That's actually intriguing.

Did they lock your knight? Or give it a generic filler name?

I... I am speechless. Just... Why? Was this really necessary?

Echo, I am terribly sorry for what happened to your name. Never before have I seen a playername compromised for NPC-usage. Never. Even if they do use your name, removing yours for the sake of putting it on an NPC is an unnecessary, rude move. In my honest opinion, you should have kept it and you deserve a proper apology from the developers for this unreasonable act.

Three Rings just lost a lot of my respect.

Why couldn't they just choose other name? This is quite unheard of... at least as Heavy-Duty says, you will be forever remembered there! Are you a swordman, by the way? xD

Why no " I don't understand" button ?

Strange that a brand new NPC had to be named the same as a long-standing Knight and somehow the Knight loses the battle to keep the name.

Wow.

But who is this new NPC? I don't recall seeing an 'Echo' anywhere. ???

Echo is a recipe vendor in the hall of heroes if I recall.

Hmmm.....I am very curious as to why they had to change your name because they wanted a character to be named Echo. They should have chosen a different name, like Kick, or Parsley (Basil and Punch exist, so why not these two?).

Echo's the Wolver Knight, too. This further Extends my Hate for them.

They could've just named the NPC something else... the name "Echo" isn't exactly a unique name to begin with, and to my knowledge there's little backstory behind any of the heroes in the Hall of Heroes, making the name change essentially pointless in almost all known regards. I also highly doubt that the name "Echo" is going to be important enough to basically tell a player to change his name for the sake of some "story".

Sure, offering him the chance to change his name for free is nice, but why should the responsibility fall on the player to begin with when it comes to picking a new name, when the party responsible could just as easily altered the NPC in a number of ways to conform to the playerbase? This is arguably a miniscule thing when you look at the big picture, but to force a playerbase to essentially bend over for any sort of developer or IP purpose in this sort of aspect where a player is essentially told his name doesn't belong to him anymore, then yeah there's really something wrong with the way matters are handled.

OOO screwed up here from a "customer service" perspective in the sense that you just don't tell players that their name isn't allowed anymore because the developing party decided "Hey, you know what, we want that name now so you can't have it". I never really thought I'd see the day where OOO genuinely disappointed me to the point that I couldn't even come up with a half-baked reason for anything they've done, but I guess there's a first for everything right?

Couldn't they just call him Echofournineteen or even ECHOechoech or perhaps Echy.

Tbh, I think OOO should have come up with a new name when they realized Echo was taken by a knight already, unless the name was ABSOLUTELY CRUCIAL to some part of their updates.

Or maybe it was 'Name chosen for NPC' -> Auto-message sent to existing player.
^Highly unlikely, but possible.

Lol Trying. My guildies and I had a conversation on npc's named after players.

Trust me, it will not end well for any of you people.

Something like this happened to me aswel, perhaps I should make a topic about it to aware people how 3O treats their players.

I remember something like this happening back in City of Villains, to a player named Black Scorpion.

Why force someone to name change for the sake of their NPCs. It's not like they actually have a storyline to them. (Or do they?) Besides. If that was the case, I would of exit the game before even wanting to accept it and email the company. Using the name "Echo" doesn't sound right... He's a swordsman that uses fast weapons. So... why not "Swift" for a name? (Sorry maybe that's been taken as well...) or at least "Swifter", he's using a Swiftstrike buckler and a Cutter. Give him that name instead. Sounds a lot better and is more appropriate for that NPC since he is suppose to be fast, just like the wolvers.

If they are going to start name changing then... you can start doing a name changing service (which I know some people won't agree but hey... I kind of wish I can fix my name for a mistake I didn't realize when starting out. As far as I know, they could be using Zeak as an NPC Name. (Don't get your hopes up Zeakstarwind... will not happen. lol)

Anyways, none-the-less, I think it would of been a bit nicer if they gave you the option to reason with them than the so call "I Understand" Button. That's the only option they got... Really now? I apologize if I'm being rude but OOO you could of at least reason with him instead of just forcing him to rename. Anyways... oh well what's done is done.

That's pretty sad that OOO would make you change your name which you had established already. And giving you the only option of "I understand" button is just rubbing salt in the wound. They should have told you to contact them to work things out, and compensate you well if they were insistent the NPC must have your name....which in this case doesn't seem to be the case.

To me this is just another example of how they put themselves before the player. How do they expect us to trust and respect them when they keep doing things like this, stealth patches, and etc?

I'm sorry but stuff like this just makes me not want to give them another cent of my money in the future.

@Guyinshinyarmour Trust me any semi-good/good 4 letter names are already taken. I tried at least 30+ names from a scrabble word bank before settling for my current one.

I just wish they'd clear 6-8+ month old inactives. Or at least send them an email after a certain time to say ''Hey if you don't come back in the next month, we'll delete your account. Alternatively, if you are unable to log in but wish to retain your account, please contact support!''

That way at least we can clear out all the 5min players from the Steam holiday achievements.

This would also help with the ''need to name NPCs but has a very limited amount of short-medium length names/words'' problem.

hahaha at all you people getting so offended. Yea OOO probably should have used a different name, but to lose all respect (or a lot of it) for OOO because of this is just internet overreacting drama.

OOO please take the name Nordlead for one of your NPCs, then I will name myself "TheOriginalNordlead" and be forever immortalized in this game.

Has Eurydice always had the title Community Manager.........Promotion perhaps.........Demotion?

*goes to register alt named TheOriginalNordlead*

Bosco?

'most people don't know the names of lesser NPCs like that anyway'

Yet again I'm in minority :-)

Thanks for bringing some clarity to the issue, and fixing it right away. This is where customer service really shines.

Though, is the NPC still called Echo, or is he receiving a name change? Guess I gotta go check.