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I don't think you get it, but name sellers will be the ones getting those rare names first. So you're screwed either way.
I do agree with you though, eme shouldn't be striving to make name holders happy. I wish they did a server merge already and the biggest reason against it atm is "muh names". But that's another topic.
hhhmmm not just that or dare I say much less the biggest reason, think max character count and such that were a pain in the back during last merge. Anyway like you said this is another topic.
To this one now:
I could open up the hypothesis that both the ones that hold the original name, and the ones that want that name, are a minority. How many people are actually unable to use a name they want and didn't alter it somehow to fit? Like, I made a Mystic called Nissan.Skyline.Gtr in AV (hue, epic car tho), but before that I've seen a Priest named Skyline.Biturbo somewhere. Same car, two names, two characters.
My 1st character for that matter: Kuuchan. Was supposed to be Kudryavka.Noumi, wasn't free (when last wipe came I rushed to get it tho), but just used her nickname. And so it goes, I'm impressed OP's names weren't actual anime stuff, it's usually the ones that get taken and fought over.
The ones that hold the name and come back to see it changed, how many would actually feel pissed enough to give up coming back after more than a year?
Point being: everyone involved on this is a minority, and in the end, it happens to just be too little to require attention sadly.
And like many of you said, I agree deeply that name hoarders have to be dealt with. It's a dumb thing in my opinion, but the actual issue is the ease of scamming someone. Too much "have faith in me" to be worth the risk and the bother support reporting a scam about a practice you shouldn't even be doing to begin with (correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't name selling a quite gray area ToS wise?).
It's sadly always easy to contour any restrictions other than heavy chat moderation (that too even, but harder...). Like, I can imagine many countermeasures and at the same time see their weaknesses and how to contour them.
so 50 names get wiped your saying 25 will be mad and 75 happy , as id assume you wipe 50 you would have 50 mad and 50 happy
as for the email , well I was one on hiatus when they did the FF merge as due to where I was stuck with work and no internet there and I never got an email either
some times its a little hard to be stuck in the middle of nowhere and the only communication you get it when the next supply truck roles thru
that way name hoarders will have to work hard to keep all their names.
also after they are 65 the account needs to be online for 1 hour a week/month whatever.
What if you go on holiday for a month w/o your PC then? lol
Couldn't agree more. I have several good names(some 65), and I wouldn't want to lose a name to someone else. First come, first serve.
When they've cleared names before (both the mass name wipe and the Fey Forest server merge) names were only wiped from characters that hadn't logged in within the past year. Level did not matter, so if you were saving names on low level characters you could simply log in once and protect the name. It served solely to get names off of inactive accounts that would never be seen again.
The only time people really "lost" names was in the server merge, and they would lose names if the other player:
1. Had logged in within the last year
and
2. Had more playtime on the character
So, even in this case, they didn't likely lose their name to a player who played less than them and didn't also deserve to have their name. In my case, I got names from the server merge that were inactive on other servers, because I had them on my account.
Name wipes aren't really an issue for players who are actively playing. They could always increase the range (say, make it 2 years of inactivity) for names to be wiped. The main purpose of name wiping is to get names off of inactive accounts, not necessarily to fight name hoarding/selling which will always exist. Imo, it's better for a name to be on an account for someone to sell than for a name to be on an account that will never log in again. At least in one scenario, there is a chance of the name being used.