Curse

faraaz · Nov 12, 2008, 03:30 PM // 15:30

Yes, yes a thousand times yes.

/Signed

romeus petrus · Nov 12, 2008, 03:41 PM // 15:41

/signed

^Mara has a real ugly sin, we desperately need to change her name to Mara Uglystrike.

BenjZee · Nov 12, 2008, 03:52 PM // 15:52

as long as it doesnt confused guild/alliance/friends lists. i do see someone changing their name though and then you stealing it off them so they cant change back.
or problems with reporting and scamming as people could change their name to something else. or someone getting wrongly accused by making their name what a scammers used to be

Either that or we could keep the name and let us change other features of the character. Mkaing it reasonable though hieght/skin colour is questionable. Hair on the other hand and dye (i know its been mentioned many times) would be acceptable.

Karate Jesus · Nov 12, 2008, 04:33 PM // 16:33

I think being able to change your name with a command or quest might be too riddled with problems. In GW, so much of our gameplay depends on your name (guilds, friends lists, XTH, etc.).

I think if they're going to do it, they should make it like an alias/nickname system. Make everyone keep their name the same, but have the option of typing /nickname or something and activating a name like a title. You could just type /nickname [name] then check a box under titles to show your new name, but under your guild and friends list, your name would be the same with your nickname in parentheses. Ex: Grenths Sidekick (Crazy Killa) or something.

The best part is, we already have this same system in place, so it probably wouldn't take much work. Also, nicknames fit into the GW story and theme.

Eragon Zarroc · Nov 13, 2008, 02:44 AM // 02:44

should of thought about the long term when u made ur character. everyone changing names all the time would be havoc /notsigned

Ima_Poundyou · Nov 14, 2008, 03:44 AM // 03:44

/SIGN, because I really want to do this. I've got one character that's become my "main," and I want to name all my characters around him. People have to check and see who it is when I get on another character because they only know me as one name.

I say it should be something like:

- Every 1 (2, 3) year(s) the account ages, every character on that account gets ONE renaming card (item, maybe?) that they can use to change their name.

OR

- Every 1 (2, 3) year(s) the character ages, that character gets ONE renaming card.

To prevent everyone being confused by constant name changes they only get 1 chance per year, and if necessary there could even be a note beside/underneath their name on friend/guild lists saying (formerly John Doe) for a week or some period of time, though I doubt that would be necessary and might be confusing when they're on another character than their main.

Of course, I don't know how the programming/development works so that might be a ton of work. No idea. Just my take on it.

Really hope to see some sort of name-changing system somewhere in the future.

Siniminister · Nov 14, 2008, 11:17 AM // 11:17

Absolutely /signed. I have a few characters whose names I really regret, but after 2+ years I can't bring myself to delete them.

Arcain · Nov 14, 2008, 08:28 PM // 20:28

This would be great, aways disliked my assassin's name, but could not bring myself to delete him after all the time spent on him.

Ultra Ranger · Nov 20, 2008, 05:19 PM // 17:19

dont make it chargable, and if you don't want people to abuse it, allow 4 or 5 re-names for each account.

m_marie_d · Nov 29, 2008, 06:44 AM // 06:44

Wow old thread why not post :P

Personally I think all my chars names through so I'm happy with them for the most part.... I do agree that this is a feature that should be implemented and there should be an account based time limit or some sort of fee or whatever......As far as scammers go all they would have to do is make this feature unavailable for any banned account for a certain amount of 'actual' play time as in say 50hrs/30 days or whatever so scammers don't abuse the feature(and u can always put them on ur ignore list as i'm pretty sure the lists are account based so as to not get rescammed

fool me once shame on u fool me twice shame on me :P ). As far as it messing with ur friends list if u added a friend on ur list their alias comes up in parentheses so assuming this is account based any char name linked to that account would do the same.........

I also like the idea of changing hair style and maybe color/face some styles look off with some armors/clipping ect or u just get tired of the same style u change in real life right? :P The other attributes should remain permanent changing height/skintone......if you want to change ur character to that extent u need to rethink then remake.

