Personally, there’s no reason to have names at all if they aren’t even going to be shown basically at all. First the names on the leaderboards and the usernames were switched making the character name smaller leading it to be not so noticeable as before but that whole thing really isn’t a complaint. If this were to happen, the names of our characters would basically be meaningless except for the player when differentiating files.
Also, all of the NPCs in the game will be using personalized names so it would be really weird to see avatars roaming around with names such as noobcat1273 or Xxpartyboy22xX in the game because realistically a lot of players have made their accounts with bad usernames. Also, isn’t one whole point of the names being created was so that it would feel as if your character was apart of that world that you’re playing in instead of seeming like an alien foreigner named by Elon Musk?
If Vetex would really like usernames in the game, he should have it to where both the character name and the username is shown since I understand that it would make tracking exploiters easier, but character names should still to be shown on top of the character.
Idk I can’t really think of a reason to show file names about other players. The only one you should care about is yours, and obviously you won’t see it above your own head. For other people it’s just useless, I’m not planning to call people by their file name anytime soon if I can easily avoid it and it would make any overhead UI way too big for absolutely no reason. Plus again, it make identification a pain, which could have been ok in WoM for immersion and the whole meeting random wizards thing but isn’t really a thing when everyone spawns at the same place with the same goal in a linear storyline.
Now if you want to say that the file name is useless, yeah sure I won’t deny that. However the whole system is already there with thousands of names to choose from so might as well keep it I guess?
It’s not like if players were really supposed to represent the general population in AO since npcs are a lot more significant and not randomized unlike in WoM. You were basically supposed to be a random wizard born at a random place, roaming around aimlessly (meaning you were more or less a citizen npc too) while it’s not the case in the revamp.
