Posted by TWIZ

Oh, it was trendy. On iEra, 2011, there was a thing going around that if you put "*" on the end of your name, it declared that you were the original player using that name. I remember people used to use that as an argument:

Player 1: "I am the original Catz!"

Player 2: "No I am the original, I even have the '*' in my name!"

And then it was settled. No joke. Only the "pros" used it, since they had the advantage over being rightful when it came to a name argument, rather than new players who were seen as inferior and therefore didn't have the right to harness such names.