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This Name Change Is Garbage, and The Reason I Have To Change My Name Is Even Worse

Xonra·11/27/2019, 4:38:46 AM·53 votes·12,703 views

You have to change your log in name if it is shared across ANY server.

I've had this name Xonra since I joined League in 2010 or 2011 (it's been so long honestly don't remember)

There is some random lvl 1 account on EUW that has never even played a single game and was created in 2015 (not by me). Apparently 4 years is long enough to keep a name, but since there is a rando, zero games played lvl 1 account on EU west, I can't use my own name as my log in anymore that I've had longer than this lvl 1 abandoned account on an entirely different server.

Pretty bullshit Riot.

I checked every single server from PBE to all live servers and this one server has a person that apparently made an account and never used it. lol What a bunch of crap, I'm so pissed about this. I use this name for everything game related as a username for like 2 decades now. Why do I need to change it when I'm not even sharing a server with these people?

12 Comments

ShackledSøul11/27/2019, 4:52:13 AM10 votes

honestly i feel the same way. i've had my account for 9 years and i'm being asked to changed it as well. it seems pretty unfair to me

Chembaron Yamada11/27/2019, 1:40:15 PM6 votes

Honestly, it's not a big deal. It's the login name, which doesn't mean much to me, since that name is not representing me anyway. Everyone sees me as Chembaron Yamada, even if my login name is different.

rujitra11/27/2019, 5:11:05 AM4 votes

You cannot see the login name of other accounts - so you have no way of knowing if someone else used that login name on other regions or what their account's status is.

GreenKnight11/27/2019, 7:27:09 AM4 votes

Thankfully i dodged that with replacing just one character. It's a stupid change, for a stupid reason (i know why they did it, doesn't change my opinion).

CaptainAntiHeroz11/27/2019, 5:09:56 AM3 votes

I mean isn't it just changing the username to log in? Not the account name?

Wimbledofy11/27/2019, 6:59:40 AM2 votes

That's his ingame username, not his account name. Riot wants to update account usernames which is a different thing. So this means either there is some other problem or someone else that you don't know what region they are on has that account name or you have a pbe account name. I for some reason also cannot use my username and there's no way someone else has had my username before.