POE2 Character Names?

Please tell me that, unlike POE1, POE2 uses our account name and we can name our characters whatever we want. This is isn't 2003 anymore.

I pretty sure Johnathan confirmed POE2 DOES NOT use our account discriminators for names. And names in POE2 will NOT be affected by names in POE2 and will be first come first serve.

The biggest travesty of PoE 2 thus far is the archaic naming system they continue to use.

The last couple times I tried to name a character in PoE 1 I literally just pressed random buttons after 5 minutes of failing to find a decent character name. It's so bad. Shocking that they think this is adequate for PoE 2.

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Ain_Soph_Aur#3799 wrote:

I pretty sure Johnathan confirmed POE2 DOES NOT use our account discriminators for names. And names in POE2 will NOT be affected by names in POE2 and will be first come first serve.

Cool we will never be rid of namesquatting and all that nonsense...

I have a family of McFlatulences and one of McFopdoodles ;)

I think this was my biggest disappointment trying this game.
This isn't from 1990/early 2000s - there shouldn't be this sort of limit anymore.

Adding my voice to the choir.

For the love of the Gods GGG let us have the name we WANT!

100% the thing I hate most about either poe game. Literally took an hour to find a name for my monk that wasn't taken, and it's genuinely gonna be a huge turnoff for new players when the game goes to normal release

Every name taken.. Is this old battlenet ptsd? Where people sold names for $?... really lol this is bad.

What's even more fd is you can't put other language characters in the name like:

Eĉstâsy (to make it different, example)

It will count this name as the name Ecstasy, so no matter what variants you do it will be taken.(lot of choices)

This was a baffling design choice to bring into the new game. You’d think they would use this as a chance to undo some of the long lasting issues the first game had. Letting anyone use the name they want would have been preferable, you only see others in hubs briefly so it shouldn’t be a big deal to run into dupes occasionally.