...or I don't want to farm a specific trial on every character over and over to 21. Not everyone wants to rush to 21. Some people like to play through the missions. Apparently, though, we don't count anymore because "you can get there in an hour, it's no big deal", or "how can you be attached to a character name you only play once a year?" is the only way you're allowed to play the game now. I rarely actually lose my temper but this policy has me so pissed I've had to rewrite this post half a dozen times because I can't express my opinion of this within the forums rules. It seems like they are catering to the "I couldn't get Hero Man as a name so there's no good names left! Wahhhhhh!" crowd. But, whatever, I get the message, don't make alts, just play one character to 50 and if you get bored only being allowed to play that way go do something else.
so your solution is to cater to "dont take the name on a character ill rarely or never end up playing! wahhhh!" Sorry i dont think you or anyone else can justify that. Lets be completely honest. if you want to argue that its that time consuming to get to level 21, how in the world are people going to have time to play the thousands of characters with desirable names?
Going to second what Killa said here. Basically you’re going the route of “Better get all these good names while they’re available before people take them. I can’t play this character 6 months down the road if this name is taken!” But then you’re complaining that you have to log that character in, never played before, for less than a minute...once a month? It’s baffling how that is too much work. I don’t know, there’s going to be thousands of excuses. I don’t see the naming thing as a bad idea at all. I’d even be for yearly or by yearly wipes of toons with more than one year of offline time. If you step away from a character for an entire year, you either quit the game, or quit that character. Let someone else have their fun also.
