Is it possible to change your username?

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#1  Edited By artofwar420

Maybe it is? I was hoping, since I'm going by a different username in other places like twitter and such. Who do I have to blow to change it?

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#2  Edited By MattyFTM  Moderator

Nope, you can't change your username.

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#3  Edited By natetodamax

Negative.

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#4  Edited By JJOR64

You can give me a million dollars and I'll change it for you.
 
 
(Sadly, you can't change it.)

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#5  Edited By JoelTGM

how come websites never let you do this?  hm, actually the champions online site will let you change your forum name if you contact them about it.  is it really that hard to change some letters around?

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#6  Edited By artofwar420

I wouldn't care if the actual URL of my profile and all things related to it isn't changed. Just what is shown in forum posts and my profile.

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#7  Edited By gingertastic_10

Eh, I'm glad they don't let you. People would change them all the time and I'd forget who you were.

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#8  Edited By artofwar420
@dcpc10 said:
" @DOUBLESHOCK said:
" how come websites never let you do this?  hm, actually the champions online site will let you change your forum name if you contact them about it.  is it really that hard to change some letters around? "
Well isn't it kind've hard to keep track of people when they constantly change their username? "
How about you charge for it? That way people don't do it all the time and it's not a bad way to make some lunch money. I'd pay money to change it.
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#9  Edited By Hailinel
@DOUBLESHOCK said:
" how come websites never let you do this?  hm, actually the champions online site will let you change your forum name if you contact them about it.  is it really that hard to change some letters around? "
Some websites have allowed this.  I know that GameSpot used to allow this in the past, but certain abuses by users led to that privilege being revoked.
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#10  Edited By TheGodPoet

I think they don't let you change your username because of the mess it used to cause on Comicvine. When it started, up to about a year or so ago on Comicvine you could change your username but......there was always problems with it so they got rid of it.

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#11  Edited By artofwar420
@Sincillian: Again, I think charging for it would lessen the amount of people doing it. But the ones who really want could have a choice. Doesn't Xbox Live allow you to change your name for a price?
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#12  Edited By JoelTGM
@artofwar420 said:
" @dcpc10 said:
" @DOUBLESHOCK said:
" how come websites never let you do this?  hm, actually the champions online site will let you change your forum name if you contact them about it.  is it really that hard to change some letters around? "
Well isn't it kind've hard to keep track of people when they constantly change their username? "
How about you charge for it? That way people don't do it all the time and it's not a bad way to make some lunch money. I'd pay money to change it. "
yeah that's one way, but this site isn't that large that they couldn't just do it by request.  make up some kind of list, go and change them all at the end of the month or w/e
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#13  Edited By TheGodPoet
@artofwar420 said:
" @Sincillian: Again, I think charging for it would lessen the amount of people doing it. But the ones who really want could have a choice. Doesn't Xbox Live allow you to change your name for a price? "
Xbox Live does let you change it for a fee but I'm talking about the technical problems. Sometimes when people did it their pages would delete itself or disappear and then sometimes there were problems with passwords. It was just too much of a hassle fixing everything to do with it so they got rid of it.
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#14  Edited By MetalGearSunny

Just pick a username that you really like and won't regret using.

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#15  Edited By mikemcn

You have a beautiful, albeit obscure username, why change it?
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#16  Edited By artofwar420
@Metal_Gear_Sunny: I did, I liked this username when I picked it, I just like my other username better. We change, maybe our usernames should change with it?
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#17  Edited By artofwar420
@Bucketdeth: Lol, you think I'm gonna get bugged out to non-existence?
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Don't do it boy, you won't see the light of day again.

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#19  Edited By sjschmidt93
@dcpc10 said: 
Well isn't it kind've hard to keep track of people when they constantly change their username? "
@gingertastic_10 said:
" Eh, I'm glad they don't let you. People would change them all the time and I'd forget who you were. "
I don't recognize most people by their username usually... just their avatar. That's why I don't feel like every changing my avatar. :P
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#20  Edited By Scooper

I changed my name from Scooper to Scooper but you don't wanna know what I had to do for it.

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#21  Edited By FluxWaveZ
@SJSchmidt93 said:
" @dcpc10 said: 
Well isn't it kind've hard to keep track of people when they constantly change their username? "
@gingertastic_10 said:
" Eh, I'm glad they don't let you. People would change them all the time and I'd forget who you were. "
I don't recognize most people by their username usually... just their avatar. That's why I don't feel like every changing my avatar. :P "
That's probably why NeoGAF has some restrictions on icon changing.
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#22  Edited By teptom
@Scooper said:
" I changed my name from Scooper to Scooper but you don't wanna know what I had to do for it. "
I think the first one is so much better. Why'd you change it?
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ArtofWar, you are psychic, you replied to me, yet your post is before mine : O

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#24  Edited By artofwar420
@Bucketdeth said:
" ArtofWar, you are psychic, you replied to me, yet your post is before mine : O "
What the hell? That's creepy.
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#25  Edited By Scooper
@Shini4444 said:
" @Scooper said:
" I changed my name from Scooper to Scooper but you don't wanna know what I had to do for it. "
I think the first one is so much better. Why'd you change it? "
Someone said it was racist.