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Burning Freebies · Dec 09, 2008, 05:45 PM // 17:45

Lord, its been 3 years since this thread started, so if they havent seen this, i will give the community relations people spam email telling them to visit this thread and consider this move!

spirit of defeat · Dec 09, 2008, 07:14 PM // 19:14

/ NOT signed

It would be confusing, people changing there names whenever they like.
When ever some tv series introduces new characters a lot will walk with that name.
Boring.

THINK before you chose a name

**cosyfiep** · Dec 09, 2008, 07:51 PM // 19:51

/not signed, same as the last poster above me.....think before you create your character....geez. Its not rocket science.

Brak · Dec 09, 2008, 08:01 PM // 20:01

/signed, To all the people that have not signed this why do you even care? Yea some people didn't think before they created a character and got stuck with a bad name, but for me when I started playing this game over three years ago I had no concept what I was doing and created all my PvE characters different names. Now that I do nothing but PvP I would love for all my characters to have the same first name, how is this going to ruin your gaming experience? Make it cost gold or whatever, but I would love to have this option not that it really matters now since the game is pretty much dead.

Domino · Dec 09, 2008, 08:31 PM // 20:31

Make it a feature that needs to be bought for *real* money at the Guild Wars store for 20.00 - This would prevent abuse and prevent retards from changing their player's names on a whim.

Burning Freebies · Dec 10, 2008, 04:28 PM // 16:28

Too much. Making it a one time only feature would get rid of everyone who has not signed's complaints. People cant abuse a 1 time only system, can they? And most of the people who want to change their names have 2 year old characters, so telling them to think is stupid.

Fitz Rinley · Dec 10, 2008, 04:36 PM // 16:36

Yes I agree.

I have always put a great deal of effort into my character names. But I know there are those who have named their on a whim of the moment or who did not have experience picking out names and have been inspired by others with more experience naming characters. I also know of several players who took over their kid's account when the kid quit playing or left home - they might or might not be interested in changing name (and/or appearance) to reflect themselves.

Siirius Black · Dec 10, 2008, 07:33 PM // 19:33

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fitz Rinley

Yes I agree.

I have always put a great deal of effort into my character names. But I know there are those who have named their on a whim of the moment or who did not have experience picking out names and have been inspired by others with more experience naming characters. I also know of several players who took over their kid's account when the kid quit playing or left home - they might or might not be interested in changing name (and/or appearance) to reflect themselves.

That's exactly right.
How do you think I ended up having my char name?

Later I bought the 3 campains + EOTN for my son, but I ended up with this name because of it.

Targren · Dec 10, 2008, 07:50 PM // 19:50

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.

Oh gods I hope not. That would be a royal fail for so many other reasons besides just the inability to change char names... (indexes, cascading updates, and string data types, oh my!)

carnage-runner · Dec 10, 2008, 08:14 PM // 20:14

New NPC's... Identity Scribes. (10K [or some nominal fee] per identity script)
Hair Stylist. Obviously.
Physical Alteration Specialist. (10K [or some nominal fee] per physical
alteration)

It can't be free, because technically you are altering your identity. Whether to hide you from something or for the novelty of it. It's an elected alteration, just like new armor, it should cost you money.

/signed provided there are some conditions. i.e. expenses...

Forgotton200 · Dec 10, 2008, 10:59 PM // 22:59

/signed.

But like some people already mentioned, make it cost real cash (similar to buying the extra character slot) so people don't abuse it.

Cloud_Deven · Dec 10, 2008, 11:28 PM // 23:28

I say make it how the moving to different servers was before we were able to switch whenever we wanted; make it like 2-3 times being able to change per char and thats it. that way people wont just change it again on a whim.

Burning Freebies · Dec 11, 2008, 08:52 PM // 20:52

Cloud Deven, thats right. Making people pay real money is ridiculous. Thats the whole reason why we dont want to have to delete the characters or make new ones with that name! If it is only allowe a few times, then great, im for it. And if people change it to a name that does not apply to the GW rules (inappropriate name) then ban them.

Siirius Black · Dec 11, 2008, 09:58 PM // 21:58

mmmm. I'm not too sure that paying real money is the solution. If you want to avoid abuse, you can gain, lets say a consumable that will allow you to change your name once you max 5 titles.

Or just plainly allow 1 name change only.

I would not pay to change the name. I prefer to use that money for our vent server or for the new game.

Cursed One · Dec 11, 2008, 10:49 PM // 22:49

/signed

as mentioned before make it relatively costly so that its not abused. Another possibility would be to have it in some remoted region that is hard to get to, as in having to beat most of the game o get to the town, or outpost

Lyynyyrd · Dec 12, 2008, 12:00 AM // 00:00

Report yourself and hope that they can find a reason to ban you / demand name change.

Burning Freebies · Dec 16, 2008, 09:21 PM // 21:21

*Siirius, im not sure having 5 maxed titles is fair. I know i almost have 5 maxed titles, but what about all those people who refuse to care about titles? I think only 1 name change is necessary. Then, you could pay half the price of a character slot for any more name changes needed.
*Cursed One, what if someone wants to stay in presearing and this "feature" is in post searing? Or what if someone cant get help to get somewhere, or wont want to go all that way to get it? This would get tonnes and tonnes of complaints.
*Lyynyyra-Well, i do have a slightly inappropriate character name, so i could try and get that changed.

Angelica · Dec 16, 2008, 10:41 PM // 22:41

Signed......But only if you can use this option only "once" per characters.

Some people regret the name they made in Hurry or they did not check the spelling.

/Angelica

Servatis · Dec 17, 2008, 01:18 AM // 01:18

This would be pretty sweet, just not sure how it would work out exactly. I think adding some sort of charge would help.

/signed

Sadchaos · Dec 17, 2008, 01:34 AM // 01:34

/signed

but you should only be able to change your character's name every 6 months or some time.