I changed my game name after two weeks. It was originally Xasthur but when I decided to subscribe a while after the initial two weeks I decided to try something different after being met with two many expressions like this:
when my game name was Xasthur.
The pronunciation of the name escaped too many people and I can understand how annoying that it is. I hate it when I have to double-take people's names to figure how to bloody say it.
I changed my game name to Archaius which, in hindsight, was probably not the best choice given the amount of different pronunciations I get on that one. I get "Ar-key-us" and "Arch-ee-us" a lot when it should be "Ar-kay-us".
I don't care though, I know they're talking to me.
Many end up just saying "Arch" or "Ark" which is great, it's nice and easy to say and type.
Just put your in-game tag in your BBS signature or avatar and people will know who you are.
A few people actually call me 'Xas' in-game, too, actually. So don't worry, people will put it all together.
< too easy.
(Oops, I thought my game tag was in my sig, I forgot I put it in my avatar instead)