So with release just around the corner now a lot of people are upset by what just was announced with server release times and also that naming is a Global thing. What this means is EU Servers are going to get first chance at names and this is upsetting many people. So I just wanted to make a quick video discussing it and also letting people know my thoughts on the matter.
Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/newworldgame/comments/pupocj/dev_response_on_player_names/
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8am CEST – 11pm PT
8am CEST – 2am ET
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When I recorded this I wasn't positive on the exact time for PT and I decided to just cover ET and PST from the 8am CEST for you guys
Time zone Breakdown:
8am CEST – 11pm PT
8am CEST – 2am ET
I love the fact that I could be the only one in the world with my name. I've played videos games for decades, I'm no stranger to having to tack stuff onto my name because the shortest form of it is already taken. I've got a long list of names that I can comfortably use. This opportunity to get the shortest form of my name, and be the only one in the world that has it, is just a great bonus for playing early.
Also, unfortunately for me, the devs did say on reddit that they are looking into a revised version of the naming system, but it won't be implemented before launch, so all this controversy is for nothing, people will be able to get the names they want eventually.
I'm used to naming 20+ alts with multiple attempts and various spellings in Black Desert Online.
Which is kinda ridiculous when we already have a unique family name but that's how that game is.
So doing the same with just one is ez stuff, for me at least.
Already have several names picked out so will NOT be one of those flooding EU >.<
I realize it kinda matter more for company names I guess, but just have to roll my eyes a bit about people actually freaking out about this.
Or how many people actually are I'm not so sure, I mostly avoid Reddit lol
Save your name by all means but dont play on the EU servers and fuck up our launch morning.
I have to disagree with the part, that they should have made it to launch everywhere at the same time, because that's usually a US time and that means in the middle of the night for Europe, like it is with most game releases.
On the other side, I agree that the naming thing sucks, they should just have made the names not globally locked, but rather regional (e. g. names unique to each region).
As a side note, I find it funny how much this enrages a lot of the US players this time, but it's totally fine, if others have to suffer this issues at nearly all game releases … just my two cent.
The big advantage of global name is that once server transfers are in place you will not lose your name if you want to move the server and in the future if they have to merge servers again everyone will keep their names. So personally I like it very much global names
Well I'm from EU and I'm fine with this. Can't always please everyone!
Yea servers a fucked, like anyone is gonna pass on a chance to fuck around for 2 hrs before their server launches 😀
people that are straight up crying over this need to go touch some grass honestly
This is a none issue, if you don’t have 4-5 gaming tags, you are kind of shooting yourself in the foot. Be unique but have multiple names
I'm not sure what time zone you are, but EU opens at 2am my time, South America & Australia open 5 hours later at 7am my time, NA East opens 1 hour later at 8am my time, and NA West opens 3 hours after that at 11am my time. So yea you have a 5, 6, or 9 hour wait after EU opens. This MMO is definitely different, all the World Firsts should be on EU now that they are 5, 6, or 9 hours ahead of everyone else, then the naming issue with it being global, I can see the benefits of the Staggered Launch, but there are lots of negatives that weren't accounted for.
Does anyone know what the requirements are for names? Minimum/maximum characters, letters only or can you use symbols and numbers, etc?
1st never thought there could be such an outrage, because of the naming. 2nd who actually thought the pre-order bonuses werent account bound? That is beyond me
The issue isn't as simple as my name is taken.
Company/Guild names are also global. This means people will be overpopulating eu servers till lvl 8. Create companies to save name.
Now to pass the remaining time, the theory is these companies might take multiple territories, increase taxes and leave. It will take 3 days before those territories can be taken back
you know how often I've had this issue as an EU player. NA is usually first and now they think it's a controversy xd
7pm New Zealand time, it's alllllll good
EU nr one!👌🏻
At least we know why now, because of the Valhalla Server.
You can literally delete your character as soon as you create it and still save your name for na launch
It sucks it getting released on the start of a work week, Going to get so behind the curb of all the other people joining. Ohwell hopefully be able to find a guild a little later on to play with lol.
You're not gonna lose sleep? I am because I have to reserve my name at 2am
this isn't a Controversy, get a f-ing grip
It seemed that a lot of the misinformation about losing your Pre-Order bonus was being propagated by EU reddit users desperately trying to discourage anyone else from logging into EU servers and causing EU server disruptions. They were very combative and insulting towards anyone that was planning to try to get equal chance at preferred names.
Also: I would not just set an alarm and try at the actual server launch times.. Make sure you are there a hour or longer watching for when the servers go live. In Beta they went live before the designated start times. If your name has any serious meaning and you want the best chance at getting it, then be prepared to monitor servers going live.
What is nice is that you can just hope on the very 1st ones that come up and not have to wait till a specific server or group comes up. Not all servers will come up at the same time.
I am 1am time zone that servers are scheduled to come up.. I will be looking for servers to come up from well before 10am (So 3 hours early) even if the 1st one does not come up until 1am – that 3 hours is the price you pay to try and get in the door first lol (kinda like camping out before the doors open) I will just be catching some Zzzzs before 10pm my time. Once done I can get some rest before starting my day.
This and the staged launch is their first screw-up.
As long as no one else is going to use the name "Big Girls Blouse" I'm good
my work start when server is live in EU so i will be rougly 8 hour late to the launch
Not sure if this is normal for all MMOs but yall seem to get mad over the dumbest shit xd "contraversy"
Considering I never use the same name twice on characters from game to game its a non issue for me.
I mean it's just a username, not a big deal tbh
Pretty simple on why they are not going to have all the servers launch at once: They're concerned there could be problems if everyone tries to login at once. Less stress on the server populations.
Seems like this was done to prevent the servers overloading. Same reason they picked a midweek day and 8AM. I wouldn't know why names are not regional
Why care about the name?
I'm with you. I have plenty of name options to choose from so I am not stressed by the naming issue. I do wish they would release all the servers at the same time though. I am in Australia so i am used to being up in the middle of the night for game launches. Even though our servers here are launching at 9 pm I want to play on a US West Coast server so that makes it 1 am for me and I start work at 6 30 am. So I probably will wait till I get home from work. I figure the worst of the rush will be gone by then anyway. As long as I can get into the same faction as my friend so we can be in the same guild that is all I care about.
Yanks trying to take the credit even in this game 😂🤦♂️
I'm really not understanding the argument for "I wish all servers launched at the same time" statement, because the WORLD is not on the same time clock. So even if all servers went live at the same moment, it's a completely different time of day for everyone, thus posing the same problems.
Got my names