Yep, just saw the confirmation, names are global.
Like I said, this was a stupid fucking decision. Staggering releases is just going to make the first ones that come up get absolutely fucking destroyed. Had they done all regions at the same time this would be avoided.
I've never seen your name outside of you, and the preorder bonuses are "meh" at best. The Amulet is replaced within the first 20-25 levels. With Deluxe, the Skins are goofy looking, the emotes for standard and deluxe are some shit that I personally will probably never use. Same with the Title. I'm sure there will be a queue, but even in Closed Beta the servers werent God Awful. Ie. Quit being lame and come kill people with me.That sounds fucking awful. Whelp good luck with that shit. I am liking my choice to let the dust settle on this cluster fuck before I bother giving it a go.
It's bad all around. bad for eu players that will have a laggy launch with everyone trying to smash the servers, and bad for other regions that feel the need to reserve. It's absolutely a newb mistake and kind of hilarious, if not a bit depressing. This is common sense.They're getting pretty skewered for this. Something that should've been obvious to anyone who's ever played an MMO period, but somehow Amazon just didn't plan for it?
And it's worse than just character names, as company names are global too. So people are going to be slamming the shit out of the EU servers to reserve a character name, but also people trying to level up on them to reserve a company name.
Having staggered releases with this name shit means everyone is going to be DDoSing the EU servers instead of spreading it out across the world.
Just absolutely mind boggling decision making. You'd think someone in the initial design stage might've said "hey, why are we making our database worldwide and no region or cluster specific?"