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", I only recently joined Bitmob so I'm getting to many of these articles well after their posting dates. I'll have to find some of the more current ones so I can actually participate in the great dialogue that always seems to follow!
I have always been fascinated by the decisions players of MMOs make when choosing names. I have found there seem to be two major camps of name choice: first, people who name their character after an admired archetype, such as the proliferation of Legolas-ish names for bow wielding toons; and second, people who name their character for a role they will play in the gameworld, such as Healzbot or GankUVeryMuch. Both of these types of naming conventions are fairly transparent - it's the names that fall outside these two that I find particularly interesting.
For myself, I initially picked Malron for my first MMO (WoW) because I was playing as an undead and thought, if I was brought back as an animated corpse, what would my name be (Aaron + evil dead = Malron). As time progressed I got used to being called Mal in chat and vent, and that led to all my later toons in both that game and others having a Mal prefix - like Malrath and Malraze for dps types, or Malrissa for females. The funny part of this is that being called Mal over time circled around to being compared to the character of Mal Reynolds, one of the main characters on Firefly, and one of my favorite sci-fi characters ever. Coincidence, probably, but at the same time, an interesting o"
Friday, November 06, 2009
"h this article and all the comments have been fascinating. Thanks for posting this, I'm always curious what Bioware will do next, after what I felt was one of the better same-sex romances in Jade Empire. While I definitely recognize that it's important to stick to the characters you have, I do wish that they'd be more open to including same-sex romances with the emotional depth reserved for a female pc and male npc. I have gotten tired of always having to play as a female in order to feel some kind of connection to the romanc"
Wednesday, November 04, 2009
