Posers

Here’s a Warcraft forum thread I really wish I hadn’t looked at: “Ever Seen Another Character W/ Your Name?” With the cross-server battlegrounds, I had known this was a possibility and had wondered how freaky that would be, to round a corner and run ker-smack into your opposite-faction self.

Depending on how freaked the other guy was, I’d probably waste precious stealthing time thinking “what in the hell is this????” and griping about posers in Ventrilo.

THEN, I read Reply #10 which suggested people do a character search on WarcraftRealms for their names. SONUVA … there’s 12 other level 60s with my main’s character name. A paladin! And, an even larger shame, a night elf hunter!

Ok that was bad, but this is worse: Raster did a search on his name and found a level 60 horde on our old server (our guild transferred away from that server to flee the lag) that was guilded with our former arch PVP rivals. (There was much cursing.)

Fucking posers. We carefully craft our game names and build multi-year, multi-game reputations, for better or worse, and they skate in and probably do all manner of stupid shit: stand in Rain of Fire, go toe to toe with a cleaving mob, taking a Locust Swarm in the face … ARE THEY EVEN VANISHING ON VAEL??

And one last thing, who’s the joker that made a character Fotonrogue on Kul Tiras???

Archive of WoW Forum – Ever Seen Another Character w/ Your Name?, page 1

10 thoughts on “Posers

  1. I guess I hit just the right level of absurdity with my name. No one else has it. And you can even pronounce it!

    I did once have someone run up to me in Ironforge and comment that we had the same appearance. However, she was wearing a helm so it took a minute to figure out what the hell she was taking about.

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  3. Got ya beat, drypulse…221

    My main is Bos. I guess short names are more likely to be duplicated. Still, 221 copies of a nonsense word?

    The scary part is that 28 of them (including me) are Tauren Warriors.

  4. It was fun watching my name get duplicated on WarcraftRealms over time – I was one of three or four for the first few months, now we are legion.

  5. When I first made my toon, I was the only one with Dreaming. For about 8 months or so after release, there was 4 and I was the only 60. Now they’re frikin everywhere. I’ve used Dreaming or Dreaming Warrior for years. Back down!

  6. Go figure how many of mine have been used
    I have had this tag from the first week WOW started
    and is was a breakdown from DingDuck

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