Is the Whole Username Issue not a concern?

0cool1·12/11/2019, 6:58:39 PM·2 votes·1,296 views

Hello, Ive been playing this game for a long time... and Ive been told someone else has my profile name, therefore I must change mine. I've voiced my refusal with a riot support person, to which i was essentially told "sorry, you have to".

Putting aside the fact that It isn't right to force people to change people's usernames, I did a little research on op.gg, looking for who also shared my name... Myself and two other accounts: 0cool1; NA, Plat 4, Level 224 (ME) 0cool1; RU, not ranked, level 30 0cool1, LAS, not ranked, level 5

I am around 200 levels ahead of the other two, the Russian account is not active, and the level 5 account, while having games 7 days ago... Is level 5???

How on earth is it right to disregard the amount of time I have put into this game, and then lose my name to someone who is level 5?

I'm hoping this gets seen, thank you for reading.

11 Comments

Paroe12/11/2019, 7:09:11 PM4 votes

Username is not the same thing as display name.

You dont seem to understand what this change is and what its meant to do, so please allow me to explain; Riot games is transitioning from a localized client to a global client, and are forcing all accounts to have a UNIQUE username for the global system. This unique username will be for your GLOBAL account, allowing you to easily swap between regions and games.

It IS bull, by the way. Unique names are a thing that should have been abandoned ten years ago in favor of numerical handles. Theres a reason why discord and blizzard use #number string as their unique identifier. I, for example, have had my account since 2010. I was forced to change my username - which ive had for almost ten years - because some fragboy from ~~brazil~~ LAR got the email before me and claimed MY username.

2Charmnot2Charm12/11/2019, 7:22:52 PM1 votes

0cool1; NA, Plat 4, Level 224 (ME) 0cool1; RU, not ranked, level 30 0cool1, LAS, not ranked, level 5

Those are Summoner names, not Usernames.

The username is what you use to log into your account that is not your password, which means you shouldn’t be able to prove who has it because NO ONE should know what yours and other players usernames are.

If you’re using the same username on PBE or different server then you can simply change those accounts usernames first, if those accounts don’t belong to you then good luck.

Hecarim Himmler12/11/2019, 10:40:06 PM1 votes

there is such a thing as cleanup timers on accounts with no activity. the fact that you encountered this means you haven't played in over 2 years and the system freed up the name for someone else. the system was constructed to free up cool usernames desired by others so that they would still be available if the person who took them first started playing league then quit.

the only option you have is to change your name or wait 300+ days if the accounts in question on the same server as you goes inactive for as long as you did, which is highly improbable since those new players would likely be using their new chosen name for a long time to come.

its not at all a matter of fairness. you have only yourself to blame for not logging in once in a while