Excraft

I'm not here to persuade or win anyone over to anything, just as no one else is here to win me over. I'm having a discussion and offering my personal viewpoint, just like everyone else. If that's alright with you of course? ^ This is the point I think a lot of people are missing and why I believe this effort was a waste of time. Seems like a lot of time spent on something that's going to offer very little, if any return in the long run. Everyone should be prepared that level 50s are going to be added to this since there's no doubt going to be a lot of crying about names not getting released even after this goes live.

Correct. That's my opinion. I never said it was fact. Good try though. 🙂 And yes, they have more information but for some reason won't really share too much of it. 😉 You missed the point. The argument for all of this is "use it or lose it". Ok, well if you aren't logged in and playing your characters, then their names should be immediately available to be swiped as soon as you log off. You aren't using them, so they should be fair game. No need for timers. But it's ok, I understand that it's fine to swipe a name, so long as it's the other person who loses out. Again, this should have been based on account, not character, inactivity. Someone who's got a lot of alts but still actively playing can be messaged to negotiate for the release of a name. If they account is inactive for years, go for it and release all the names on the account. Better yet, take the time to code this properly so names are a combination of account-character, like Cryptic did. It's my understanding the folks here already understand what the hurdles are with that. Surely they are smart enough and capable enough to do that. Fix that and this drama about name swiping nonsense becomes a non-issue.

I'd agree so long as any character you have that isn't actively being played at the moment can have the name swiped from you. You aren't using it, right?

LOL! Absolutely hilarious how far off the mark you are here. Like, not even remotely close. My "actual problem" is that this effort to code this nonsense was a colossal waste of time. Seems like quite a lot of folks here are getting their hopes up that the name they're hoping for is going to get freed up and they're only going to be disappointed. Chances are very unlikely they will get the one they're looking for, and there's more than likely going to be even more complaining once this goes live when by chance someone else grabs a name first. It's great to say "2 million names!" will get freed up. How many of those names are gibberish? If they aren't words people would be looking for, they can free up 200 million names and it won't make a difference. You're being dazzled by numbers without knowing all of the information. In all my years playing this game, I think maybe once there was a name that I tried was taken, and at that point I used this little known thing called a Thesaurus to come up with something else. If by chance a name I tried here, I'd do the same. I certainly wouldn't come crying on the forums about how my life is over because I couldn't name my character SuperCoolMcShooterGuy and demand that the owner of it release it to me because I THINK they may be inactive.

Ok true but how many people are making dozens of free accounts and filling up every character slot on every server? Pretty safe to say there's less than a handful if any at all doing that. How many of those are "desirable" names and not just gibberish?

Yeah this is true, but you can infer a lot of things based on that post.

It's not 2 million accounts. It's 2 million character names. There's no mention of how many individual player accounts are in that number. You'll note they won't tell anyone how many of those names are on accounts that haven't been played in over a year or more. If the name is attached to an account (not character) is still active, the owner can easily be messaged to negotiate the release of a name. If the account hasn't been logged into for a year or more, by all means free those up. More than likely the player isn't coming back. There's also mention of how many of these "2 million names" are actual words and not just random jibberish. Nor is there any mention of what defines a "big deal" as stated in the post.

There's nothing to counter. I had already said (repeatedly) both parties could've communicated better.

It isn't. If you actually read and understood what I wrote, I said the leader forming that TF could've communicated better too. That still isn't an excuse for not asking basic questions if you aren't sure when joining a team. Nice try though 😉 That's your expectation which others clearly don't have and why people should communicate with each other if they aren't certain.

Different opinions and viewpoints aren't exactly welcomed with open arms here and the mods here absolutely hide stuff all the time. They have since the beginning. Not saying they shouldn't do it, it's their server so they can do whatever they want. Just pointing out that this kind of behavior isn't unique to reddit.

Oh please. Like typing "Hi, is this a speed TF?" or "what diff are we running at?" is such a hardship. If you can't be arsed to do that much, you deserve what you get. ^ That's it exactly.

That's true. You're wrong on this topic for sure since you're partly to blame for your own predicament. You (not the team leader) made an assumption on what other people think, how other players communicate and you got burned for not taking the time to chat. You didn't take a few seconds before starting the TF to communicate with your fellow team members, ask questions or let others know what you were after. That's 100% on you. This isn't excusing the team leader at all. Of course they could've communicated better too. Communication goes both ways though. Since your thread title is "Quit Another TF", sounds like you've had issues joining teams before and maybe you need to ask yourself what you can do better to communicate what you're after to other people. Maybe that'll help make your experience more enjoyable for you and you'll abandon less teams. ^ Spot on.

Right so it's always everyone else who's at fault and never you. 🤣 And who exactly is "we" in this case? What about all of these mythical new players who aren't familiar with your approved version of "shorthand chat"? People aren't mind readers. Like I said, that person could've communicated better about how they were rolling but you also could've asked. Instead you just chose to leave the rest of the team hanging because 7 other people didn't want to play your way. That's not cool.

How do you know they're really new?

Not defending the person who set up the TF, but you making assumptions about the setup is a you problem. Yeah, maybe they could've advertised it better but you also could've and should have asked before joining the team to find out what kind of run it was. Just ditching everyone else on the team is bad form.

What new players?

Like I said above, some people just can't help themselves. They're all over the place too. Sad really. Just /ignore them and move on.

Best news I've heard all week. This made my day. Thanks! 😉

Probably trying to make up for the abysmal crap they've been putting out of late. lol

Yeah, sadly this happens more often than not. There's quite a lot of people here who want to judge others. It's doing more harm than good for player retention nor is it helping attract new people. Word of stuff like this gets around for sure. Sorry you had to experience it first hand. Can't say I really give a crap about you either. I do find your thread here hysterical though. I mean, it's hilariously hypocritical making a thread criticizing a fellow player for their lack of imagination and creativity in making a clone of a favorite character while saying you "get as close as you can" to your favorite character. "Rules for thee but not for me" is alive and well here for sure. I get it though, it's only bad if someone does it. 😉

They are very, very, very, very easy to identify through their posts here on the forums when this topic comes up every so often. They're also super easy to spot in game on various chat channels when they're criticizing another player for their character name or costume design or biography. The rule gives them the bludgeon they want to force everyone to conform to their warped point of view.

You realize that I don't disagree with the rules here on this, right? If not, I'm happy to re-quote all the posts I've made that stated that. Depends on the motive. You've got people here who don't care what others do - which I believe to be most folk, but they'll follow the rules (however silly). You've also got quite a few anal retentive types who have absolutely no qualms about expressing their complete disdain of anyone who doesn't meet their utterly distorted views on creativity and originality and love to belittle and badger those who disagree. They just can't help themselves from being total aholes. There is a difference.

It's not fearmongering, at least not from me. I'm just going by what I've seen for myself and have read here and through in-game chat. I don't blame anyone for reporting.

Sure they can. We could all get struck by a meteor too. Doesn't make it something to be overly concerned about.

Welcome back. I hope you enjoy your time here.