Mojang is going to change the the (Player) name system to a UUID based system in MC update 1.8. All non-UUID server will be handeld as "offline" server.
UUID stands for "Universally Unique Identifier" (Wikipedia).
Also, every data/permission, that are based on "nicknames" will be unusable.
As an example:
My MC name: "LO1ZB"
My UUID: "1295d99051854fada72c6031433a755b"
I used this tool to get my UUID:
https://forums.bukkit.org/threads/tool-m...id.187571/
UUID stands for "Universally Unique Identifier" (Wikipedia).
Also, every data/permission, that are based on "nicknames" will be unusable.
As an example:
My MC name: "LO1ZB"
My UUID: "1295d99051854fada72c6031433a755b"
I used this tool to get my UUID:
https://forums.bukkit.org/threads/tool-m...id.187571/