LogFAQs > #966077093

Greetings, long time GameFAQs user!

Due to the merging of three completely different systems over the last twenty-five years (contributors, message boards, and the universal login system), users could have up to three different usernames, each with different rules and standards for how those names could be constructed. However, in the next few months, GameFAQs will be moving to a brand new authentication provider, and in the process of this change we'll be reducing the number of user names associated with an account to one. You are one of the last 4,837 users who have more than one account name, and we'd like to make this transition as smooth as possible.

Although spaces in names will no longer be allowed (as these have caused a myriad of issues for years), we are extending the possible length of a user name to 20 characters indefinitely for legacy users. We understand that for some of you this will be an imposition, but we want to make sure you get to use the user name (or names) you want on the site.

Your current site name is used for Answers, Private Messages, My Games, logging in, and all other activities except the Mesage Boards and Contributions.

Your current message board name is only used on the Message Boards.

However, these are just suggestions; you can change your account name to any valid and available name you want.

If you have the time, please visit our user name change request form and select a single name you'd like to use across the entire site (including Boards and Contributions). While you will no longer be able to use spaces, you can select any other available name up to 20 characters long as long as it meets our current naming guidelines (consisting of alphanumeric characters, numbers, dashes, and underscores). If you have a more complicated request (including splitting off or anonymizing contributions), please use that same form and provide a detailed explanation of what you want to do. We're more than happy to work with you to get your account set up the way you want, even including allowing you to take over the name of a currently existing but inactive account in some cases.

If you don't request a user name change by Thursday, July 7, we'll automatically set your name to be your current site name. Even after this date, you can still request a name change to the one you'd rather have (including the 20 character restriction).

We'd like to thank you for being such a long-time member of GameFAQs, and we're excited to have had you stick around for this long. We'll be making some pretty big changes this year, including at least one big one that you just might actually like, and we hope you'll continue to stick around for the next 27 years.



...can't wait to see how this one goes catastrophically wrong!

Also, I'm apparently one of the last 4,837 users who have more than one account name. Cool, I suppose?

Also also, if any of you have an old account but don't really bother checking your private messages, you might want to see if you got one of these if you have different names and need to pick one.