Last Names Still No ETA

[Sylvia Tamalyn 7,731]

2 hours ago, RaeLeeH said:

Thanks for that! That's actually pretty interesting. I know it can't exactly predict the future, but it's still good to see how things were done and possibly offer some (like me) a general idea of what kinds of things we could look forward to. I asked a few of my friends who've been around since the stone age and they couldn't remember. Thanks again!  

You're welcome! According to that list, there were 998 residents with the last name Tamalyn, yet I have only encountered two others in the past 9 years.

[Chic Aeon 11,159]

21 minutes ago, Sylvia Tamalyn said:

You're welcome! According to that list, there were 998 residents with the last name Tamalyn, yet I have only encountered two others in the past 9 years.

The attrition rate has always been horrible for Second Life, mostly because of the learning curve and secondarily because there is no "game" to follow :D. So that isn't surprising.  I had a friend who is older who had the same name (almost exactly first and last) as someone else and they LOOKED very much alike (well there were lots less choices then) but on the whole I don't see many avatars with the same last names as my friends. DeCuir is the only one that I run into very often. 

[Sylvia Tamalyn 7,731]

7 minutes ago, Chic Aeon said:

The attrition rate has always been horrible for Second Life, mostly because of the learning curve and secondarily because there is no "game" to follow :D. So that isn't surprising.  I had a friend who is older who had the same name (almost exactly first and last) as someone else and they LOOKED very much alike (well there were lots less choices then) but on the whole I don't see many avatars with the same last names as my friends. DeCuir is the only one that I run into very often. 

Yeah, and then the usage count has a lot to do with it, too. For instance, the link I posted sorts the names by usage. There are/were 77,776 Aeons vs only 998 Tamalyns!

Not surprisingly, a lot of the names I see on that first page are the ones I've seen the most in world.

Edited June 27 by Sylvia Tamalyn

[Selene Gregoire 6,968]

The way things were in 2004 was you typed in the first name of your choice then picked a last name from a list. I don't recall it having been a drop down list. The list was, I think, 25 names. You could refresh the page and the names would change. But if you refreshed a second time you got the first list. So a total of 50. It was still that way in 2009, except that may have been a drop down, that being the last year I created an alt.

Edited June 28 by Selene Gregoire

[bigmoe Whitfield 533]

4 minutes ago, Selene Gregoire said:

The way things were in 2004 was you typed in the first name of your choice then picked a last name from a list. I don't recall it having been a drop down list. The list was, I think, 25 names. You could refresh the page and the names would change. But if you refreshed a second time you got the first list. So a total of 50. It was still that way in 2009, except that may have been a drop down, that being the last year I created an alt.

 

Yep that's how it was in 2007,  they used some portal service that went web1.secondlife.com/signup or some such, changing the web1 to 2 or such would get you new lists of names,  I ended up with whitfield,  somebody snagged moe on me,  so I took meh bigmoe.  wishing I could of gotten the moe account    

[Distraida 1]

Someone said they heard the fee was $35? Last I heard was "There may be a small fee." On whose planet is $35 a small fee? I have an alt with a premium account, I'd like to give her a last name, but I sure as h--- am not paying $35 for a last name.

[Solar Legion 1,866]

13 minutes ago, Distraida said:

Someone said they heard the fee was $35? Last I heard was "There may be a small fee." On whose planet is $35 a small fee? I have an alt with a premium account, I'd like to give her a last name, but I sure as h--- am not paying $35 for a last name.

Look farther back in the thread or use the forum search feature - the source of that has already been covered.

Boiling it down for you however: The comment that was sourced from suggested that the price might be equivalent to a couple of months of Premium membership. At the time the comment was made, Premium was $9.95 a month with Quarterly rates in the high 20's as cost.

At 35, that is equivalent to about three and a half months - just above the cost of Quarterly.

As much as I hate to make the comparison, most MMOs with a paid subscription of any kind charge for an account level name change with some charging for individual character name changes as well.

With all that this service will entail for Second Life on the technical side? Count your blessings that it's being aimed at being that cheap.

Mind, things I'd pay for include the ability to clone an inventory from one account to another (cue the screaming and gnashing of teeth from content creators) or some similar system/set up. Heck, I'd even find some way to save up enough to pay for a one time upgrade to a 4096 tier level (I think that's what the old Lifetime Accounts have).

[Inara Pey 287]

22 hours ago, LittleMe Jewell said:

 

 

 

The only Official word I ever saw put the cost around $20-25.00.   That comes from a Townhall meeting last Nov - referenced on Vanity's page about name changes:

Yup.. the key word being "estimates"   - rather than anything set is stone; hence my reference to it being an "example"; as per the most recent discussion (Oz, April, June 25th, 2019), the fee is still very much "TBD". Thanks for pointing me back; I was so buried in trying to get through Ebbe's MTL audio / video & catch-up on my other SL (and Sansar!) stuff, I hadn't taken a deep dive back through my notes

[rasterscan 436]

Regarding costs to have a 'cherished plate' surname ... Patch enquired inworld what, generally, people would consider paying for such a feature. I went in at 9.99 usa dollars, but others were willing to pay 99 dollars and the highest bid was 200 usa dollars. So I upped my expenditure to 19.99 usa dollars, " and not a cent more" if I may quote myself at the time. But I see from above posts I may have to to stretch to 25 - 35 usa dollars. If its 25 I will mumble and pay. If its 35 I will mumble, grumble, for a week, then pay. If its above 35 I will have to seriously rethink my options

