These two points are exactly why i'm against it. I've got a massive anxiety problem and today i just saw the warning with a few days left on a character i was specifically saving for when my brother who've i've been trying to get into the game starts. That freaked me out to see a warning like that especially since i came up with some names that i was really proud of, alongside some names i was surprised i was able to even get. Some of my names are gibberish, but i have had gibberish names taken before, even just within a day in certain instances. Like on Mario Maker 2, i didnt realize that game had its own profile naming thing unique to it instead of using your actual profile name and on the very 2nd day that game was out, my gibberish name was already taken.
it just adds unecessary stress to me to have to constantly log onto each character within a varying time table just to make sure my characters identities arent taken. stress like that is the whole reason why i never got into the housing system in Final Fantasy 14 (which for those who dont know you have to go into your house once a month or you lose your plot that you bought), and to see something like that implemented on something as central as just your character's names really kills any desire to keep playing this game for me if i gotta stress out about logging into each of my 10 or so characters. And since i tend to binge games, drop em for a while, binge em again, rinse and repeat, its a very real threat i'd have to worry about if i kept playing this game.
imo, if the devs are so worried about people sitting on names, why even let people have 1000 per server in the first place? the chance of someone having anywhere near that many active characters is incredibly slim. One solution i can think of is have a middle ground where the more characters you have the stricter the log in policy is, so more casual players like me who just want a few alts wont be caught up with people who make hundreds or even thousands with the hope of sitting on names for whatever reason.
