Nicknames? Why? - Page 24

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Norway713 Posts

November 30 2011 21:10 GMT

#461

On November 22 2011 12:13 PSIKevin wrote:
Would you rather the casters say

And coming up next we have Lee Jung Hoon vs Kim Hammar
Or
And coming up next we have MarineKingPrime vs. QIMSase

The first one, it says a lot more about who is about to play if you don't know the players from beforehand.

Kluey

Canada1197 Posts

November 30 2011 21:12 GMT

#462

I prefer Chris "HuK" Loranger or Greg "IdrA" Fields. It's a lot easier to remember someone by their handle rather than their real name while they're playing. When you're interviewing or talking to them you should call them by their first name.

hahaimhenry

Canada368 Posts

November 30 2011 21:14 GMT

#463

i don't really think it's a big deal, but when youre casting a game and hit ctrl + n the players' nicknames pop up so it's probably a bit easier for people who don't know the game that well to know who they're talking about. i mean, if they kept saying "Greg Fields" and at the top it has IdrA and HuK, people who just started watching won't know who the hell Greg Fields is lol

CatNzHat

United States1599 Posts

November 30 2011 21:19 GMT

#464

Nicknames serve a number of purposes, I think the first and foremost of which is to make it really easy to remember a player, for example if you were to walk into a bar and a sc2 game happened to be on, if the players full names were up on the screen, and the casters were calling them by their full names, it would be very unlikely that you'd remember who the hell either of the players were a few hours later, let alone the next day. A nickname should be first and foremost easy to remember, secondly it should have some relation to who you are as a person, TLO's ID gives you a nice story of him and his brother playing 2v2 together, MarineKingPrime's is really a story of how he literally made a name for himself by revolutionizing the TvZ matchup.

Just my thoughts.

howLiN

Portugal1676 Posts

November 30 2011 21:23 GMT

#465

I actually would like a mixed system. Like putting the nickname as a middle name for example Chris "HuK" Loranger. Mentioning both would be cool.

Xapti

Canada2473 Posts

November 30 2011 21:55 GMT

#466

Nicknames are shorter, and hence faster and easier to say or type. Also one needs to consider that players don't get popular until they do exceptionally well, and when they start out they need to chose a nickname to play the game.

MMA seems to have a lot of nicknames. Sure their full names (or half of it) are usually mentioned with the nickname, but not necessarily 100% of the time even. The use of nicknames naturally from completely non-electronic/anonymous roots in my opinion demonstrates that it has benefits or merit.

All this said, I don't really care whether they use one or the other — typically they use both wen they want to be complete, and just the nickname when they want to be brief; that makes perfect sense to me to continue with.

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