No more naming woes in Champions Online

Great idea!! As I've said over on the Champs forums, nothing sucks worse than spending hours on a concept and then being screwed out of the name you want!! Some people whine about how long it may take to type it all out but how often will the people be on the same server at the same time with the same name??

What they're not telling you is that as soon as you create a character that shares a name with an existing one, you get pulled into a gladiator arena where you have to fight, to the death, with any of the other characters that share your name.

Because there can be only one.

That's awesome. Considering how many cool names fall off and rot in CoH, this will make for some incredible characters w/out limitations. Very good job Cryptic.

The likely hood of running into a 2nd or 3rd character w/ your same name will still be slim.


I hope some group out there make the exact same character, w/ the exact same name and run around confuzzling the crap out of people. LOL.

Great, now there will be a million and one people named "Wolverine"

Hasn't this been in CoX for some time now? I may be wrong, but I distinctly remember anyone being able to contact me @mymaincharactersname.

so does this mean that if i create a character named "DR. Cheese", and someone else has the same name, my name will change to Dr. Cheese@whatever?

I have to admit that I don't like the idea. I believe it will allow a stunning lack of originality in naming. We'll see loads of different "Blue Arrows" or whatever for those abilities that use a bow. And so on.

On the plus side, I guess it will make life easier for new people joining the game a couple of years post-launch.

But I'm suspecting I won't be one of them.

I happen to like having a unique name in my games. This idea sucks.

As far as I can see, this has both good and bad implications...

One, your incredibly original name that happens to taken on one realm out of 15 others in existence just happens to be the one you play on. Now you can have that name, a name that suits you, the name that defines you as more than a player... as a person. More than one people in a room will have the same first name as you; why not more than one person on the same server?

Finally, everyone and their dog can have a character named 'Annihilation'. The way it was meant to be.

I am really looking forward to the first time I see a guild where everyone is named Malcovich.

A couple of the bads; people will use this as a tool for grieving and scamming, there is not going to be a way around this. However at least they can use appropriate names like 'The Golden Farmer' instead of 'Asgienfi'.

Sorry, I don't like this at all.

Character name is a part of making a character unique on a server, and having to go around calling yourself Hero@handle in order for people to know who you are is just daft and unimmersive.

Why change something that *isn't* broken? Oh, because, like every other MMO company, they don't want to have to implement a system from the very beginning for clearing out names reserved by inactive accounts.

Last I played, CoX had a pretty good system in place (finally) for this, though I think it should affect *all* characters for accounts inactive over 6 months rather than just those of characters under a certain level.

The whiners can piss off. This is an awesome idea.