I assumed they were trying to be nice to users who hate having “supergamer” already taken so they just let everyone who wants “supergamer” use it and tack on so

I assumed they were trying to be nice to users who hate having “supergamer” already taken so they just let everyone who wants “supergamer” use it and tack on some numbers. Seems like a short term solution to seemingly make users happy but really leads to pain in the long run. I think this helps initially with 3rd gen services like discord where they don’t want to turn off users who can’t get a “good handle.” That and lots of discord users were just using it for small gaming groups so why should I need a globally unique id if I just want to talk to 8 friends playing counter strike? Of course, this sucks in the long run due to confusion around who is doing what when discord wants you to use it as a twitter competitor. And they are more established to inconvenience users to change their handles to unique.