How many people are looking forward to having a first and last name?

[Lucavi]

^ that is true and what S-E has confirmed. Anyone can have any last name or any first name, just the combination has to be unique.

Combination. I've seen a ton of Jenkins surnames, presumably from the Leeroy Jenkins fad.

[Jonny]

PURE FUCKING AWESOMENESS

[Jonny]

double

[Endigi]

I'm just going with <Character name> <Old FFXI Server>

So for me I'll be Endigi Asura or Enpsi Asura or Digiont Asura or something like that.

[Me2217]

the amount of celebrity names are gonna be mind boggling. also xxsephirothxx.

I'm just going to go with Lord (FFXIname) for my chars

[alecrast]

I'm just going with <Character name> <Old FFXI Server>

So for me I'll be Endigi Asura or Enpsi Asura or Digiont Asura or something like that.

I never thought of that. And here I was struggling with a last name. Thanks for solving that problem for me.

Still, I am not looking forward to the two-name system. Not dreading it, either. Just not excited about it.

[mundie]

Saw this in eorzeapedia's interview with SE which I suppose is pretty relevant to this discussion.

Eorzeapedia: Will surnames be optional? If not, how will you make it easier to send /tells to other players?

Tanaka: It’s going to be mandatory. You have to have a surname. The surname and the name will be unique. There will only be one person on the server who has that name. However, you will have a sort of short version – a nickname of the full name. So for example, Saori Hill will be my full name, but if you make it remember “Saori”, then you only have to use “Saori” to /tell someone.

Eorzeapedia: Is that nickname chosen by the player during the character creation?

Tanaka: When you make a /tell for the first time, if you type in “Saori”, you will have every Saori in every world appearing in the results. So you select which one is going to be Saori for yourself. The user will decide what the nickname is going to be for the other person.

assignable nicknames as shorthand for tells, I was wondering how'd they'd do that myself.

I'd post the link but I need more posts -.-

[Liion]

Can you have multiple capitals?

[Kurokikaze]

No. Thank god.