[Changes to Display Names Based on Your Feedback]

This is going to be so confusing and anti-immersive. The only thing I think that might be worse would be the 2.1 sidebar.

[Changes to Display Names Based on Your Feedback]

Excellent point. I have at least three alt accounts of roleplay characters that are "dead". I won't roleplay with them again. Their story is over. If i could change their identity aka user name, I would go out and buy them new clothes, new hair, new wardrobes, make new shapes and have a brand new character for a brand new story. Doing that with a display name and an original user name of the dead character still identifying the dead character is unappealing. Its not something I would use in roleplay.

People who have tried to do it with titlers (which are less glorified display names) find that other roleplayers will react to who they used to be more often than not.

Display names will confuse new players. Display names will make SL less immersive. Display names will make it possible to impersonate existing users. Your solutions don't address these issues. You might be listening but you don't seem to have an open mind when it comes to protecting the unique identity of existing user names.

Many good suggestions and points have been made but they seem to hit this brick wall of an excuse that there wouldn't be enough names left if you protected our unique names. Add a middle initial or name and problem solved. Let new registrants use whatever last name they like as long as it doesn't duplicate an existing user name. There is no way that running out of names is a real reason for not protecting exisiting unique user names. Its just not realistic to believe that.

And what if a name is a registered trademark? That hasn't been addressed and it is a big can of worms.