Heya,
I wanted to get everyone's opinion on this small issue of mine. I am going to preface this post by saying that MA support has denied my request on numerous occasions and I don't expect them to change their decision based on this post, I merely wish to understand the decision as the reasoning provided by MA doesn't necessarily seem to apply to my specific case.
So what do I mean when I say allow players with duplicates to change their name? It means that if you chose the exact same name for either your first, user or last name, that either one should be allowed to be changed to something else while the rest remains the same.
When I started the game a little over 2 years ago, I made the silly mistake of having a duplicate in my avatar's name, due in part to EUs unconventional naming system and ever since it has been a thorn in my eyes. My reasoning to do this at the time was that I wanted to be known as simply "Gladora" in the game, but I didn't know whether to put it as my "first name" or "username", so I put it as both, resulting in my current avatar name "Gladora Gladora Amenath". Little did I know at the time that all 3 fields would become my permanent name within the game until it was obviously already too late.
So I filed a ticket, requesting to have the name adjusted to "Gladora Syclya Amenath" as I would have intended it to be from the start, had I known about the importance of all 3 name plates.
On this topic, MA says:
"Unless the avatar name violates the EULA or ToU or you happened to write your real name as your avatar name, we do not change the name of your avatar. The reason for not allowing a change of your avatar name is that you build reputation and trust inside the Entropia Universe by the name of your avatar. To allow this to be changed would undermine confidence in existing avatar relations."
But as it is clear, my intention is not deter my identity by becoming someone else. The fact that I'm making this public knowledge with this post only reinforces that. If anything at all, the entirety of my current name would remain exactly the same. I would just be granted an actual middle name and get rid of the duplicate. On top of this, I have heard of multiple instances of people being allowed to change the entirety of their avatar's name despite not adhering to MA's policy, so I really do no understand why no exception can be made for me even though MA's policy could be applicable here.
I wanted to get everyone's opinion on this small issue of mine. I am going to preface this post by saying that MA support has denied my request on numerous occasions and I don't expect them to change their decision based on this post, I merely wish to understand the decision as the reasoning provided by MA doesn't necessarily seem to apply to my specific case.
So what do I mean when I say allow players with duplicates to change their name? It means that if you chose the exact same name for either your first, user or last name, that either one should be allowed to be changed to something else while the rest remains the same.
When I started the game a little over 2 years ago, I made the silly mistake of having a duplicate in my avatar's name, due in part to EUs unconventional naming system and ever since it has been a thorn in my eyes. My reasoning to do this at the time was that I wanted to be known as simply "Gladora" in the game, but I didn't know whether to put it as my "first name" or "username", so I put it as both, resulting in my current avatar name "Gladora Gladora Amenath". Little did I know at the time that all 3 fields would become my permanent name within the game until it was obviously already too late.
So I filed a ticket, requesting to have the name adjusted to "Gladora Syclya Amenath" as I would have intended it to be from the start, had I known about the importance of all 3 name plates.
On this topic, MA says:
"Unless the avatar name violates the EULA or ToU or you happened to write your real name as your avatar name, we do not change the name of your avatar. The reason for not allowing a change of your avatar name is that you build reputation and trust inside the Entropia Universe by the name of your avatar. To allow this to be changed would undermine confidence in existing avatar relations."
But as it is clear, my intention is not deter my identity by becoming someone else. The fact that I'm making this public knowledge with this post only reinforces that. If anything at all, the entirety of my current name would remain exactly the same. I would just be granted an actual middle name and get rid of the duplicate. On top of this, I have heard of multiple instances of people being allowed to change the entirety of their avatar's name despite not adhering to MA's policy, so I really do no understand why no exception can be made for me even though MA's policy could be applicable here.
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but after all it´s a game about money... and seeing altered/ changed names or avatars with similar names always gives an uneasy feeling about Alts or other fishy stuff... just my 2pec
