Is there a reason to ask people for their names? To just try it out, I first just ignored it and pressed "Start". When that failed, I typed "a" as my name and tried again, which also failed.
The player name is used several places in the game to distinguish between different players. This is particularly useful in multi-player games. You can enter any name, the game doesn't care which. Is asking for player name a too high barrier?
Maybe there would be less objection if the question asked for a "player name" instead of "your name".