Do the Lost Satchel quests actually use the other character's name?

Question

I've gotten three lost satchel quests from someone named Norm. A lot of these seem too generic to be what real people are putting in as their names, if you pay attention to the variety of people's names in previous generations. I haven't gotten any names that appear to be a different language either.

Comments

Only if you turn on wifi, they’re real players. I’ve had some… unconventional names. I’ve gotten a few in Japanese, too.

You have to turn on wifi in the settings of the game.

Let me know if this is good enough to be an answer lol

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I think it’s good enough just add a source.

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Yeah, whoops, I forgot about this question I know that to be true you can answer with that ty

Answer 1

Before you allow WiFi on Legends Arceus, all the names belong to NPC’s.

After allowing WiFi, you get names from real, random players.

Source: I didn’t turn on WiFi on my Switch to prevent updates for a while, and when I did and allowed wifi connectivity in-game, it went from basic NPC names to real names in different languages and memes.