When Blizzard announced the BattleTag feature, I decided to quickly jump on the bandwagon. Not because I was in the D3 beta or anything sensible lie that, but because I wanted to be known as me, as the identify that I have built up over the last years, that of Saund* in the various incarnations.
Knowing that there would be competition for particular names, I tried multiple variations on Saund* and got constantly rebuffed with the generic error telling me that apparently I had violated one of the rather vague naming guidelines. Given the amount of posting about this around the traps, I thought that this might be a teething problem.
I waited and retried several times over a period of a few weeks, then decided to bite the bullet and switch from the Saund* range to the other wow-related term near and dear to me, being the name of the blog. Now, call me paranoid, but I was thinking that there would hardly be a flood of people wanting their BattleTag to be NonSquishy.
See, I remember, back in the day, when ICQ was the elephant in the Chat room (boom boom, see what I did there?), I was very proud that my ID number was only in the 4 millions. That put me in pretty good (albeit mostly nerdy) company. I remember seeing a tag of someone, somewhere who was in the ten thousands ... NO WAY. That person immediately went up in my esteem and way up in their apparent cool factor. It was almost like name-dropping, seeing who had the best (one of the few circumstances outside weight loss where smaller is better! :) ) number.
You link these two together and I really did assume that I would have a 0001 or at the very least < 0005 number, for whatever it is worth. ... Except Blizzard are randomising the numbers, so my tag is something greater than 6000. Bah humbug. So much for my epeen! :)
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