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-All Visual Frames have been wiped. Despite normal achievements remaining unchanged (so proof of title acquisition is still present), all Signature Costume Visual Frames are no longer registered. Players who got them through special packs however, may not have the achievement and may lack proof of acquisition.

Evidence of the following here.

This applies to all EU players so far. Not a single exception has been found yet.

The previous maintenance was supposed to fix this, but only temporary frames were restored. Since this is a widespread problem, please look at it again.

NA had priority on names, creation date wasn't even a factor, which is one of the reasons this is a problem.
Calling it "player toxicity" is just another reason it should be reined in. Trolling other people by stealing their names is anti-fun, and there's no countermeasure besides contacting support. If support then goes "Oh, poor you. There's nothing wrong here though.", that's not very motivating to keep supporting the game.

It seems EME also greatly underestimated how much people value their names, I had several crewmembers looking for alternate games to play in case the names they had for years ended up lost because EME took the easy way out during the merge.

I would like to see a system like other person mentioned before, something like using your account/user name as a surname. This way there could be multiple players with same character name, but you still can differentiate thanks to their account name. Pretty much like real life naming system.
I get that is unfair for the EU players that the name that you wanted, and some times even the original name you had in your server was taken. It also sucks for new players that want to use a name and can't.

However, while I don´t agree with the people that is abusing the system, at same time I don´t really think that start banning people who sell names would fix this problem.
I am from the US server, and way before any merge I was unable to use some names that I wanted for my characters. Many of those are not even common ones and are names that I never see online. This makes me think that some of those names were taken way before even I started to play this game. Many of those names maybe are used by players that quit long time ago, or people that play at other time, or as others mention: maybe those names were taken by someone who reserve for using on future. So even if you ban all people that sell names:

What do you do with the people who got the name and is not selling?
How can you be sure that said name is just not being hoarded for future?
And if it is a case of name hoarding, what do you do about that?
what about someone who created a character, maybe stop playing for a few weeks and then decides to come back?
What about people who is not max level and have a name you want?

Also,In what you base the right for name?:
---Months or years of account creation?
---Character levels?
---Amount of real money cashed?
---Number of hours played?
---Inactivity?

Keep in mind that even if people are selling names, it will still be a case of either: "First come, first served." or "Money makes the world go round." Specially for common names. So there will still be other people wanting the name that someone got from the name seller first or for more money.

So whatever the stance is about selling names, the issue will persists if the root of the problem is not solved.

This is just like the free 500emp exploit. Just lock characters or delete them if they're under X level over X months (e.g. under Lvl20 and 3 months). This may not eradicate name-selling but atleast no one would waste their time leveling hundreds of them. If they want to reserve a name, then they have to put effort in leveling it up.

To be honest, reserving names should be disallowed too. If you're not using it, then you have no right to stop other players from using it. Reserving names is just like reserving a table in a restaurant or reserving a seat in a football match for a customer you know will never come. Who freaking reserve for months/years for free?

If you awakened the skill with Purification gear, only the Option skill cube will still apply.
Most of the skill cubes are included in the awakened skill anyway though.

Permanent ban offence.
There are certain people that hoard names to an extent of having hundreds of names, hundreds of names new users could of had. Imagine seeing interesting names in the game, in hubs and dungeons instead of some schmucks storing them and selling for absorbent amounts.

@TheQuilla said:
We could use the Account Name system someone suggested a while ago, basicly you get whatever name you want and it displays Name+(Account Name) on the chat. Kinda like the one that's already in Crew chat but I dont know if it's possible, EME please do this if it is possible! (This would Basicly Eliminate Name selling too)

Put it in the best manageable way. No sort of bots can detect if the account and the names within are stored for selling or reserved by the player for further use.

Godspeed on EME making the right decision.

I do agree with Hasey. There are no rules, and unfortunately, is accepted on games for in game currency. I'm not really surprise since this type of selfish marketing is everywhere I go. I still feel disgusted paying for a name, but in the end, it IS the name that I wanted as long the price isn't over the top.

Maybe TheQuillas' idea would be a better choice if no one's complaining about everyone having the same name, but different account name.

Eme merging maintenance allowing both Regions(Majority will be NAs) to stay up 24 hours to snipe, or reserve new names for those who haven't log in at least six months(or quit? correct me if I'm wrong) giving whoever logs in first come, first serve basis should've never happen.

I would have to say it should be a ban-able offence regardless of if you sell for real money or in game gold, your still profiting off of it.

Couple of problems I see with it are that you just end up with players just creating alts just to store names that could otherwise go to new or existing players. And just like with the recent merge people will just abuse the system to get names with the intention of selling them to the people they originally had them. Why should you have to pay to get a name? Names should either be freed up every so often or if a name is on an inactive account you can request to free it up and use it.

Secondly is the price how do you judge a price on a name one could go for 10m the next could go for 200m or even 500m but then how can you guarantee that there was no real money being involved in the deal. While I know most wont involve real money there is still a chance of it happening.

Thirdly is that most deals are made on discord where EME have no access to and so if there is any real money involved, scamming or other issues they cant monitor message logs and such. To me if your going to allow the selling of names it should done via the forums private message so if anything does go wrong you at least EME can get to the bottom of it.

Lastly is the chance you may buy a name and it getting sniped from you. This can be either from the seller telling a third party when the name is free to snipe it or just some random person being there at the right time to get it. The buyer losses out as the seller has done there part of the deal and since its not an official sale I doubt anything will be done about it though the seller may lose some reputation.

Just quickly some of my thoughts on the subject.

Ah, les français... Jamais content. Cmon, juste dites que vous êtes pas bons en anglais. Calice, c'est pas dur. Le langue française avec ses conjugaisons difficiles, les prépositions, les conjonctions... Toute la chiasse. L'anglais c'est super facile. À part si vous n'avez pas les cordes vocales pour la parler bien sûr. De plus, l'anglais contenue dans Closers n'est, sincèrement, très simple. Les «textes» ou «descriptions» que vous ne comprenez pas, en fait, les gens qui parlent anglais ne les comprendront pas plus. Vous avez de l'anglais à l'école? J'espère que oui. Calice. T'es pas obligé de toujours rester dans ta zone de confort. Dégage de là! Ce n'est pas parce que VOUS, alors que l'anglais est supposé être la langue universelle, avez mal appris(on suppose) cette langue que EnMasse devra en payer les frais.

Ps:
L'anglais est encore plus facile pour les gens parlant le français car c'est L'ALPHABET!!!!!!! Oui, le truc avec abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.

Tabarnak