Author Topic: If HTC wanted to make some extra cash... (Read 345 times)

J_A_B · « **on:** June 19, 2002, 05:52:39 PM »

If HTC wanted to make some extra cash, they'd change their naming system to allow me to use my proper online name. Then I'd have some incentive to NOT cancel my account every time I go inactive.

Speaking of which....anyone have a suggestion for a handle to use THIS time?

J_A_B <-- soon to be back in the virtual skies

Thrawn · « **Reply #1 on:** June 19, 2002, 06:07:31 PM »

they could pimp J_A_B.

Russian · « **Reply #2 on:** June 19, 2002, 06:19:50 PM »

Shoot them email and they will change it.

SKurj · « **Reply #3 on:** June 19, 2002, 06:29:06 PM »

Russian +) u misunderstand, he wants the handle J_A_B which is not possible in AH as the _ character is not permitted

SKurj

DRILL · « **Reply #4 on:** June 19, 2002, 06:36:02 PM »

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Originally posted by J_A_B
If HTC wanted to make some extra cash,

he would charge you double

J_A_B · « **Reply #5 on:** June 19, 2002, 06:39:29 PM »

And I'd pay double to have my proper online name. It'd be worth it.

J_A_B

funkedup · « **Reply #6 on:** June 19, 2002, 07:08:20 PM »

I will pay double for HTC to NOT allow pretentious 7338 H@XX0R handles with special characters!

senna · « **Reply #7 on:** June 19, 2002, 07:19:40 PM »

Why not. Prince changed his name to a "symbol", why cant we have names like "@" in our AH community.

CptTrips · « **Reply #8 on:** June 19, 2002, 07:32:20 PM »

AKSWulfe · « **Reply #9 on:** June 19, 2002, 08:05:32 PM »

If J_A_B gets his _, I want to change my handle to A|-SW

lemur · « **Reply #10 on:** June 19, 2002, 08:25:41 PM »

I'll take |_33|V|Ur please

W00t! I r a l33t Hax0r! ph33r |V|3!

Bleh.

Acutally, it does seem sort of silly to not allow for ALL alphanumeric chars. Easier to do it than not.

~Lemur

Fatty · « **Reply #11 on:** June 19, 2002, 08:31:31 PM »

I'd prefer to use a .wav file for a handle.

J_A_B · « **Reply #12 on:** June 19, 2002, 08:55:53 PM »

"If J_A_B gets his _, I want to change my handle to A|
I know you weren't very serious there SW.....but really, what would be wrong with that?

Tougher to identify TOS-offending players? That's what server logs are for.

Name is just "stupid"? No worse than stuff like "nopoop" like there already is in the MA (no offense intended of course).

Personally I think names like SW's example are colorful and show a lot of imagination.

Plus if I were to get my ID I'd shut up about this forever

J_A_B

AKSWulfe · « **Reply #13 on:** June 19, 2002, 09:11:01 PM »

Nah, I wasn't serious... just seeing what it would look like really. I don't see anything wrong with special characters, but I just wonder if it isn't something that may somehow interfere with one of the various systems that run the online game. Account system? I dunno, it's all done on PC... so maybe somewhere those special characters fug up something. Or maybe make it somehow more accessible to hackers (server side or client side)... I dunno.

Just throwin' out guesses.
-SW

J_A_B · « **Reply #14 on:** June 19, 2002, 09:26:55 PM »

Actually I used to suspect the same sort of things....maybe their accounting software doesn't allow for it or something. Except for one thing.....nobody from HTC ever says that. All I get is a "we don't allow special characters" which to me implies they just disallow them for no particular reason.

HT once told me that they'd "never" allow such names as mine. That suggests that they don't want them, instead of not being able to have them. Of course, I'm persistent and realize that in the online world "never" seldom means never, so I continue lobbying them. And I will continue lobbying until such a time as either they let me have "J_A_B", a better product comes along that makes me forget AH ever existed, or AH dies.

Honestly, I suspect the problem is that they didn't think to make the game accept such characters when they programmed it (none of the HTC crew's ID's required such characters), and aren't going to change things to make ONE person happy.

J_A_B

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