Edited June 29 by rasterscan

[Mollymews 2,204]

a typically Linden thing

the very last last name added was Lastchance

[Erwin Solo 1,786]

On 6/27/2019 at 10:47 PM, Selene Gregoire said:

The way things were in 2004 was you typed in the first name of your choice then picked a last name from a list. I don't recall it having been a drop down list. The list was, I think, 25 names. You could refresh the page and the names would change. But if you refreshed a second time you got the first list. So a total of 50. It was still that way in 2009, except that may have been a drop down, that being the last year I created an alt.

You could try again, and again, and again over the days, weeks, months that followed to see if a last name popped up that you wanted.  The last name selection system encouraged people to do so.  To LL, it seemed that last names discouraged people in the new sign-up process, and so they eliminated the last names.  So, instead of improving last name selection they eliminated last names, in an epic case of throwing the baby out with the bathwater.  See timestamp 40:50.

 

[Selene Gregoire 6,968]

3 hours ago, Erwin Solo said:

You could try again, and again, and again over the days, weeks, months that followed to see if a last name popped up that you wanted.  The last name selection system encouraged people to do so.  To LL, it seemed that last names discouraged people in the new sign-up process, and so they eliminated the last names.  So, instead of improving last name selection they eliminated last names, in an epic case of throwing the baby out with the bathwater.  See timestamp 40:50.

 

Um... I was here when all that bs went down so I don't get why you are telling me things I've known for years?

Or are you confusing "2009 being the last year I created an alt" with "2009 being the last year I logged in"? 

[Erwin Solo 1,786]

11 hours ago, rasterscan said:

Regarding costs to have a 'cherished plate' surname ... Patch enquired inworld what, generally, people would consider paying for such a feature. I went in at 9.99 usa dollars, but others were willing to pay 99 dollars and the highest bid was 200 usa dollars. So I upped my expenditure to 19.99 usa dollars, " and not a cent more" if I may quote myself at the time. But I see from above posts I may have to to stretch to 25 - 35 usa dollars. If its 25 I will mumble and pay. If its 35 I will mumble, grumble, for a week, then pay. If its above 35 I will have to seriously rethink my options

If they are smart, they will start it really high and then walk it down over time.  There is a lot of pent up demand. 

[AdminGirl 26]

So how would we know when this feature becomes available? Dashboard? Or will it be announced in the forums? I never know where to check  

[Solar Legion 1,866]

It will likely be announced through a Blog. As of right now however, it's a while away from even being started let alone being released.

[LittleMe Jewell 23,038]

1 hour ago, Solar Legion said:

It will likely be announced through a Blog. As of right now however, it's a while away from even being started let alone being released.

From the Meet the Lindens talk, the project has been started, but they have found way more pieces of old code that are impacted than they ever imagined.  They are plugging away at it, bit by bit.

[ItHadToComeToThis 480]

I thought for a second that link was named  SL Shame Watch and I was immediately reminded of SL Secrets 😅

[CoffeeDujour 4,344]

We should have a fairly good heads up when it's close to release,  probably before any official announcement.

[FashionEye 11]

Hey guys!

Linden labs should have kept the return of last names under wraps until they've confirmed everything from their side. Made sure everything was ready system wise. Then tell us that it's coming with the definite due date. NOT! mention something then can't actually do it in the time given. 

That's just my opinion though.

[Alwin Alcott 5,732]

1 hour ago, FashionEye said:

Hey guys!

Linden labs should have kept the return of last names under wraps until they've confirmed everything from their side. Made sure everything was ready system wise. Then tell us that it's coming with the definite due date. NOT! mention something then can't actually do it in the time given. 

That's just my opinion though.

you'r here for a while already.. you could have known by now  
But it really are very complicated processes, it's not that easy to fit in code that had it's start over 15 yrs ago.
I do agree the enthousiams was a bit to forward in expectations when to be available

[Rhonda Huntress 19,463]

23 minutes ago, Alwin Alcott said:

I do agree the enthousiams was a bit to forward in expectations when to be available

With any project, estimate the cost and double it.  Then estimate the time and triple it.

 

[Selene Gregoire 6,968]

52 minutes ago, Rhonda Huntress said:

With any project, estimate the cost and double it.  Then estimate the time and triple it.

 

[Love Zhaoying 10,124]

8 minutes ago, Selene Gregoire said:

Maybe it will happen after the current marketplace, EEP, Animesh, Tilia, BOM, SSP/Bellisseria, and other changes are done. Say, mid-2020.

[Selene Gregoire 6,968]

Just now, Love Zhaoying said:

Maybe it will happen after the current marketplace, EEP, Animesh, Tilia, BOM, SSP/Bellisseria, and other changes are done. Say, mid-2020.

I don't think I'll be holding my breath any time soon. 

[Lyssa Greymoon 771]

What do they need to do except modify a little code at the registration portal? Code they already have. Last names were working for years in third party registration portals, and I suspect they would still be working today if LL hadn’t shut them down when they discovered people were still using them.