Posted on 05 February 2015 - 04:11 PM
1. Why did Microsoft not charge for them? They could of easily made some money if they charged $5 per name change, people would of paid for it too.2. I think a lot of you will regret changing your name. Your IGN is what people recognize you by, and what makes you different from everyone else. Yeah that 2-3 letter name is cool looking, but now wtf are people going to call you by, or even recognize you anymore. You'll tell your immediate friends that you changed your account, but anyone else won't know it's you. Maybe you've had a bad reputation and wanna try to hide that under a new name, if that's the case I guess you made the right choice, but I feel a lot of you rushed into a name change that you'll regret very soon. I'll put it this way, I've been playing Minecraft since 2010 with the username BurntCactus, I have people from 3 years ago on small servers notice me on Badlion. If I were to change my name nobody would recognize me, none of my old acquaintances would know who I am. Maybe an IGN has bigger meaning to me then to you guys, but yeah that lowercase name of yours with an underscore might of been ugly, but it has characteristic, and in at least my case sentimental value.
In short, you guys should of kept your names, because now we gotta call you by a 3 letter word that's similar to 50043850348 other people instead of your unique name.
I was inspired to make this post because of @Xew ;-; y u gotta do dat
Posted on 05 February 2015 - 04:19 PM
I agree, for me my IGN has built up a lot of reputation. I would only change my name if the name Marcus magically was available.Posted on 05 February 2015 - 04:41 PM
I agree with this posts but in some cases people call themselves xxEliteskillaxx32 and I would understand why they would namechangePosted on 05 February 2015 - 04:42 PM
I totally agree. The cool looking names at this point won't even be special anymore because everybody will have them.Posted on 05 February 2015 - 04:48 PM
I just changed the capitalizationPosted on 05 February 2015 - 04:57 PM
Danteh ;_; I'm changing my name back in 30 daysPosted on 05 February 2015 - 05:12 PM
Identity and reputation are the two things that keep me from changing my name.I'm Morsinius, and that's my identity. I'm not going to shorten it to something like Mors_ or mrs, because those are simply nicknames. "Morsinius" is what I'm really known as, not "Mors."
Posted on 05 February 2015 - 05:39 PM
BurntCactus wrote
I was inspired to make this post because of @XEW ;-; y u gotta do dat
LOL i laughed so hard when he told me
Posted on 05 February 2015 - 06:42 PM
10K wrote
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Posted on 05 February 2015 - 07:25 PM
Pisses me off seeing people change their ign to random words, I saw some kid on reddit bragging he got clock. Why the fuck would you want to be known as clock!?Posted on 05 February 2015 - 07:53 PM
BurntCactus wrote
A lot of people started bought accounts yesterday
So much that their system was overloaded
Posted on 05 February 2015 - 07:57 PM
Never changing this account's nameI can understand someone's alt getting a name change to something "OG"
but never for a main account that everyone knows you as
Posted on 05 February 2015 - 08:06 PM
redpanda99 wrote
Sooo true i agree with you on that, so many people rushed to get stupid random words that they THOUGHT were cool but are really stupid and pointless. I saw a kid with the name "Shower" like why the fuck would you go around with the name shower. I think people should have actually put thought into their name and made it something they like, not something that would get them attention if its cool or not.
Posted on 05 February 2015 - 08:17 PM
Darcyod > darcyMost people I've talked to wont have an issue identifying me if they knew me, but I can understand what you are saying.
Posted on 05 February 2015 - 08:44 PM
BurntCactus wrote
10K wrote...
Hello 10k, are you by chance related to 1k, 2k, 3k, 4k, 5k, 6k, 7k, 8k 9k, 11k, 12k, 13k, 14k, 15k, 16k, 17k, 18k, and 19k?
Posted on 05 February 2015 - 09:15 PM
I strongly disliked nygiants_10 as a name. I chose NY_ as my new name because people almost always call me "NY" in OCN mumble and in game. It's still relevant since I live in New York. Plus, I really like the aesthetic look of underscores in general. I have very little sentimental value, or in my opinion, reputation, behind nygiants_10.If anything, I rushed into choosing my name back in 2012…nygiants_10 was because my friend was yanksrock101 and I needed a quick screen name; figures a sports team would be good enough.
Posted on 05 February 2015 - 09:26 PM
@JacobArnold ;——–;Posted on 05 February 2015 - 09:47 PM
BurntCactus wrote
Posted on 05 February 2015 - 09:58 PM
Sunn wrote
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Posted on 05 February 2015 - 10:03 PM
I changed my name because that was my name for years. I despised it, if you don't like it then you don't have to but it's my choice @cringiecake