i was thinking and im not entirely sure if this was brought up before, i have searched and found nothing so im going to go ahead and post this.
does anyone else think if we already purchased the game we should be able to change our ign? i mean plenty of people could benefit from this especially those like myself with a number of numbers after there main name because the name was taken. i thought of a new name but i can not change it to what i wanted to and now im stuck with an obnoxious amount of numbers after my name.
O_o if it has can you link me please ive not heard that at all.
Well, not exactly confirmed. They have hinted at it saying it was planned but that doesn't really mean that there is a guarantee. At least that was the last I had heard on it.
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It has been asked before, about a hundred times. I find it hard to believe that you searched and found nothing; I personally have commented in several different topics on the subject so I know they're there.
The issue was first brought up well over a year ago, directly with the devs, and the reply was a very vague 'we'll look into it'. The fact that no move has been made to change it since says to me that they either decided against it or still havn't found a good way to work around all the problems it would cause. In any case, Jeb and Dinnerbone are fully aware of the situation and of player's feelings on the subject, so making yet another topic to bring it round again isn't going to make the slightest bit of difference.
i typed what i was looking for in the search bar and a bunch of unrelated topics came up, the tone of hostility in you post is highly unnecessary...
in any case i apologize for posting something that has been posted about a thousand times but in actuality if something isn't brought up more then once then you can argue that they would simply forget about it. a feature as important as this isn't even all that difficult to do since you ingame name is simply your minecraft.net user name they could simply just give you the option to change your minecraft.net username and not make an entirely new system.
If you read hostility in my comment then I appologize, that was not my intent. I was going more for mild frustration that this topic is being brought up again for the umpteenth time.
The problem lies not in the implementation of changing names, that would indeed be possible, but in the possible repercussions to online play. It could make banning griefers from servers very difficult if they could just change their username since people can already change their IPs. It would be posible to create a system to work around it but that could end up being quite laborious for server admins and would probably be more trouble than it's worth to code when they are obviously trying to concentrate on other areas of the game right now.
Exactly.
Say, player Potato griefs something. He changes his username, to, I don't know, Carrot. Everybody thinks POTATO did it, since server does not have a plugin to know that Potato is also Carrot. Carrot then griefs something, and changes username to Wheat. Nobody knows that Carrot and Potato are the same. Wheat... I don't know.... builds a TNT cannon that destroys everything, and changes username to Melon. Nobody knows Melon is Wheat. You see the problem there?
And then when the server owner bans Potato, Carrot, Wheat and Melon, and the IP they use, that player then uses a proxy to change IP, changes his name to PorkChop and is back griefing the server in about 2 minutes flat.
i was thinking and im not entirely sure if this was brought up before, i have searched and found nothing so im going to go ahead and post this.
does anyone else think if we already purchased the game we should be able to change our ign? i mean plenty of people could benefit from this especially those like myself with a number of numbers after there main name because the name was taken. i thought of a new name but i can not change it to what i wanted to and now im stuck with an obnoxious amount of numbers after my name.
yes, no?
O_o if it has can you link me please ive not heard that at all.
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i typed what i was looking for in the search bar and a bunch of unrelated topics came up, the tone of hostility in you post is highly unnecessary...
in any case i apologize for posting something that has been posted about a thousand times but in actuality if something isn't brought up more then once then you can argue that they would simply forget about it. a feature as important as this isn't even all that difficult to do since you ingame name is simply your minecraft.net user name they could simply just give you the option to change your minecraft.net username and not make an entirely new system.
I haven't read about this being confirmed O.o
Exactly.
Say, player Potato griefs something. He changes his username, to, I don't know, Carrot. Everybody thinks POTATO did it, since server does not have a plugin to know that Potato is also Carrot. Carrot then griefs something, and changes username to Wheat. Nobody knows that Carrot and Potato are the same. Wheat... I don't know.... builds a TNT cannon that destroys everything, and changes username to Melon. Nobody knows Melon is Wheat. You see the problem there?
Yep.
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http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1589368-minecraft-name-changer/page__hl__ ign#entry19507241
Also, it is a planned feature. Please do not suggest planned features.
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