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W3stminst3r
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago

@EA-Team: Nickname-limitations (EA-profile)

Hi Apex-community,

Hi EA-Community Managers,

since the Club-Tags are gone for several weeks now (which I used to promote my tiny Youtube-channel) I thought about changing my nickname directly on the EA Homepage.

I noticed that the possibilities to make changes are clearly limited.

F.e you are not allowed to use "|", "_" or brackets to put abbreviations in front of your nick (like TTV or YT in my case).

Even using blanks seems prohibited.

I´d highly recommend to change that so that at least blanks (since all of the named special characters) are allowed on Steam.

If Steam can do it, it shouldn´t be called "prohibited" on the EA webpage. It just makes no sense.

Regards!

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  • XHelperZ's avatar
    XHelperZ
    Hero+
    3 years ago

    I'd assume this isn't allowed due to well, technical limitations related to the database.

    Whilst yes, it's not really an excuse anymore since it's technically possible, they're typically disabled with a reason.

  • W3stminst3r's avatar
    W3stminst3r
    Seasoned Ace
    3 years ago
    @XHelperZ

    I like your last sentence. :D
    They (EA) just can´t explain it with "individuality of nicknames" when Steam does allow players to use special characters in their nicks.
    Senseless...

    And @BigMac

    I usually try to avoid a nickname-overload. This doesn´t look too good in my eyes (and I´m also not sure if @ isn´t forbidden as well).
  • XHelperZ's avatar
    XHelperZ
    Hero+
    3 years ago

    To be fair, a bit ago Steam saw a big exploit regarding names, so it technically works against them too.

    Also do note that Steam also has more of a social side to it, including a community space that hosts discussions but also workshop content.

    EA pretty much has these forums and just the friends list as far I'm aware, so I wouldn't see a need for them to have more characters to allow more individualisation.

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