When I get to pick my name..

I am hoping that Intrepid is keeping an eye on Amazon's New World's latest debacle.

To review,

Amazon has chosen to stagger their game release based around Time Zones. This kind of makes since in that it helps to stagger initial server load onto the central system. The mistake they made was restricting the names chosen by a player to all servers regardless of time zone. This means that if I wanted to choose Mahes as my name, I either have to log into the European server at the same time as the world, or hope that nobody chooses it before the East Coast release. The name can only be used once, regardless of server or timezone cluster.

This will lead to the exact opposite of what they were choosing to do by staggering the release. The European Server will be hit by every player who cares about reserving a name, which will be most. Yes a player can add an X or use a symbol to replace a letter but it is not the same. Amazon might as well time the release for all servers to open at the same time.

Sit back and enjoy the show as the European server crashes due to 150,000(Conservative) players attempting to all log on at the exact same time.

Intrepid please study and learn from this, as you guys already have a challenge revolving around certain players being able to choose their name before the open public.

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Jonta

JustVine wrote: »

Jiraiya wrote: »

It's honestly surprising how many people don't value the unique name system. I found it to be a very important to any game I play. Yes, in real life there are people with the same name - but 1, this is real life and 2, when you see a real unique name it stands out to you.

I think instead of having a time to login and reserve your name it should be done a few weeks in advance. The names should be selected and just be waiting to be input into the system after each player chooses their name.

Given that the chances of Steven isn't going with my brilliant solution to this whole thing are low, I agree. It should be open in advanced for those who have name reservations. I think Beta 2 should essentially 'let people create their Release Character' in advanced. Let the rest fight it out.

Rules of Acquisition #32 The early investor reaps the most interest.

Ye thats the fair way to do it, I can choose and save my name because I was in Beta , the rest of you can go stuff yourselves.

I hope the sarcasm isnt wasted .....

ariatras

CROW3 wrote: »

Meh - names shouldn’t be unique in an mmo. I’ve always thought that was a flawed design. If you have 50 people with the same name across 50,000 players, who cares?

I agree, but I cannot think of a solution to a few problems that would bring.

Namely receiving whispers and or mail from people not in a friend's list or guild.

MybroViajero

Pay to reserve the name? , (not including old AoC packages).
Would that be right or wrong?

RandomPlayer0001

Unless they allow multiple players to have the same name, you need to have quite a few options ready when you first log in and start playing. Otherwise, the name selection tends to go like this:
"...sorry, that name is already taken."
"...sorry, that name is already taken."
"...sorry, that name is already taken."
"...sorry, that name is already taken."
"...sorry, that name is already taken."

2 hours later, player just settles on a random, stupid name just so they can finally play the damn game. lol

George_Black

Is that what happened with your forum account?

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