Rant - nobody cares - don't even read and move on.

[Hopkins]

I see what you are saying - cool!!! But sometimes you - have - to take a pause - you know. Just give it some time and we'll be playing in no time!!! Have some faith - it won't go unrewarded. Why did you take time off today ? And not Tuesday ? Huh ? That is kind of weird - since all the features won't be up till Tuesday!!! Give it a go....

[ocoma]

You have been able to have spaces in your name for awhile now and it hasn't crashed the server before. My toon's name like 2 weeks ago had a space in it. I actually thought I was bugged in character creation cause it didn't add a space though I had seen people's names with spaces. Lo and behold I held the spacebar a sec, the space went in and I was happy cause I had the "first and last" name I wanted. I ended up re-rolling that toon to stat differently and stayed with a single word name.

The fact of the matter is the character creation screen should NOT have allowed a name with spaces or whatever else names are not suppose to have when you hit the "Check Name" button. This is not the fault of a player but a bad character creation function.

[Worfeus]

LOL

yes... like I said... day off - not the best idea in the world...

But come one - the people who played with long names and spaces - why ????

[Surly]

I heard a guy named Benny was behind it.

[LordTenacious]

That's funny, I have a reliable source that says Benny did it too.

[Commissar123]

I have reports also that a member named Benny is responsible for this unfabulous situation we are currently finding ourselves in.

Also Wolfeus, I understand you're frustrated but I suggest you visit my thread here http://www.xsyon.com/forum/showthrea...line-right-now...

[Brilliant]

If the spaces in names were honestly corrupting game data, you should be thankful that this was exploited now instead of later. Lots of players have been using names with spaces since beta, and if this hadn't been brought to the devs attention today, the game would have officially launched in 36 hours with this bug still in. Would you rather the servers go down, and potentially wipe again after launch because of corrupted data due to the buggy character creation screen?

Its not like everyone who had a space in their name did it as an exploit to avoid being /whispered by GMs. Some people did it to have a first and last name, not even realizing the there was anything wrong with what they were doing.

Edit: Why don't the GMs have the power to change names in game, like in every other MMO ever? I'm glad that they took it down to fix it, because restarting the server (and rolling it back!) three times in an hour just to take spaces out of some names was ridiculous.