User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 04-06-'12 — E3 hub/@comment-5254145-20120627210032/@comment-4043223-20120628155228

Nah, after a time people will recognize you regardless because you will have friends in the community. Name changes are only confusing for the first few days but people get used to it fairly quickly. You can even add in that you went under a different username on you profile page.