Just my nickel's worth /signed

snaek · Nov 29, 2008, 07:02 AM // 07:02

wow this thread is old
and so many ppl have /signed it o__o

imo if u cant think carefully of a name before makin ur chara thats ur own fault

if it were to be implemented
do wut other mmo's do and charge money for it
(yesh i mean in-real-life money @ the in-game store)

tmakinen · Nov 29, 2008, 08:26 AM // 08:26

Just find a random player to report the character whose name you want to change, telling ANet that <Character Name> spells <some obscene thing> in <a language that none of the administrators can speak>. After a short ban, change <Character Name> as requested. Problem solved

Tuesday · Nov 29, 2008, 07:45 PM // 19:45

/signed to change our in game names.

xabarasilmatto · Dec 01, 2008, 10:44 AM // 10:44

Quote:

Originally Posted by MSecorsky

Your character name is probably a unique key type of field in the databases, and what you see externally as a simple change probably needs to be spammed across databases... providing they even allow a key field to be changed.

/NOT Signed, out of respect for the devs.

think like this man.
Maybe they can make a "tool change name" but it must be on GW market for a simbolic price like 3.99 EUR.

¿Evan¿ · Dec 01, 2008, 01:32 PM // 13:32

Maybe 1x per character but more than once will just be abused.

/semi signed

Phantom Flux · Dec 02, 2008, 12:38 AM // 00:38

Quote:

Originally Posted by Holy Arch

I dont liek it. The ability to change your name whenever you please? It would get annoying because you wouldnt know who anyone of your friends are. I think a change look would be more realistic.

i mean the overall idea would be nice, but it would be abused

I agree.

/signed ONLY if we can change the appearance too. Such as hair and skin tone.

lorazcyk · Dec 06, 2008, 05:39 PM // 17:39

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ima_Poundyou

/SIGN, because I really want to do this. I've got one character that's become my "main," and I want to name all my characters around him. People have to check and see who it is when I get on another character because they only know me as one name.

I say it should be something like:

- Every 1 (2, 3) year(s) the account ages, every character on that account gets ONE renaming card (item, maybe?) that they can use to change their name.

OR

- Every 1 (2, 3) year(s) the character ages, that character gets ONE renaming card.

To prevent everyone being confused by constant name changes they only get 1 chance per year, and if necessary there could even be a note beside/underneath their name on friend/guild lists saying (formerly John Doe) for a week or some period of time, though I doubt that would be necessary and might be confusing when they're on another character than their main.

Of course, I don't know how the programming/development works so that might be a ton of work. No idea. Just my take on it.

Really hope to see some sort of name-changing system somewhere in the future.

Thanks for the great idea! I would *SO* take this card for all my characters, instead of those stupid pets... those pets just end up being given away to random people in Shing Jea.
Anyway, the card should be customized to the character, so you can't share it across characters, or sell it to other people.

For those that say "think about your name before you make a character"... I did.

I spent a month remaking my Rit (because of looks, not sure on gender, not sure on name, etc etc) that I eventually stopped doing it. but that was too late. I decided to stick with my 11th Rit who had beaten all the campaigns, but all the Elites, 2 sets of Elite armor. His name sucks. I made his name out of spite because I figured "well, since I'm probably going to delete him soon anyway, I might as well use a silly name this time". And well... now his name is Chains Excite Me (because when you make spirits, you've got those binding chains on them, so I thought it was apropriate to a ritualist, but sheesh, if you see me in town, I'll pay you 10k to report my name LOL *sob*) .... Uggggggggggggggggghhhh..... I don't think I can dedicate a few more months on a new Rit... so I kept him >_< ... Specially since my friends often ask I bring him for missions and stuff. They'd miss him!

I bought 2 character slots for the 2 names I want to keep, in case ANET allows us to rename our chars in the feature.

Pleaaaaaaaseee *begs* :P

/signed

Phantom Flux · Dec 06, 2008, 10:13 PM // 22:13

/signed.This is only if we can change appearance too. However, the name change feature would get abused as a free feature. There are a few names I'd like to change.

When would we get this feature?

Burning Freebies · Dec 07, 2008, 04:05 PM // 16:05

/signed

Because of the economic crisis and the character limit, i want to be able to change my characters names for my events, without deleting them after all the money ive invested into them, the time ive spent on them and the stuff i can still get from them.

Lord Of Blame · Dec 08, 2008, 04:00 PM // 16:00

/signed

Would love to see this! I just hope that Anet has seen the 60+ pages of this post that most all people have agreed too. If that is not enough for them to implement this change then I don't know what it will take.