- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
With the new site, there are plenty of new options, however there's not a way (that I've found) to change your display name. Is the ability planned to be added? It seems like a great time to add the feature, and it wouldn't be too hard either.
We can change our gamerpicture. We can change our gamerprofile. We can change the email on our .net passport. We can even change our gamertag. We can change basically everything people recognize us online by. Infact, the only thing that's needed by the site itself to track us is something most people will never see (unique ID number), much less pay attention to. Having the ability to change your display name would actually reduce some of the stress on the server. Many people register second, or even third accounts because they want to change who they're known as. This fills up the database with useless information which won't be used. How to put it in simple terms...
You have a box (the database) which 700 red and 300 blue legos (accounts) go into. Red legos are used accounts and blue ones are unused. Each lego has a unique number writen on it. So you toss all the legos into the box, then your friend tells you he needs the one with 496 written on it, but you don't know what color it is. You have to sift through each and every lego to try and find it, meaning you might need to look through 300 useless accounts before you find it. With the renaming feature, however, there might be 700 red, and only 50 blues. This reduces the number of legos looked at by 250, making the process faster.
It can be easily coded and intergrated, so why not? If would fit in perfectly at the top of the Pofile Settings page, so it's not a probelm of placement, or very advanced coding (I could do it, and I can't even drive.)
Customization is good, and Xbox and Xbox Live are all about it, why not bungie too?
*EDIT*
Figured I should add this to main post since some people never read any replies:
Maybe there should be a limit, like only once a month or two or such. It just seems silly that you can't do it at all. Seems ironic that you can change the name you play under (gamertag), but can't change your name on a forum about playing.
Regarding Impersonation:
They wouldn't be able to forge a linked gamertag, nor could they use a name already in use.[/qoute]
[Edited on 03.22.2007 1:57 PM PDT]