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Crafted items = another player's pride and they like to have their work acknowledged.
If it really bothers you, there are other, non labelled sources of gear that won't look so funny (!?!) in your bags.
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[Killzone男aeden]: Also does nobody capitalize anymore?!
[Killzone男aeden]: I didn't spend seven aeons feasting on the souls of the righteous just so I could play typing games with the functionally illiterate.
Hmmmmmm..... I think there you really differ from most of us. We want our names on there as a point of pride. It's hard enough to level up a crafting profession. But to make something really good and to then be made anonymous seems a bit of a slap in the face. We also want to buy items crafted by someone and then perhaps find him and see what else he could make for us.
Possibly because it is like the VIN number on a stolen car? It is sort of incriminating if you get caught trying to sell it and you didn't obtain it honestly to begin with. But I'm sure that's not the OP's reason for asking.
While I don't have any toons with high leveled crafting of the type that allows this.... (Alchemy and Inscription = disposable items and no recognition) I would never consider depriving those who have put in the time and gold to level their crafting professions of this recognition. And really, how much time do you spend actually looking at your gear like this? It seems a little petty and small to even consider it if you ask me.
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[Killzone男aeden]: Also does nobody capitalize anymore?!
[Killzone男aeden]: I didn't spend seven aeons feasting on the souls of the righteous just so I could play typing games with the functionally illiterate.
While I don't have any toons with high leveled crafting of the type that allows this.... (Alchemy and Inscription = disposable items and no recognition) I would never consider depriving those who have put in the time and gold to level their crafting professions of this recognition. And really, how much time do you spend actually looking at your gear like this? It seems a little petty and small to even consider it if you ask me.
It's good advertising for the crafter. When someone sees your character ingame he's likely going to click on it and inspect (face it, 99% of us do it, I'd bet) and if he likes what he sees, he may well look for the guy that crafted that weapon or armour that looks so good.
It's not different, really, from seeing a car on the street that you like the looks of and noting the make and model so you can check it out further.
It's good advertising for the crafter. When someone sees your character ingame he's likely going to click on it and inspect (face it, 99% of us do it, I'd bet) and if he likes what he sees, he may well look for the guy that crafted that weapon or armour that looks so good.
It's not different, really, from seeing a car on the street that you like the looks of and noting the make and model so you can check it out further.
Well, first I hate having people able to inspect me at will, which touches on one of my major bugaboos. And yeah, I get the above, which is why I've been arguing that it's petty and small to try and remove these name labels. I'm about to date myself here, but once upon a time I had a great, much sought after piece of crafted gear, Hide of the Wild. Wearing it got a lot of people to stop me, ask where I got it, and undoubtedly gave the leatherworker responsible for it a lot of business, which was fine by me.
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[Killzone男aeden]: Also does nobody capitalize anymore?!
[Killzone男aeden]: I didn't spend seven aeons feasting on the souls of the righteous just so I could play typing games with the functionally illiterate.
One thing you people seem to forget is that some players have absolutely terrible names. I dont mind wearing gear with a sensible name on it but I definitely dont want to look at my chest and see "Made by Hawktard" or Miningbank or Undeathknigh. All these names were pulled up by /who 80 so they're not even made up.
Of course I get around this by having my own army of alts with all the professions and trying to use their services or, in case of recipes I dont have, guildies, but I can understand why someone would want to get rid of an idiotic name tag on their gear.
One thing you people seem to forget is that some players have absolutely terrible names. I dont mind wearing gear with a sensible name on it but I definitely dont want to look at my chest and see "Made by Hawktard" or Miningbank or Undeathknigh. All these names were pulled up by /who 80 so they're not even made up.
Of course I get around this by having my own army of alts with all the professions and trying to use their services or, in case of recipes I dont have, guildies, but I can understand why someone would want to get rid of an idiotic name tag on their gear.
That's what you get, though. Don't like the label, buy from someone with a more appealing/less stupid name...enough people do this, and crafters will realize that stupid name hurts and we'll have fewer abysmally stupid named characters around. Get gear from non created sources. Learn the profession yourself. But again, who spends that much time staring at their own gear?
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[Killzone男aeden]: Also does nobody capitalize anymore?!
[Killzone男aeden]: I didn't spend seven aeons feasting on the souls of the righteous just so I could play typing games with the functionally illiterate.
Anyndra - I hope the "Panjandrum" brand leather gloves and boots would be a little less embarrassing for you :). I think I see your sentiment about the standard of nomenclature these days (if I see one more Druidskillz or Mightyelf on RP servers I'll go crazy...) but have to agree that it's unfair in a lot of cases - even Miningbank deserves recognition, and actually I think that sounds a lot like a good brand anyway...
Don't get me started on naming conventions BUT...
I RP offline and put a lot of thought into my character names, even in offline games - I had one set of Icewind Dale characters with names from Finnish runos I had just listened to - so just making everything a non-entity deprives the game of some of it's MMO value. I play with someone who is pretty unoriginal (she threw a hissy fit when "Cherry Longbottom" and other variants had been taken in DDO) and demanded that I use my D&D character name for my first toon, and when I deleted him (I played a priest because I had just rolled a DDO cleric, and BIG MISTAKE for a new player) she couldn't accept that Kohonen, while a good name and recognisable to her, was dead and dead and dead all over for the purposes of this game (and now the offline game where the original character was formed anyway...he was a pants sorceror/fighter and I rerolled a ranger and started being able to, like, y'know, hit things occasionally...).
So, yes, I like to have my name on the stuff I made, and I even gave something to someone else the other day rather than selling it to a vendor for cash. It adds to the game just as it adds to D&D offline to listen to the sorceror and bard catfight all night. If other people are so much background noise to you, I think you are in the wrong game.
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