"Namechanged player here - Niantic unwilling to help! Is there no hope? Can we unite all nickname changed players who is not happy with the renaming?"

#PokemonGO: There has been several people reported, that Niantic changed their playername without any warning.For me and for many others, this is quite a big deal.I've been playing Pokémon GO since the release of the game, almost daily.Niantic changed my nickname without asking and without warning. Their explanation was that there were a system error which allowed players to claim names that were already in use. But being registered on 07/06/2016 with a unique nickname I've been using since 2000, I find it hard to belive that even if two other players registered the same name, they made it before me. Yet, I am the one who got renamed from "bagszi" to "bagszi3".I've been sending support tickets and mails to Niantic to resolve this seemingly small issue, but they are really unhelpful. At first they said, that I can rename myself using the namechange option. Yes, but my original nickname is unavailable.In their last support message Niantic said, that they are unable to rename me to the original name and If I want, they can grant me an another namechange option. But obviusly it does not solves the issue, I can't get back my old name.If they were able to rename me, there is no way that they can't rename me or the duplicates again.Judging by the other posts, I'm not alone with this problem, but there are seemingly no solution and no help at all. How can we reach Niantic and get real help from them?(Sorry for the grammar, I'm Hungarian) via /r/TheSilphRoad https://ift.tt/3acd2TH