skill points from quests, dungeons, skyshards.1 -
JWKe✭✭✭✭runescape offers free name change for members per month
. We don't call them Zo$ for nothing.
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ADarklore✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭runescape offers free name change for members per month. We don't call them Zo$ for nothing.
So you mention ONE MMO that offers free, whereas the overwhelming majority of MMOs charge for it, if they even offer a name change. ZOS is actually pretty much in-step with most other MMOs in what they charge for, albeit, price wise is something else. I know DCUO offers name changes for $10 and most other character 'changes' are also $10 or less.CP: 1965 ** ESO+ Gold Road ** ~~ Stamina Arcanist ~~ Magicka Warden ~~ Magicka Templar ~~ ***** Strictly a solo PvE quester *****0 -
JWKe✭✭✭✭runescape offers free name change for members per month. We don't call them Zo$ for nothing.
So you mention ONE MMO that offers free, whereas the overwhelming majority of MMOs charge for it, if they even offer a name change. ZOS is actually pretty much in-step with most other MMOs in what they charge for, albeit, price wise is something else. I know DCUO offers name changes for $10 and most other character 'changes' are also $10 or less.
Yep. I mentioned ONE. So what? Are you suggesting that somehow offering a free name change is wrong, and that Zo$ should instead follow the industry norm?
The only thing I'm getting from your reply is that just because runescape stands out their formula is somehow incorrect.
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AnviOfVai✭✭✭✭✭
✭This thread suddenly woke up? Either way I have paid for about 3 name changes now so i guess it does not matter haha!"I appear at my lord's behest, or perhaps I was always here, and you merely lacked the ability to see me."
PS4 - EU
AD - Pet Sorcerer - Damage Dealer - 160
DC - Warden - Werewolf - in - progress - 160
DC - Templar - Tank - 160
DC - Sorcerer - Damage Dealer - in - progress
EP - Dragon Knight -Fire Tank - 160
EP - Nightblade - Damage Dealer - 1600 -
greylox✭✭✭✭✭In my drunken state I forgot a capital letter on the name of one of my characters...Gotta pay to change 1 letter now, actually not change...Just make bigger lol. Nvm my bad.PC EU
House of the Black Lotus
*{Smokes-in-the-Shade }* (Mag pet Sorc Argonian, prolific thief, willing participant of the dark arts, gardener of exotic...herbs)
{Lugdum The Mechanist} (Hybrid Orc Templar, collector of ancient Ayleid smoking pipes)
{Rantoul} (Dark Elf Magknight, likes an ale between boss fights, has been known to offer daedric princes out in a fist fight)
{Red, The Wanderer} (Bosmer stam sorc and hunter extraordinaire)
{Shoots-For-Stars} (Argonian Mag pet Sorc Ice mage Healer)
*{Jinny the spark }* (Sassy Imperial Stamplar)
{Crezzi the Drifter} (Magblade khajiit burglar, available for questionable operations)
{Grif the Despised} (StamKnight Tank Nord, Eastmarch Master Drinker and spinner of tall yarns)
{Geraldine Stone-Heart} (High Elf MagSorc Ice Tank, Mystic, practitioner of the ancient arts)
*{Anawinn}* (Stam pet Ward Redguard, Mother to a bear and an unruly Hunger,Librarian, field medic and natures fist)
{*}Mains
{ CP 900+ }
Caretaker of Battle Island (Grand Topal), the holiday destination for the discerning warrior
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Quaff_itSoul ShrivenAmen, too expensive for such a mundane, simple and reasonable thing as name change.
IMHO: Lower the price is reasonable, hence the outcry about it. & ESO plus should get discount for even less.
If you weren’t feeling ripped off yet forking over money for each new release, this name change thing pushed me over the threshold-
I’m considering dropping the whole thing sooner than later. Before I get deeper into this nonsense of paying money for in game benefits. They made a fabulous alternate reality, yes. I love it, maybe too much... invest real money for stuff that has no real world implication? Hmm... Life passes by, do I want to be sitting at a computer?0
