So lets get this straight.. Our commander names are no longer unique?

[Bartizan]

I agree with the OP, although some dunderhead stole my player name so I had to adjust it slightly...

Shenanigans!!

 

[Iskariot]

Rubbish, ED was concieved as PC game. So I'm out exploring and come across a system I have yet to visit, only to find that I have actually visited it, because its got my name on it, even though I've never been there before.

That is a good point. A very important point. I can understand that would be annoying for some..

 

[Coccolino]

It would be just ridiculous also if I buy an XBox, run Elite, and can' t be myself.
Don't joke, please...

 

[Ozric]

Not surprised that the different platforms allow the same cmdr name. What does surprise me, Greatly I would say, is that there is any sort of crossover such as you describe. Can we really see Discovered By tags from XBox and later PS4? For one thing I was really hoping for a Fresh new galaxy when (if) PS4 comes along. It doesn't apply to things like CGs, right? Or Powerplay? I'm not matched against them in CQC.

Surely there is some mistake here??!? FD?

Why would there be a fresh galaxy? Apart from anything else imagine the resources it would take to store and maintain two.

They share everything, except seeing each other in the same space.

 

[CptXabaras]

have you any idea what this will do to my OCD ? I hope theres not 2 of me, im ok with 1 or 3 but no more or less

Is it 5 OK too?

 

[KWAiRT]

Good thing I used my Gamertag LOL but seriously that is pretty weak sauce...

 

[asphaltpilot]

...which isn't controlled by us.

Huh? I've played other games on Xbox where I determine what my user name is going to be after being prompted. So you're saying Microsoft specifies or is forcing Frontier to use gamertags as commander names in Frontier's own game?

 

[GunnerBill]

Using a real world analogy...

My name is "John Smith".

Mmhhhhh

 

[MottiKhan]

Play your way.

And if you want to be me, be me
And if you want to be you, be you
'Cause there's a million things to do
You know that there are

 

[Frank]

If anyone out there sees a "Frank" smashing into the side of a Coriolis Station, or being demolished by a Harmless Sidewinder I'd like them to consider that it might not be me that is being humiliated, but it is in fact my XBox doppleganger.

Just don't ask yourself how they managed to make their way over to the PC Galaxy

 

[Kerrash]

?...
Without being rude...

Rude? Nah. Maybe a smudge entitled but not rude

 

[Vandaahl]

On Xbox One the Commander name is their gamertag, which isn't controlled by us.

Michael

So yeah, thats that then.

 

[Cosmos]

Rude? Nah. Maybe a smudge entitled but not rude

Darn, I just checked your name for a xbox gamer tag and its already taken [sad]

 

[Javert]

I keep making the same complaint to Facebook but they just don't get it.

 

[EUS]

In conclusion PC/Mac players will never meet xbox players?
Tear down the wall(ed garden).

 

[Mephane]

On Xbox One the Commander name is their gamertag, which isn't controlled by us.

Oh my. This means any form of video or screenshot proof that a player cheated, harassed, insulted, spammed or combat logged in the game cannot be trusted any more. Someone could just get the game on XB1 and copy someone else's CMDR name from PC, then do shenanigans to get that person in trouble; even if customer support can sort it out and identify this situation, reputations could be ruined by this.

 

[edgar]

How does this work with "reserved" Commander names like "Braben" and "Jameson" then?

If FD can't control the gamertags that are used on Xbox, how can they stop someone from posing as CMDR Braben etc?

 

[JeffRyan]

Dear XBox Jeff Ryan,

Just. Be wonderful.

Love,
PC Jeff Ryan

 

[Bartizan]

How does this work with "reserved" Commander names like "Braben" and "Jameson" then?

If FD can't control the gamertags that are used on Xbox, how can they stop someone from posing as CMDR Braben etc?

I would suspect they can't unless they thought of this dilemma before now and reserved them.

 

[JetsonRING]

What madness is this?



You what?

So if I have this right, whilst we all share the same galaxy our commander names are now only unique to each platform (i.e. xbox, PC, PS4, linux, etc..).

Without being rude I'd like to point out that many of us paid to reserve our commander names for the game. Shouldn't our commanders be unique to the galaxy?

Simply FD's way of telling the player community that PC players, XBone players and PS4 players will never, ever, EVER meet in a common universe.