Seriously though, I have mixed feelings about this. I think it’s good to work out a solution to name shortages, and prevent the need for name squatting (something I’ve never done and never intend to do). I also have concerns about how easy it will be to differentiate between Syp, Syp, Syp, and Syp… if e.g. they all wear the same costume, will there be some visual indicator? Will we see the @ handle with the name floating over their head? If not, I can see some serious problems with griefers working to sully Syp’s good name.

No, I mean the other Syp, obviously.

On the other hand, it’s not like it doesn’t have ANY precedence in comics. Like Superman vs. red Superman vs. green Superman. Good Spiderman and Bad Spiderman. Clones, the same hero from an alternate universe, etc.

On the other hand, I agree that making names only account specific kind of takes away the uniqueness of your name. Like you said, your cool, unique name becomes another option for the uncreative. I might be Raegn on one game but if there’s 10 other Raegn’s running around… does it really matter?

It makes me wonder how they’ll separate out the people with multiple names when it comes to grouping. There has to be some easily identifiable differentiation tag so I know that “Darkfire” (1) isn’t the same as “Darkfire” (2). I just hope it’s that people’s name plates don’t become muddled with account tags.