Inactive Name Release

[Steve_Howe]

Completely and utterly unneeded and the ultimate waste of dev time

Turbine's made you their "Official Evaluator of Ideas" and also their "Time Allotter to Problems" have they?

Congrats on your new job!

[Uska]

Turbine's made you their "Official Evaluator of Ideas" and also their "Time Allotter to Problems" have they?

Congrats on your new job!

No it's just unneeded anyone can come up with a name so no need to do this so it being unneeded means dev time spent on it is wasted simple common sense

[Drakos]

Thesaurus.com Never had a problem with a name in the whole span I've been playing this game, and I'd wager I've been around longer then most. Might not get my first choice every time, but it doesn't take too long time find one I like. And I'm an alt-aholic. But, can agree that the 10 Year anniversary might be a good time to free up any name that hasn't logged in in 9+ years. I don't think those folks are coming back...

Even if they did come back, the game is totally unrecognizable from the way it was back then, they would be practically starting over anyway.

[Uska]

Even if they did come back, the game is totally unrecognizable from the way it was back then, they would be practically starting over anyway.

So they still shouldn't lose the name they got by being an early joiner.

[Drakos]

So they still shouldn't lose the name they got by being an early joiner.

Well, first I wasn't saying they should, I was just adding a comment about what you had said. Secondly, your post was the one that was saying you could agree that after the 10 year anniversary would be a good time to free up names not active for 9+ years. Dude, you seen to be so intent on disagreeing with people around here that you even disagree with people for things they didn't even say, take a pill and back off.

[Chai]

So they still shouldn't lose the name they got by being an early joiner.

Maybe from a personal view, but from a marketing / business view, yes, they should, by degree. The longer they havent logged in, the more room it could have made for someone else. I understand supporting early joiners, but falling off the bandwagon and never logging in for 8-9 years is far less logical to support than someone who either is playing (and paying into the system) here and now, or someone who wants to play in the near future. Furthermore, notifying them a few months ahead of time resolves the issue, because if they wanted to preserve the name they can log in, free of charge. This makes it so the only folks who have their names taken are those who arent even remotely thinking of playing again.

[Steve_Howe]

Maybe from a personal view, but from a marketing / business view, yes, they should, by degree. The longer they havent logged in, the more room it could have made for someone else. I understand supporting early joiners, but falling off the bandwagon and never logging in for 8-9 years is far less logical to support than someone who either is playing (and paying into the system) here and now, or someone who wants to play in the near future. Furthermore, notifying them a few months ahead of time resolves the issue, because if they wanted to preserve the name they can log in, free of charge. This makes it so the only folks who have their names taken are those who arent even remotely thinking of playing again.

Never thought I'd say this but...I fully agree with Chai. FULLY.

[Bluegirl_Two]

Completely and utterly unneeded and the ultimate waste of dev time

In the past I would have agreed with you. I would have had the discussion, chalked it up to one of those "solving the world's problems" nights over a few beers and let it go at that.

But, I think that we are approaching a point where some serious reworking of the existing game might be needed.

We already see the issue with the servers. We know that Turbine wants to change hosts and upgrade equipment. We also know that it is getting harder and harder to keep the server merge monkeys contained in their barrels. At some point it becomes more effective to update the design instead of continuing to patch the old system.

Is it needed? Not if the status quo is maintained. We don't "need" to be able to have name duplicates and we especially don't need it if we continue to operate on the current number of servers.

Even then, it isn't a true need (a point I've made elsewhere). I'll agree to that analysis. But, I do think that it would be a positive step for the game with the potential for greater player satisfaction. That isn't exactly a need but I do think it is a desirable outcome. And, I think, the posts in this forum tend to support that desire -- they just don't have a plan to get there.

If it creates the positives and if the negatives can be overcome then it is not a waste of developer time. To the contrary, it might be the very thing to extend the life of the game by increasing options going forward.

[SableShadow]

Never thought I'd say this but...I fully agree with Chai. FULLY.

Need to borrow my ice skates?

