Raffles wrote...
Why would they change names ? People with a history at the old place wouldn't want to throw it away.
I changed my name (I was tdonadio on the old Bioware forums). The reason is simple: I'd wanted to do it for years, because I've used the handle "Andarian" ever since I started releasing mods in 2006. Maximus agreed to retire my old tdonadio account on the Vault and let me create Andarian, but switching over on the old Bioware forums was problematic. That was because someone had actually created an "Andarian" account on them back in Feb. 2002 that they basically never used (4 total posts, all archived long ago).
As it turns out, that even made it problematic on the new BSN, which was first unveiled at the DA Builder's Event last summer. As a participant there, mine was one of the first two dozen or so accounts created. The BSN was very primitive at the time, and it was at least initially set up to import all of the names from the old Bioware forums. Unfortunately that meant that when I went to create my new "Andarian" account, the same unused name from the old forums was still there to prevent it. So I had to settle for "AndarianTD," which to be honest I actually rather dislike -- though at least now it recognizably includes my builder's handle. Chris Priestly was looking into seeing whether "Andarian" could be freed up for me and my account name could be switched over, but unfortunately it looks like nothing ever came of that.
Modifié par AndarianTD, 24 septembre 2010 - 11:28 .
