Possibly. Presumably you mean as in the only Elum in AO was called Elum, and that the Steef will be the only one of his species to appear in OW4. Maybe we'll learn that this is indeed the case, but then again maybe it's that the Steef is an outcast from the rest of the Steef species, as some have speculated, meaning again we wouldn't be likely to see any other Steefs. Maybe this won't actually be referred to at all in the game.
Now, Lorne did mention that the Steef is inspired by Sergio Leoni (sp?) and the Man with no name, so maybe, just maybe, the Steef in the game has no real name, or is never mentioned by name (a la Kill Bill, which I haven't actually seen, but I've heard the 'protaganist' is never called by name), and hence there would only be one way of describing him - as 'the Steef'.
Or maybe we'll find out his name later.
However, I think it's important to note that in the X-Factor video, Raymond Swanland and Ed Fries usually refer to him as 'the Steef', while Lorne very clearly and broadly uses the term 'Steef' on its own, without the definitive article. Now, to me this means that either he's trying to mislead us, and given OWI's current secrecy settings that wouldn't surprise me, or that the Steef doesn't have a name and that he's been so wound up in development, where they would probably drop the 'the' to make communication between Inhabitants faster, as they do in most game productions, I believe. Ed also uses the term 'the Steef' in the Green Light meeting. I'm not sure if Lorne would ask Ed to keep in mind how secret they wanted things to be while in the meeting - maybe he would, maybe he wouldn't.
Anyway, just some thoughts as I'm waiting for off-games.
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