I love this idea personally.

I've actually already unoficially named my Blizzbrand (Oblizzerator) and my Jalovec (Gigantic Uber Sword :D)

I do think the innapropriateness problem is solved by it being personal only, since the chat filter is easy to get around.
You know, I see people dropping the F bomb by just putting spaces between the letters.

I'd dearly love to see this implemented, as an owners-eyes-only thing; it's a neat little personalisation touch, it helps players with duplicate items keep their stuff in order, and yeah, even a potential Crown-sink. No reason for other players to see the names - they could even be automatically removed on selling or trading an item, removing the need to filter them.

I actuualy thought of this not long ago. +1. Not super important, but post-worthy. Should only apply to bound items, dunno why. Gut idea.

Cool idea :D I'd so name my Triglav: The Bansword

This would be awesome if it showed up in the crafting interface too, so I could name all my T2 PVP gear as "FOR THE LOVE OF ALL *&^$*%&^ DON'T CRAFT WITH THIS"

I personally love this idea. I have actually already named my Flourish Wolvesbane, due to its power over beasts.

But still, good idea. I just hope some GM's see this and add it.

I'll name a jelly set Snarby Armor and try to sell it for 30k ce.

Then I will name my Vog set and weapons Proto Gear to be able to say I beated Vana using proto-only.

I actually thought about this myself a long time ago. There's a similar feature in the game I played prior to this called Dead Frontier.

Honestly, I don't think it'd be that hard for them to have an automatic list of names that aren't allowed. Obviously people will be clever, but no more so than existing knight names. I, however, do think the names should be visible under inspect (given the above is true). And the names should be only changable by the original namer [taking a cue from Pokemon here]. Why? Because everyone has a friend or a legend they know, and eventually such players move on, but what if they named their weapons before giving them away? Someone else could carry on their "legacy".

And to protect against fakes while allowing people to have the same name for their swords. Whoever named a sword, it should display somewhere their name.

Leviathan Blade
"Someknight's Powerful Slasha"

I'll leave it to the art team to figure out the acceptable name length limits.

This probably does need to be something that has a high cost though, to encourage people to sell CE for it or alternatively to keep people from mass naming useless items. So probably a price similar to Punch is fair. 10k[half the cost of a UV]. Yes, that's rather steep for a simple name, but I think that's acceptable. It honestly could be higher...

...I always wanted to name my upcoming Gran Faust "Nightmare's Edge."

Having a feature like this is what keeps the vets playing and adds our own little style to the game.

I would probably rename a lot of weapons if it came around to it >.>

Can you +1 a suggestion more than once?

all i know is i think its a gr8 idea.

btw,picture this:
male knight asks female knight to trade
he puts a sword on the trading slot.
she puts her mouse on it.
its called ''will you marry me''.
LOL
''can i keep the sword''?
''no''.
or maybe a weapon called pokeball.
'' i threw my pokeball at snarbolax, but it killed him instead''

love the idea. I have some comments on the idea as well

1: I like the idea of naming while crafting it, but, i also feel there should be a way to change it after. Take people that already have 5* weapons, they would not be able to name the weapon if you had to craft to name.

2: There should be a set (bad) word list, that will nullify the name. Also, to teach people a lesson, it will count as a naming of the weapon. Taking the naming chance, or fee should there be another way. Obviously, this will prevent/discourage offensive/inappropriate naming of weapons. If your naming a weapon with an inappropriate word, you probably know it.

3: Because of above, this would allow weapon names to be seen by inspecting other players (full inspect would be needed)

I would love SO sooo much to name my Thwack Hammer "The Practical Applicable."

Not that it is either practical NOR applicable in the majority of the in-game situations I'll be in BUT IT'S THE THOUGHT THAT COUNTS.

Support on my part!

I think that is the best idea anyone have just said. It can give us the ability make up cool names so make people jealous. I wonder what would happen if there was a contest for best weapon names.

When TF2 first allowed the 'Name Tag', the reaction was rather humorous. It started with all of the kids who could buy the tags with their parent's money renaming their items to stupid things.

The first few names noticed were either vulgar words, or rage-inducing, or highly-repeated meme phrases. But, as time progressed, the number of such disagreeable names, and scam-names (TF2 update, warns people when an item's name has been changed from its original) decreased.

Now, common named items are mixtures of slightly-original-and-humorous (Example: The Soldier's 'Black Box' rocket launcher -> 'The African American Box') / mildly-rage-inducing names. (Example: Boom! Headshot!)

There may still be some vulgar names, but their number eventually decreased after the novelty of naming wore off. (Example: The Scout's milk bottle getting renamed to a certain other liquid of a similar colour)

I think the same would happen here: People enjoy the novelty of names, creating rude/stupid names, and then the novelty wears off, and everything come out for the better.

+1 from the TF2 Community, I think, and +1 from myself.

>Assuming that they won't input a censor for that

How stupid do you think OOO is?

/necro

Kinda goin' down the Dungeon Defenders route; max off your weapon/armour/whatever and get the choice to either leave it as it is or give it a personal name.

Would be a nice touch; lets people around you get to inspect your gear and really see more than just gear/UVs, they get a bit of insight, too.
Obviously there would need to be a filter or sorts since it'd be a cheeky way to bypass chat filters, but the idea's there.

The question would be:
Unbinding: remove the name, and let others rename the gear you crafted, or have it named permanently from you?

If you call it Colt 45, both of your other weapons have to be called "Zig Zag", with no 4th weapon! :D

Ahh, I was still thinkin' along the Dungeon Defenders route, where somethin' can only be named once it's maxed (in this case, +10 at *cap). Although I'd understand things being renameable upon un/rebinding, it also loses that sense of craftsmanship; you craft it to max, name it then someone else gets it and can just rename it whatever they want? Naww, has to be locked!

However, if it'd just be a case of naming it whenever you felt like, then upon un/rebinding it should be renamable fo sho. Just depends on what the limitations would be.

Dungeon Defenders is a Steam/XBLA game, sorta RPG meets Tower Defence; point is that you get your weapons and as you upgrade them they get stronger etc etc then when they max, it gives you the option to rename them.

Unbinding it at +10 to, say sell it maybe if you need money more than you need a fancy UV, or taking a break and liquidating assets and the like. It would encourage the idea that you only get to name your weapons (as the flavour text implies) once you've had a lot of time to bond with it and use it; so you cannae just pick up some random new weapon and name it, gotta really spend time and money on it, max that baby off then rename it once it's finally yours. Then, if you choose to sell it, it's stuck with that name forever, so whoever bought it from you will always know where they got it from! :D

5k cr to name a maxed piece of equipment is entirely reasonable I think. 10k is startin' to creep too close to the amount you pay when you want somethin' tangible; 20k for a UV after all, so about 5k-ish to get a wee aesthetic bonus; stack that up by at least 5 (and likely into the dozens) per player in the game and that's a sink of millions; a substantial chunk of that would likely be sunk overnight from the release of such an update.

I can so see my bro Heavyknightguy screaming. OH MY GOSH! WHO TOUCHED SASHA!!! D=<

P.S. He loves playing tf2.