& Any "decent" or "ok" names they have, I assume are names that inactive accounts had & made themselves, that people contacted support to take over the name, then support added them to premium names instead. Even if i had enough credits for a premium name, I just don't think it's worth it, could buy other things with said credits I could use over & over again, like clothes, rooms, furniture, a name is just a name, you can't do anything with it, so hundreds of dollars for a premium name is such a waste IMO.Īs for the names they have to offer, most of them are like: 3Z7, A5BN, RLC8H, literally. I kinda agree with the credit deals, but I feel premium names are on a whole other level. This is just my opinion on what they're doing to the platform. If buying usernames makes you happy, I'm glad you're happy. I support what people wanna do with their money, I'm aware. I've seen so many newcomers bullied or severely ignored. Which divides newcomers with longtime users/people with more money to throw at the platform. They are really fuelling that elistst and exclusive mentality. I get VU is a company, and is money motivated. I'm not sure if you have to buy a name change token on top of that. You already pay to remove "Guest_" from your username, and then they expect you to buy what they deem to be a fancy username, that should be free? I don't think it's fair to the user base. But I assume there still are.) Which kinda. When they first started the premium name shop. (Not to mention they got rid of credit resellers who made the prices fair.) So in general. The prices for everything on IMVU in CAD is too much. If I could make changes to the premium name shop, I would discontinue it, or at least make the prices reasonable & I don't think they should put names a user made themselves in there, especially since so many names are already taken. Slightly disappointed, but not surprised. So someone made that account with a 5 letter name, for free, then when you ask for it, even if you paid for a name change token, they put it in premium names for $120. It's almost like a trap, to ask you to suggest 5 names you want, just so they can put it in premium names because someone showed interest in it.
It's also known that if you contact support to take over someones name, if it's 5 letters, they put it into the premium name shop. £10-£20 would be more reasonable, but even that is pushing it, really. I'm not sure why anyone would pay $120 ( 150k credits - 5 letter name), & $200 ( 300k credits - 2 & 3 letter name) for a name that doesn't even have any benefits other than a false sense of grandeur. I personally think most of them are just a random assortment of letters & numbers. No hate to anyone who bought one, I'm just interested in everyone's views about it, even if they differ. ✦ What changes would you make to premium name shop? ✦ What do you think about the names they have to offer? Thank you for reading.I didn't see a recent post about them, so I wanted to make one. If you feel the same way and would like them to either remove the features or drop the prices, please sign this and help the IMVU community express their likes and dislikes of the changes being made. I feel like they are basically stealing from the community. They've made it basically affordable for people who aren't as well of as some other users and I find that wrong. I also feel like if the name isn't already on the premium list and someone ask for it, it shouldn't be put up on the list. I feel a decent but still high price of 30 dollars should be enough. I don't think they understand how much the community dislikes the feature and how the price really makes it hard for people to get names they really want. This petition was made to either get them to lower the price or remove the feature. I find 150 dollars to be extremely over priced for a simple name on a game. If you find a name you like that is 5 letters are under and ask about it they will put it on a review list and it will be shoved up on premium name list. 150,00 credits is worth 150 dollars for people who are not creators on IMVU who readily get credits.
The feature is so that any name 5 letters and under is placed on a list and you must buy them for 150,000 credits on IMVU. So for a while now IMVU has created a premium name feature.