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If legolas meant so much to them, they should probably go play lotro. Yes, I'm well aware, that this was just an example, but It's as sure as death, that we will have to deal with Gandalf, Frodo, Obiwan and the higly esteemed Noobkillor.


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Even if they would redo everything, it doesn't mean that you would get the name you wanted. An example.. i stood up 5:30AM to get the ONLY name i wanted in Guild Wars 2. The official launch was at 6:00AM. I logged in, created my toon and joined the server 6:01AM. And the name was taken. I never used the name in the previous open beta weekends so no one could know that there is interest in this name (It's actually this one i have here.. and i resgistered this name just a few minutes ago...) Just to tell you how RANDOM those name registrations can be and how hardcore some people are about their names.


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They thought it was a nice move so more people would pre order it is my guess. It was unnecessary and create more problems that it solved and instead of giving players more reasons to pre order instead made angry the one that already did. Yet, they took the time and effort to apologize, Do I think that 5 BoomBoxes is enough? Actually I would've loved to have the opportunity to actually choose one of the rewards from the BoomBoxes (For example giving away one mount or maybe one custome set) nonetheless it is more than enough for me. Some people are asking for a free name change, I guess that would be an amazing way to solve this trouble thou if is up to me I don't care.


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1.) Yes, locked for 14 days even after the person makes a character. I think it's 17 days counting early access. 2.) Yes they can totally make a character on every server just to be a jerk. Some people probably will. Hopefully not the majority, though. The details of Carbines global name reservation are a HUGE disappointment. Even if the service didn't crash and lag out it still would have left tons of people not able to get their name because of it being global for 14 days instead of 1 per server. I don't know what they were thinking. I wasn't able to lock down any of the 20 or so names I had ready to try and reserve. Because of that I now know I need to not play for the first 17 days of release if i want to try again to get one of those names when they unlock (lot of good my pre-order early access is doing me, eh). I might do that. I might wait for 17 days while my friends all level and do dungeons and form up groups. I might be back in 17 days to get my name. Or I might not. I might just not play at all because of this crap.


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And what about those that this isn't the case for? What about those names that person B actually started to reserve before person A and got it? If you really believe it was completely random, then this applies to more than 50% of the names reserved during the first few hours (> 50% because luck also favors the early). Are they supposed to have a best-of-3 roll off?


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Just because a mockup of a UI makes it into the game, doesn't mean any of the backend functionality is ready to go. I'd like to believe character and guild name changes could be available shortly after launch, but we have no idea how close to ready those features are, and I fear people are going to be disappointed and confuse inability with unwillingness.


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Right. My point is that by panicking over nothing, you became part of the problem and now you want other people to provide you with a solution. You couldn't get the name you wanted, so you tied up a name you didn't want. Why? Didn't think you'd come up with a name you didn't want at launch? Yes, you were well within your right to pick a name you didn't want, I just don't understand why you would. But you did, and now it's locked. I don't understand why you think you should get a do over (if indeed you do think that, I don't want to put words in your mouth). So how many reserved names out there do we think are names people didn't want, they just felt they had to reserve a name now, or lose it? That said, I don't have a particular side in this. I've argued that Carbine came up with a horrible plan and then failed to make it work (and I listed several common sense ways they could have done it better- no tech skill required). But I also understand why Carbine can't go back on what they've already done. Not won't, CAN'T. If they want to give people a free name change at some point in the future, I'm fine with that (although I'm sure there will be crying when that happens too), but there can not be a do over.


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Yes, it's true. That's why we all hate it. Absolutely nothing is wrong with the usual method, that's what most of us want & would be perfectly happy with.


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I really don't think Carbine will consider a reset, the amount of grief over this unpleasant event would just multiply. Not to mention the fact that many have announced their reserved names now, just think how much trolling that would breed. I'd suggest giving up on the reset tbh, it won't happen. Also, as others have mentioned, aside from people using scripts the system was fair. We all had the same low chance of reserving a name.


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I kind of wish they'd never done it. I did finally get the name I wanted but it was not a fun process at all, it pretty much sucked. Hopefully any future games will take a page from this disaster and let us pick our names at launch instead.


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This isn't the best course of action, it would actually be the worst. The name registration has been going on for a few days now and there are people who are happy with what they got (you just don't see many of them here because they have no reason to come complain). What Carbine seems to be doing now with resetting the editing timer for people who picked a name seems the best course of action. Don't confuse what you want or what you think would be "fair" with what would be best. I agree name reservation, especially the way it was planned, was a bad idea from the start. Getting your name when you make your toon is something we're all use to and at least comfortable with, but to Wildstarize a phrase, that spaceship has sailed... cowboy.


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