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Subject: Will we ever be able to change our usernames?
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I know for a fact that there are plenty of long-time members who almost practically resent their usernames.

Take me for instance. My first username here was "FatMarshall", but I ended up switching my emails around. Unaware that you can't change the WLID associated with the account, I was forced to make another account on Bungie.net with my new WLID, and since "FatMarshall" was taken at the time with my older WLID, "FatM" was birthed.

Will we ever be able to change our usernames in the future? Would you support such an addition or feature?

  • 08.20.2012 7:51 PM PDT

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How many times has this thread been made in the last week? -_-

  • 08.20.2012 7:52 PM PDT
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Posted by: FatM
Will we ever be able to change our usernames in the future? Would you support such an addition or feature?

I know for a fact that it'd confuse the hell out of me. Take gamertag changes for instance, I never know who is who when that happens.

  • 08.20.2012 7:53 PM PDT
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Posted by: Avatar Korra
How many times has this thread been made in the last week? -_-
I wasn't aware that this thread had been duplicated multiple times on this forum.

  • 08.20.2012 7:53 PM PDT

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Posted by: FatM
Posted by: Avatar Korra
How many times has this thread been made in the last week? -_-
I wasn't aware that this thread had been duplicated multiple times on this forum.

  • 08.20.2012 7:57 PM PDT

Break down, every single one of you.

Probably not.

  • 08.20.2012 8:00 PM PDT

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I swear these threads are being made by an organized group spam attack, but instead of idiotic threads, we have the username thread.

In case you didn't see this

Posted by: Achronos
The reason you can't has to do with security - same reason why you can't change your Live ID on bungie.net.

Maybe at some point. I might also be able to bypass the security problem on changing names by allowing Bungie Pro users to change their bungie.net user names every so often. The Live ID issue is more tricky, because of several external factors.


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.



Posted by: Achronos
your complaints have been heard.



[Edited on 08.20.2012 8:22 PM PDT]

  • 08.20.2012 8:19 PM PDT

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Why is everyone so interested in this all of a sudden?

  • 08.20.2012 8:26 PM PDT
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No.

  • 08.20.2012 8:32 PM PDT
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But I don't want to change my username!

  • 08.20.2012 8:59 PM PDT

Swag punks, fu­­ck off!

I don't think we'll be able to.

  • 08.20.2012 11:58 PM PDT

Vengeance only leads to an ongoing cycle of hatred.

I wish I could change my username to my gamertag...

  • 08.21.2012 11:33 AM PDT
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I would have to agree that being able to change your username would be nice. Just as an example, I didn't like my original name so I made this account. :/

  • 08.21.2012 11:38 AM PDT

!

Hopefully it will be possible to change your username at some point.

  • 08.21.2012 11:42 AM PDT
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They asked what I wanted to be when I grew up;

I wrote down happy.

They told me I didn't understand the assignment;

I told them they don't understand life. - John Lennon

Well, Bungie knows. So, we'er going to have to wait. I don't regret my username. Kurokawa means "Black River" in Japanese. And it's my last name.

  • 08.21.2012 11:46 AM PDT