May we address you by your real name?

You can call me by my first name Gal which is probably hard to pronounce for most english speaking people and also others... :P

My real name is Steve Andrews and I actually prefer being called Steve to Bard! 

Feel free to call me Barb.  It's not what the b in brl stands for though (bacon, actually).  I suppose I'd be okay with Barb or bacon.  

JoHarrington: 08/04/2012 - 08:43 PM

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AJ: 07/07/2011 - 06:46 AM

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 it just goes to show that the choice of your username is just soooo important so that people can think of you as a real person, even if you are not using your real name.

For nearly a decade in Runescape, no-one could change their sign up name. Seeing as it's a game that you can (and do) play for years, this meant grown adults stuck with whatever their 12 year old self thought was cool at the time.

Then Jagex started to allow names to be changed once a month.  At first, the majority of people embraced it.  All of the Disneyfan33444 people got to be something slightly more grown up.

But as time went on, it became apparent that this wasn't cool.  When an on-line name is all your have to go on, you imbibe it with personality, memories, the history of your friendship.  When the names kept changing, we kind of lost the people behind them too.

So yes, you are right.  People do think of you as a real person, however bizarre your avatar name.

I'm Jo, by the way, on Wizzley and in life!

That's why we should choose carefully.  I had Andro [something] when I first started RS (female character). As soon as it was possible to change names I changed that last bit to Noir because I had created a different character (Cassis) with that last name. And then we have their brother Wournos who also got the last name Noir.

I've been using Wournos (mispelled version of Alieen Wuornos last name) since 2008 and I'm pondering making it a permanent name just for kicks.

You can call me either Wournos or Jay here on Wizzley. I'm not too picky.