Hahahaha.
I've been whining about this for almost a year now. Theres a couple other people on Tarlach that want it as well (one of which has dam good reason to). There's rumors that have been floating around. The most recent of which is that Server Change/Name Change cards are to come out in May. It's all total speculation at this point (Trust me i've done my research on it). It's VERY hard to say since they do have the ability to implement it and NA Nexon is out for our cash not our feelings (which is quite obvious). However it is a crap ton of work to go about, proof of it existing overseas is sketchy at best and considered nonexistent (my theory anyway judging by the allotment of overseas players responses). While yes this would be a great revenue for NA nexon and in psychological theory would help with the several "abuse cases" they obtain daily it would also add to the scamming count since it would be so much easier to do so and it would of course leads to complications with things moving from server to server if that part were in it.
Honestly all you can do is sit on what you have and do one of two things:
a. Wait and see who is right if they come or don't come.
or
b. Start over with your desired name and carry on with life. (Not my advice to anyone who is over level 500 total).
I wrote a whole essay about the pros and cons of implementing such a service in a ticket to nexon as a feedback ticket. Honestly that's all you can do if you really want it. Keep in mind what your asking for though. This can easily make the drama of a server increase if your looking to avoid drama. As well as can lead to a great deal more maintenance than what we already have. I know my side as some on ehre probably do from my whining of past. But I know and understand what i'm asking for.
Hopefully that clears a bit at least for you.
My advice:
If it bugs you *that* much and you aren't very far into your character - start over and keep this character as a mule.
Edit.
Quote from Chiri;22516:
Issues with reputation.
Say someone is famous, then they change their name.
What happens when someone else takes their old name? There would be issues with impersonation and what not.
That's hardly a reason Nexon would care about. That has already occurred through the reporting system. Theres player on the Tarlach server that had their name reported, "Sonovabish" (Theres way worse named on our server now too) and someone reported their name as inappropriate. So nexon came in and changed his name to Flyingpanda. Holy hell was he pissed when some n00b appeared not very long after with the name "Sonovabish".
As uncommon as the above is. if someone *really* wanted to mess with someone for reputation and can find any reasonable excuse for a name to be changed someone can simply report you to do so.
Most players that are further in the game would probably not change their name as judging by my conversations with several "pros" about this occurring.
Also most people with a reputation that would change their name will have probably informed anyone important. It's most likely upon a change of name that the name shown in a contact list would also change thereby destroying anyone claiming to be someone else after a name change has occurred.
Perhaps among smaller groups of the Mabinogi population could have trouble such as that but for the most part the "rich and the famous" will back each other up in the event of an attempt of identity theft via name change.