Honestly? Having the ability to expand my circle of friends is much more important to me than the names of my characters. Look: I love them, and the names i gave to them, but having more people to meet? Phew. Amazing!

I dont understand how you seriously want to start that discussion.

Other games with crossplay have a little pc / xbox / ps icon next to the name.
None of your names will be affected.
Just trying to find issues where there are no issues.

Wouldnt bother me but also wouldnt happen because of icons.
Im convinced thats the least issue to consider by zos side about the crossplay topic.

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The poll with 3 „negative“ options, one neutral and only two positive ones is not really neutral.

Im sure people will agree your concerns but i would recommend to have some trust into Zos, they will be aware of the Name thematic and sort that propperly.
I doubt any names will be harmed

@amiiegee Just out of curiosity, which options would you include in such poll?

This is why I included Other - Because it's impossible to list every possibility.

I am not sure what other positive I could have added. Either players wouild not be bothered or it would only be a mnior issue.

And I purposely made this annonymous and did not make any statements about my own view in the description so as to not influence others' responses. I wanted players true feelings.

I made it as neutral as I knew how. And any name change would be forced, not by choice.

But I appreciate players indicating how they feel about it.

Just a suggestion to not add only one true positive and three dramaticly ones negative and maybe formulate out that nobody said anywone would force someone to anything for the next time.

I participated it anway and then now we will see what happens

I posted the poll as I saw the issue, and I find using "forced" to be appropriate for what could happen in this situation.

I found the poll accurate as to what could possibly happen based on the way things have been handled in the past, such as account wide achievements, and really balanced pretty well, especially thanks to the last option.

Of course, everyone hopes it’s a non-issue and will be handled differently, but theoretically in the event that I might have to change one or more of my characters’ names, I would be very upset and I would consider not playing because character names are an intricate part of my characters’ identities, much more so than what skills they currently have in case I decide to take advantage of Subclassing and switch something around. That would be my same character just learning new skills, but if I had to change their name that would do away with something that is at the core of who the character is to me.

In the real world, we sometimes switch professions and have to learn new skills, and then we might get rusty in our older skills unless we relearn them, but we don’t usually have to change our names, so I apply that to my gaming characters as well.

This is all just my opinion, of course, and I know a lot of people feel differently.

It rather depends on what the crossplay mechanics are. If those who want to play with others from a different platform do so on a new server or instance then it wouldn't be of any relevance to me as I wouldn't be participating. However, if players want to come to an existing server from a different platform then if there's a name clash they're the ones that need to change their character or account names as they're the ones making the move that results in the clash.

We should never under-estimate the importance of character names to some players, they may have had those names in this game for over 10 years and in many other games throughout their gaming years with carefully written and evolved biographies.

I doubt I'd be forced to change anything in this situation, but if I did then I'd just add special characters like I had to do for one of my characters cause the name was taken, give characters who lack a last name a last name, etc.

No, the choices aren't biased. They are a progressive "It would not bother me at all" to "It would be a deal breaker for me and I would move on" with an "Other" option for those that felt none of the choices were appropriate for how they felt about it.

There are multiple degrees of how much something may bother a player, from minor to extreme. But if a player is not bothered by something there are no degrees of how not bothered they are.

For me, two of the names I use for my characters are really personal to me, and if mine were changed, it would be upsetting to me, especially since, in all the years I have been using them online (like 20), I have only come across one place where they were already in use, and that was a pet site, and each pet had to have unique names. It was also without the 'Of Caer Salis' part of the name.

Now, if there are other people with the name? I don't care. I just wouldn't want MY instance of the name changed because someone else was using it.

i dont see why a characters name must be unique, what is unique to your account is your @accountname, so a chars name in a lines of code should read charactername@accountname already. i think it was stupid to have such restrictions artificially in the first place. other mmorpgs, like star trek online, have no such restrictions...

I doubt crossplay will ever become a thing in the first place, so the debate is probably moot. But if it ever does eventuate, then it probably needs to be done on an opt in basis. So if PS or Xbox want to opt in on the PC servers they have to make a physical choice, once opt'd in you are on crossplay forever. If the person opting in has duplicate names, they're the ones that have to change their names to complete the merge.