- lime013
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Posted by: Achronos
Actually, the suggestion of tying it to Bungie Pro was because I thought that we'd want to gate it. It isn't about making money, it is about making sure an anonymous griefer isn't constantly changing his name. If he's a Bungie Pro subscriber, he wouldn't have been just another anonymous user.
We've moved on from that line of thinking a while ago, though. User Identity is a bigger problem that needs more than just a bandaid solution. But rest assured that the inflexibility of login names has been part of our thinking in this area; your complaints have been heard.
Posted by: POKEY CLYDE
I think the allowing Bungie Pro members to change their username every once in a while was purely for profit. There was a demand for changing usernames, there was a service on Bungie.net you could subscribe to for money (Bungie pro).
To give members incentive to subscribe to this service, Achronos and the online team were probably considering, or giving it thought to add this feature (changing of the username every once in a while) so that more users would subscribe to the service, making Bungie more profit.
With Bungie Pro being gone, I don't think this feature will be implemented, unless you pay for it.
How about you can pay about 5 bucks to change it (which will increase your profit) or allow a free one every once in a while. On the individuals profile, it will show their past user names so you can keep track or you can alternate between the names, so the original will always exist.