Curse

Fitz Rinley · Apr 24, 2009, 02:40 PM // 14:40

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Originally Posted by karen the healer

I refuse to spend $14.99 to change my name back. My luck, it would not work anyway. This is so making me sick.

I am not testing this, but I can say that just having the same name does not help. I wanted a new appearance 3+ years ago on something. I put the armor in storage, remade the character, and could wear none of it. This might be different with the name change system, since the base character is there someplace, but I also would not risk it.

FengShuiDove · Apr 24, 2009, 02:42 PM // 14:42

Sorry to hear about the unfortunate inconvenience. I have a question though:

When you did the makeover, did you change the character model itself or just face/hair? I ask because perhaps ANet tested name swap on existing character models but neglected for people who are changing to new models.

JR · Apr 24, 2009, 02:42 PM // 14:42

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Originally Posted by karen the healer

Omg I think I know what happened . I had a pvp character by the name Faith Highborne that I never played. I deleeted her prior to changing my name from Karen the Healer to Faith Highborne. Because I had once held that name on a pvp character I bet that cause a mess up. Think thats it?

That could well explain it.

I'm fairly at one point a long time they introduced measures to stop people creating PvP characters, putting the equipment in storage, deleting them and creating a PvE character of the same name to use the equipment.

Now equipment is tied by character ID and not name, but that may have not always been the case, and there could be some legacy code that caused your problem.

(Ok apparently that's not actually the case)

dr love · Apr 24, 2009, 02:46 PM // 14:46

HAHAHAHA man that's a kick in the nuts, but a great laugh

xDusT II · Apr 24, 2009, 02:47 PM // 14:47

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Omg I think I know what happened . I had a pvp character by the name Faith Highborne that I never played. I deleeted her prior to changing my name from Karen the Healer to Faith Highborne. Because I had once held that name on a pvp character I bet that cause a mess up. Think thats it?

I did the exact same thing but am not encountering problems. I had a pvp monk named Dust Xa which I deleted prior to changing my elementalist to the same name. No problems here.

karen the healer · Apr 24, 2009, 02:49 PM // 14:49

Everything in my HoM is tied to the old character name. Will I have use of it in guild wars2. To be honest I am pretty much done all I want to do in guild wars. My MAIN concern is that I do loose the 32 titles I had on that character. I went to the HOM and I can still see all the stuff I put in there. So I am safe with that at least, right? Please tell me that I am.

Jumping Is Uselss · Apr 24, 2009, 02:50 PM // 14:50

GG. Anet. Name Change editing is broken on birthday.

xDusT II · Apr 24, 2009, 02:52 PM // 14:52

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Originally Posted by Jumping Is Uselss

GG. Anet. Name Change editing is broken on birthday.

edit nvm

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Miss Puddles · Apr 24, 2009, 02:56 PM // 14:56

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Originally Posted by JR

Nice find, but you are misunderstanding it. You should still be able to use anything you previously had.

Ah, I see what you mean. So armor for example will still show customized to Old Name but character New Name should still be able to wear it. Odd, but makes more sense than losing everything I guess. Though the answer given on the site isn't totally clear either.

JR · Apr 24, 2009, 03:00 PM // 15:00

I finally found someone at ArenaNet who wasn't asleep and pinged them about the issue. Hopefully we should hear something soon.

Puddin Cheeks · Apr 24, 2009, 03:24 PM // 15:24

I know, it is a different circumstance, but doesnt your armor and weapons still work on your character after a name ban. That is essentially a name change right?. My weapons on my banned characters' names still have the old name but work as expected.

Spinny · Apr 24, 2009, 03:26 PM // 15:26

I just done a make over and name change from D Shot On Recharge to Dshot Shootz Ya.
Took armor piece off - went back on fine, took cust wep off - went back on fine, changed armor to cust norn - went on just fine.
No problems here.

cthulhu reborn · Apr 24, 2009, 03:32 PM // 15:32

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Originally Posted by karen the healer

Everything in my HoM is tied to the old character name. Will I have use of it in guild wars2. To be honest I am pretty much done all I want to do in guild wars. My MAIN concern is that I do loose the 32 titles I had on that character. I went to the HOM and I can still see all the stuff I put in there. So I am safe with that at least, right? Please tell me that I am.

Well, I changed name on my ele and the old name is still on the armours but I can equip them just fine.
I also have all my titles and stuff still.

I would think the bug is that you had your armours in the xunlai when you changed over. I had all of them in my inventory when I changed names and perhaps that's something they hadn't thought of yet.

Neez · Apr 24, 2009, 03:33 PM // 15:33

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Originally Posted by Miss Puddles

Though the answer given on the site isn't totally clear either.

Clearly, the way the answer is given isn't the problem here.

JR · Apr 24, 2009, 03:36 PM // 15:36

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Originally Posted by Puddin Cheeks

I know, it is a different circumstance, but doesnt your armor and weapons still work on your character after a name ban. That is essentially a name change right?. My weapons on my banned characters' names still have the old name but work as expected.

Equipment is tied to characters by a character ID, not by the name. That's what makes this issue so confusing.

I can't think of a reason why the character ID would change. Perhaps when some people change their name it creates a new character ID instead of using the original one?

The whole PvP character thing sounded plausible but apparently is not the case. Perhaps changing the characters appearance to a different campaign might be worth looking at as a possible cause... There's really no obvious ones to start with though.

The Arching Healer · Apr 24, 2009, 03:40 PM // 15:40

A guildie changed his name + looks like 3 hours ago and he doesn't have any problems.

MrTickle · Apr 24, 2009, 03:53 PM // 15:53

Well i'm not buying anything from the store until the pages actually load. I remember buying 2 x NF because the store was bugged/pages not loading.

I'm sure they'll fix your prob soon enough Karen

snaek · Apr 24, 2009, 04:02 PM // 16:02

im soooo glad that anet decided to skip this month's skill balance update for bug testing. it was soo worth it!

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Originally Posted by regina buenaobra

As you are aware, we are currently working very hard on our big April update. And of course, big updates need a lot of testing and resources. We want the update to be a high quality experience you can fully enjoy, so we are dedicating a lot of time to testing it. With a game as complex as Guild Wars and an update as significant as this one, very thorough testing is required. Every addition or change has the potential to affect other areas of the game, sometimes in unexpected ways. Skill changes also need to be fully tested, so we were running into a situation where we risked releasing either the skill balance or the April update itself without the level of polish, consideration, and testing that it should have.

JR · Apr 24, 2009, 04:10 PM // 16:10

These things slip through. Anet has a pretty good track record for testing, in general.

The difficulty is with the differences between the test server and the live server. Something that works on the test server just fine may somehow break when it's put up on the live server due to the different databases.

I'm not making excuses for them, this is a pretty epic bug, just saying it's not as simple as it might seem.

Regina Buenaobra · Apr 24, 2009, 04:47 PM // 16:47

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Originally Posted by karen the healer

I decided to do a name change on my primary character and a new appearance. Little did I know, it was a fatal mistake. Since all the elite sets of armour and weapons are customized to my old name. I can no longer use any of the armour or weapons I have gathered over 4 years. They still show in my HOM thank God. But I can no longer use them. I am totally naked now with no armour or weapons. This after spending $14.99 and then $9.99. I am so mad. I quit. I can so slap myself right now for being a fool.

Hi, karen the healer: the team is looking into this issue as we speak. More updates as they're available.