Occasionally I notice new people in my friends list... people I've never heard of before and certainly don't remember ever friending. What the heck's happening? Has my friends list been hacked? Are they going to spam me with offers of in-game viagra? Is the world trying to convince me that I'm going mad? Am I actually going mad?
I'm 100% (well, OK, 99%) sure that the cause of the confusion is people changing their name. Suddenly an old familiar name vanishes and a new weird-as-hell name appears with no warning and no explanation. But now I have to search their profile and my friends list to try and work out who they used to be.
I understand that maybe a player wants to distance themselves from their old name but I think it would be fairer for everybody else if their profile gave us a clue as to what's going on. Maybe for a couple of weeks after the name change it lists their new name and also something like "The Glitch formally known as Snazzlefraz"
Thoughts?