The Daily Grind: Do you try to grab names on launch?

@Ehra

That could also just meant that the names you took, nobody wants. Years ago, none of my names were ever taken. People saw them, obviously liked them, and have since commandeered them. I've used NeverDeath as one of my primary aliases since 1998, and only in recent years have seen it popping up all over the place, with other people now using it before I can. The other day I was playing a game and someone asked if I was Steve from World of Warcraft, because he had that same name. I had to inform them that there was a time when I was the only one in WoW with that name, and now if you armory it there are dozens.

Hell, Blizzard even likes my names enough to steal them. In Vanilla I had a guild named Soulshatter, which was the only Soulshatter in the game, on the server where one of the Devs ran a guild called Fires of Heaven, and Soulshatter became a spell in Burning Crusade. I had an Elemental Shaman in Wrath named Augury, and within a patch or two they made Elemental Shaman gloves called Gloves of Augury. But really, none of that bothers me, even the jackasses who run around copying my aliases - probably copying them from a copier by now (Not just NeverDeath but also some of the more obscure and less obvious names which have since become commonly stolen). My pet peeve is when people want a name that's taken, they don't just come up with another one but bust out the character map and butcher the name all to hell till it looks like it was handwritten by an old man with rickets.

@NeverDeath

lol. Someone's pissed.

@NeverDeath : your post would be more interesting if any of your names were actual NAMES, rather than just common English words, or combinations of two common English words.

@NeverDeath. lol, inflated sense of self importance much?

@Bondy Haha, damn man that's dedication. ;)

@Khalus

Yeah I can relate to that man. Why are people so unoriginal and boring? There are a million words in the English language, you'd think they could mash a couple of them together to make something that sounds cool. And that's only if they fail to make normal names, to which there are virtually no limits.

@NeverDeath

Yeah, like you said in your other post too, what makes it even worse are the people that can't think of something original, or didn't get the name before someone else, so they butcher the name by adding a few more letters.

In the end it still sounds almost the same, but looks ridiculously bad and screams, look how stupid I am...heh If you can't claim the original spelling of a name, then choose something else! Especially if its something popular, like the over used Sephiroth.