Greetings,

Unfortunately, we do not offer a character name change service for EVE Online. As a character's identity and reputation are key aspects of EVE, all characters must keep the name that was chosen during the creation process. The exceptions to this policy involve characters with offensive names or newly created characters.
The most we can offer to do is to correct any capitalization errors in the name.

I regret that Customer Support will not be able to grant your request for a name change, we are simply unable to change character's names in this manner.

If you have any other issues or questions, please feel free to contact Customer Support further.

Best regards,
GM Prometheus
CCP Customer Support | EVE Online | DUST 514

Yet trading(selling/buying) characters is allowed? Personally I don't care for **** about my reputation yet I am bothered with my name being nearly identical to my alternative characters giving other players several advantages in game.

no, name changes are bad for many reasons. it has been discussed before, several times, and every discussion came to the same conclusion.

CCP really ought to have a think to themselves, they are missing so many revenue generating possibilities it's silly; Paid for Attribute Re-Maps, paid for Skill Re-Maps etc.

The OP has a point - CCP are not being reasonable.

Strictly speaking, arriving at a consensus doesn't mean you've arrived at the truth.

Yeah, that policy still is complete and utter bullcrap, that even some well respected players (not to mention devs) seem to still childishly believe.

Hey, first time posting so this may or may not be correctly categorized.

Some time ago I spoke to the customer support about name changes, asking them if it was possible. (Although I pretty much knew it was not)
They responded to me with this following message:Yet trading(selling/buying) characters is allowed? Personally I don't care for **** about my reputation yet I am bothered with my name being nearly identical to my alternative characters giving other players several advantages in game.

Will character name changes ever be available?
I'd pay for it and I'm sure there are others who would

But official comment from CCP about those services in China would be much appreciated of course. Stop acting like Serenity does not exist in the same Universe. Why exactly chinese players have better account services than we do?

I think it's more the sheer amount of additional work that allowing name changes would bring is the main issue for CCP. It's been mentioned in previous suggestions that a players employment history could be kept, clearly showing their previous identity before the name change. But can you imagine how annoying it would be for CCP to have to deal with the additional petitions just so people that have named their characters poorly can set things right?

I do agree though, names don't mean much these days with the amount of throw-away characters in circulation. So many players get what they want from EvE by the constant creation and biomass of characters to get away with their dark deeds. Thats not even mentioning characters being traded, it's a wonder people can remember who they are!

Seriously though, CCP isn't going to make it possible to change your name. I'd suggest you buy a new character, or strongly consider hitting the biomass on low skilled alts with similar names.

So charage a PLEX for the first change, 2 PLEX for the second, etc. Frivolously renaming a character will start out expensive and get very expensive very quickly.

Because the services are bad.

Sell your character and buy one with a non-******** name. Its quite simple actually.

"Bad" because some monoclegeddon-traumatized bittervet said so?
Character ID, killboard record, contact record, bounties etc etc - they all remain the same. Name change log is visible and available to anyone, so you can never erase your character past. Any more reasons to whine left?

"Bad" because some monoclegeddon-traumatized bittervet said so?

No. Bad because they circumvent gameplay mechanics and the balancing factors encapsulated in those mechanics for money.

No. Bad because they circumvent gameplay mechanics and the balancing factors encapsulated in those mechanics for money.

So it seems there is no serious argumented objections against this service, even from known "I disagree with anything" forum disputer like you.

You're disregarding alternatives that don't circumvent any of these balancing factors.

Those alternatives would all be Gǣdon't provide shortcuts", which rather means that the shortcuts people ask forGǪ wellGǪ won't be provided. You can't give people the option of skipping the attribute mechanics witout circumventing the balancing inherent in attributes.