For the glory of global chat of course!

It’s going to be even worse with the F2P weekend. Tens of thousands of names used by people who won’t play the game in the future.

It’ll reach the point where we just use random letters + numbers, fohi2894y1npw.

Because it’s funny

Ok I’ll admit, I’m part of the problem.

I used my entire roster to take names I’d use on the first week the beta opened, and I just delete them and make a new one every time I want to use the name.

You guys are just uncreative. I got:

BurwinAypii & Hexibitionist

just today.

Game is good but GGG has some ideas from the 90’s.

Unique names, the trade system with a external site and goes on.

It’s little things that would improve the quality but they choose to not do it.

actually crazy that this is a thing

so u want me to remember HeyIGotDPs#123 HeyIGotDs#3553 if i want to whisper someone.

I can’t figure out why it’s not locked to seasonal unique names. If I want a name I couldn’t use last season but the person who took it first doesn’t delete that character I’ll never get to use it

my names are always meme names with my friends, i didnt know anyone cared about their IGN

Names expire if you don’t login for long enough and someone else requests it, so “a name nobody else has ever picked in the history of the game” isn’t accurate.

Nice try xXZanastoesniffer69Xx!

I just can’t find words to describe what I’m feeling reading this post and comments, I just can’t.

To inspire some creativity and not have every single character ever created named “Nutsack”.

No but for real I think it’s because there is a whisper system and potential in scams happening if someone gets a whisper from a malicious actor pretending to be a close friend by using their characters name.

I actually like the unique names

Someone stole my name GlobalOnePriceChecker and still the game launched and I’m still mad.

You gotta feel the weight

Just give yourself two names with a space between. Lots of possibilities there.

give me numbers and I’m good that’s been bugging me for years

Agreed. Its such a problem trying to find a name that works. And its only going to get worse and worse. Instead of just slapping a few numbers after and letting anyone be named what they want

While I totally agree and understand that this problem will only continue to get worse and worse as the game ages it’s important to know that GGG doesn’t care because the whales don’t care.

Players who spend thousands of hours on PoE/PoE2 don’t treat it as an RPG and create a “character”, they’re just making a build for a league. The name is meaningless to them, purely a means to an end. Might as well just have every character represented by the account name.

Because you can be scammed during trade.

do you guys not have like 80 ocs you’re naming your characters after

SaddamHussein was taken so i picked RealSaddamHussein

I got MoTeO but was annoyed that ThereThere was already taken.

I was shockingly able to get MakeMeASandWitch.

idk man i booted up the game, stared at character creation for a couple minutes, typed out TUDD_BRUNTENGER, and it let me in just fine

I like it.

I like having unique names. And if you can’t find a good original name it honestly is mostly a lack of creativity.

NOPE.

I don’t want to see another character with a name I chose 13+ years ago running around as xyz01.

Not my problem you want to name your characters common names.

Same goes for PoE2.

First thing I did when logging in was make 24 characters to reserve all the names I like that were available.

[removed]

I agree. I wasn’t feeling the latest d4 season and I had a punny name for PoE2 that I wanted to use. So I fired it up, created a new character and couldn’t use the name I wanted. Bubble burst, vibe killed, went and played other games.

To avoid potential confusion in trade.

Immangine evrything IS named jack…. Then you ASK Jack If Hes Just AS insignificant as all other Jacks, the all of them answer…. Do you know wich one was the one u asked?

Because it would be a huge pain in the ass for trade.

Because it gives having a cool name meaning. Your name is inconsequential if you can pick literally whatever you want. When you manage to get a cool name that is actually unique, it stands out. Nobody cares if your character is named Diablo or Lilith in Diablo 4. If you have the character named Diablo in D2 you’d be getting IRL dollar offers in the hundreds or thousands back in the day, and having it was a prideful thing.

If you had the name Atziri in PoE, you might think it was cool and be proud. If everyone names their character Atziri, the name is meaningless.

Non issue, name your characters based on league (and build type of you reroll)

HarmiROTA(skillname)

I decided to try the F2P weekend, installed, went to character creation, chose my class, then tried 20 different names and variations and every single one was already taken… quit the game and uninstalled on the spot.

Thanks but no thanks. I couldn’t even enter numbers or other characters to help, and there were no hints.

What a dumb way to piss off your customers before they even get to play.

Why are unique names still a thing in 2025?