[Oxarhamar]

Maybe from a personal view, but from a marketing / business view, yes, they should, by degree. The longer they havent logged in, the more room it could have made for someone else. I understand supporting early joiners, but falling off the bandwagon and never logging in for 8-9 years is far less logical to support than someone who either is playing (and paying into the system) here and now, or someone who wants to play in the near future. Furthermore, notifying them a few months ahead of time resolves the issue, because if they wanted to preserve the name they can log in, free of charge. This makes it so the only folks who have their names taken are those who arent even remotely thinking of playing again.

This

[Bluegirl_Two]

No it's just unneeded anyone can come up with a name so no need to do this so it being unneeded means dev time spent on it is wasted simple common sense

Posts like this make me wish we still had the negative rep button.

Just who is "anyone" anyway? People in this thread are commenting about how hard it is to come up with names. In spite of people insisting it is easy, there are those for whom it is not. Being disrespectful of those who are having difficulty doesn't make your point of view more valid.

It just makes me wish we still had the negative rep button.

[Sebastrd]

Any other system will complicate mail and tells and that is one of the main reasons I am against any changes plus the fact it boggles my mind that people have trouble comming up with names.

Not a problem for you =/= Not a problem for everybody

So they still shouldn't lose the name they got by being an early joiner.

The money of an "early joiner" that left is not worth more than the money of a newcomer.

[Steve_Howe]

posts like this make me wish we still had the negative rep button.

Just who is "anyone" anyway? People in this thread are commenting about how hard it is to come up with names. In spite of people insisting it is easy, there are those for whom it is not. Being disrespectful of those who are having difficulty doesn't make your point of view more valid.

It just makes me wish we still had the negative rep button.

Truth!

[Oxarhamar]

Not a problem for you =/= Not a problem for everybody



The money of an "early joiner" that left is not worth more than the money of a newcomer.

This

[HungarianRhapsody]

Completely and utterly unneeded and the ultimate waste of dev time

The devs have wasted their time on WAAAAAY worse things than this.

[bartharok]

Posts like this make me wish we still had the negative rep button.

Just who is "anyone" anyway? People in this thread are commenting about how hard it is to come up with names. In spite of people insisting it is easy, there are those for whom it is not. Being disrespectful of those who are having difficulty doesn't make your point of view more valid.

It just makes me wish we still had the negative rep button.

Inventing a name is easy, but it might be that copying one is the hard part. You can just type a short bit of gibberish, and then add/remove letters until it becomes a name. Making a name becomes a problem only if you want a certain name, or wish to use a word as a name.

[Uska]

Posts like this make me wish we still had the negative rep button.

Just who is "anyone" anyway? People in this thread are commenting about how hard it is to come up with names. In spite of people insisting it is easy, there are those for whom it is not. Being disrespectful of those who are having difficulty doesn't make your point of view more valid.

It just makes me wish we still had the negative rep button.

Hmm anyone with brains or immagination then it's not hard at all to make names I have 20 characters on each server and I only duplicated a couple names once or twice thst I really liked and I too wish neg rep was still around not to throw back at you since you haven't posted anything truly worthy of it that I have seen but others have and unless your green stick is big enough it has little to no effect.

People claiming it's hard are likely to attached to certain names thst would be likely gone or aren't thst original but if they took their time and thought could easily come up with good names

[Uska]

The devs have wasted their time on WAAAAAY worse things than this.

Name 3

[Steve_Howe]

Name 3

Hall of Heroes
Iconics
Replacing Euphonia's Challenge
Mabar
The Winter Festival in Eveningstar

I could go on.

[Uska]

Hall of Heroes
Iconics
Replacing Euphonia's Challenge
Mabar
The Winter Festival in Eveningstar

I could go on.

Hall of heros what's wrong that?
Mabar is removed and that's good making it in the first place was bad
I don't mind the eveningstsr festival

The only one I agree with is Euphonia's challenge so you got 1

Iconics should have had all 15 levels locked but they didn't they shouldn't have all levels univerally available because then they would be races not iconics