A while ago, I got a seemingly innocuous announcement that Stardock were updating their user name system to eliminate non-alphanumeric characters. I used to have periods in my name here.

In fact, those periods were present when I started the huge-map Metaverse game that I *finally* finished last night. When the posting dialog popped up, my user name was locked in and the periods were still present, so my password did not match.

I've replied to the name-change message from support, but I thought I'd see if anyone out here can confirm my guess that the ludicrous amount of time I put into that game is lost to the Metaverse.

I also thought I should warn anyone else who might have had their username updated.