Diablo 3

[MysT_DooM]

So who's playing?  I started out with wizard.

Battletag: Myst#1649

[Sidoh]

I've been dicking around a bit, but probably won't have much of a chance to play past this weekend. Pretty fun!

[Blaze]

Maide#2730 is me

[Furious]

I've got a 33 Demon Hunter and just started toying around with a Barbarian, pretty good game!

Dave#1590

[iago]

Stupid question.. what's with the #nnnn after everybody's names? Is it just to make it harder to remember, or does it serve an actual purpose?

[Sidoh]

I'm not sure why they decided to do it, honestly. I think it's to probably to prevent frustration due to your name of choice being taken.

[Furious]

I'm not sure why they decided to do it, honestly. I think it's to probably to prevent frustration due to your name of choice being taken.

Pretty sure that's exactly why :P

[Sidoh]

Yeah... I guess it just seems a little stupid, though.

[Blaze]

Stupid question.. what's with the #nnnn after everybody's names? Is it just to make it harder to remember, or does it serve an actual purpose?

Basically you can choose (almost) any nickname for your battle.net account.  This nickname is called a 'battle tag'.  Once you've chosen your name, it'll automatically assign some numbers after it.  These numbers only show up when you're adding peoples to your friends list, or if there's two people with the same username in the same game.

[rabbit]

Also they banned 1337 as the numbers.  One of my friends had his #1337 and Blizzard changed it to #1335 on Thursday

[Chavo]

I wouldn't mind, but it makes it incredibly difficult to add friends without talking to them at the same time over some other medium, or looking up their email address (and possibly guessing which one to use). 

There is no good equivalent, that I've found so far, to /b a Maide   :(

[Blaze]

/friend add Maide#2730

That *might* work.  D3's chat does seem to be lacking a lot of functionality that I hope they add in future patches.

[MysT_DooM]

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[Hitmen]

Made it through hell fairly easy as a wizard, but inferno is just ridiculous.

[Sidoh]

I'm only in act 2 of hell as a wizard, but it's super easy. I never die and do too much damage, I think. At ~20K health, 3K damage, level 44.