Arwoo

As some of you may have noticed already, we have removed the 24 hour cooldown requirement before claiming a name of a deleted character. We do apologize to those of you who dealt with this requirement over the past few days, and can only hope that you were able to claim the name you had saved.

Thanks guys!

Petalmagic wrote: »

Will it be fixed soon...? I hope you can see how much we don't like this change...

Through the power of observation, we can clearly see that the change is not liked.

Envo wrote: »

Arwoo, thank you for joining the discussion.

First, I'd like to ask you something; you said, in your post, that the name cooldown feature has surprised you as well. I'm assuming you are referring to the Nexon America dev and community teams, is that correct? Please correct me if I'm wrong.

If this is the case, it brings up a very important issue players are having with Nexon these days - how is it, that the team implementing patches and updates, is not aware of what they are implementing? This is truly controversial to us.

Second, to answer your question: I believe the player consensus is to allow the first-come, first-serve system for name selection.

You're correct in stating that the change surprised our team. Unfortunately, there is no excuse that I can provide for this oversight. Often times, these are the results of miscommunication from our internal teams on the contents of the patch. However, no side or individual is to blame as accountability is a shared responsibility.

If you don't use third party programs such as auto hotkey, macro programs, or botting tools, then you have nothing to worry about.

The introduction of the name cooldown surprised us as well and because of this, it wasn't mentioned in the patch notes.
First and foremost, we sincerely apologize for this oversight and now it comes down to us and the community delivering feedback in regards to this cooldown.

From reading through the posts in this thread, I can see that Maplers hate it.
However, it was informed that this system was introduced to discourage individuals from mass storing names to either sell or prevent others from using.

It's a given that everyone wants the best names to themselves, but do you guys feel that this may help the overall fairness of name distribution? Or is it preferred to retain the first come first server name save basis?