EPTBlizzard's arbitrary name restrictions - Page 4
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Sated
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FFW_Rude
France10201 Posts
On August 08 2013 00:32 Sated wrote: If you rename Red XIII as Nanaki then you get some pretty funny conversations at Cosmo Canyon... True. But try the Nibehleim passage with all you characters as Sephiroth. (Also i encourage you to try the same thing with "Zack" as character name). But we are offtopic  | ||
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rd
United States2586 Posts
On August 07 2013 23:08 Plansix wrote: I am 90% sure it is a security reason or their system needs the name to have at least three letters in the account. And although the complaint is valid, the tone of the complaint is very entitled. No one would care if he said "Man, this sucks, I wish it was like this". But the tone is "I should be able to do this and its wrong that I can't. I shouldn't have to characters to my name that I don't want to. Its wrong." Most people are not objecting to the complaint, but the entitled tone the complaint. No, you're definitely projecting entitlement. But it's pretty easy when you don't place as much stock into a name as I do. And because you don't understand, I can't word this as being problematic because it would imply the requirement of a solution and thus entitlement, because this isn't something you consider a problem. At least not for you. And because it's a fairly insignificant problem I can't act like it's a problem at all. | ||
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Plansix
United States60190 Posts
On August 08 2013 04:09 rd wrote: No, you're definitely projecting entitlement. But it's pretty easy when you don't place as much stock into a name as I do. And because you don't understand, I can't word this as being problematic because it would imply the requirement of a solution and thus entitlement, because this isn't something you consider a problem. At least not for you. And because it's a fairly insignificant problem I can't act like it's a problem at all. No I cannot claim it is not a problem, as that would require you to not care about it any more. That is correct. I will say that it is a problem that is so minor that the issue solely exist within your mind. It does no limit your ability to play games or interact with people. There are a number of ways that you can convey the exact same information with 3 letters as you can 2. And by stating that problem out loud and making other people aware of it, you open the issue up to be assessed by others. If they assess that that your problem and feel it is not very important, that is their decision. And if they respond saying “That is really your problem and I don’t think anyone should spend any time attempting to fix it” that is a totally valid response. | ||
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Poo
Canada536 Posts
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QuanticHawk
United States32071 Posts
 there was a dude who drew out an alligator on east and i really wanted that! nostalgia... | ||
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mothergoose729
United States666 Posts
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rd
United States2586 Posts
On August 09 2013 11:35 Poo wrote: It is quite silly in some ways. People should be allowed to have whatever ID they want. Then again, I think the main purpose of it is to ensure that IDs have some sort of ingenuity to them. You can't really accomplish that with a 1 or 2 character ID I think (unless you're JD, but that's an exception imo). Really depends on what you define as ingenuity when making a name. You can argue that 1-2 character ID's rarely make creative and meaningful names, and you'd probably be right most of the time, but that doesn't change the fact that you can have equally uncreative and meaningless names at any span of characters, eg. barcodes; asdfkg. Given that it's subjective to the user what makes a name meaningful, and that the length of the name has no tangible bearing on this, you can only then ask whether or not enforcing quality names is a realistic and beneficial goal at the cost of freedom. edit: and im really leaning towards the limit having nothing to do with name quality, but just following the general precedent of enforcing -some- kind of minimum. | ||
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ninazerg
United States7291 Posts
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I'd like to know a reason why a 2 letter ID isn't acceptable, if it's a security reason they could just add a warning in their terms of service that nobody reads and they would be covered for all and any complaints. lol I find it odd that people are perfectly fine with people using barcodes for their names but when somebody actually wants to use their nickname half of you want to crucify him for ever mentioning it. What a bunch of keyboard warriors.
