Question : GW2 character name? - Guild Wars Forums

yukimura_gw · Sep 19, 2007, 05:46 PM // 17:46

Does name taken in Guild Wars will be reserved in
Guild Wars 2? If yes, for how long? If no, first
arrived first served?

Thank you. ^_^

Turbobusa · Sep 19, 2007, 05:49 PM // 17:49

great question.
I was wondering the same for guild names.
Not that I want my guild name to be safe, just to keep famous names out of some idiot's hands.

lucifer_uk · Sep 19, 2007, 05:52 PM // 17:52

Correct me if I'm mistaken but I'm sure ANET said there would be a method to transfer names only into Guild Wars 2. And some kind of transfer for Guilds (no word on what though).

gsampl4 · Sep 19, 2007, 06:32 PM // 18:32

Way too soon to speculate on that since it will not even be in beta till sometime next year. Since they have the HOM though and it unlocks stuff for GW2 then I would think your names would be reserved atleast for some time.

Loviatar · Sep 19, 2007, 06:44 PM // 18:44

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Way too soon to speculate on that since it will not even be in beta till sometime next year.

it is not speculation.

they announced that names would be saved.

Mordakai · Sep 19, 2007, 07:09 PM // 19:09

Well, there's some speculation involved as we do not know all the details.

Will only people who've entered the HoM have their name's reserved? (not necessarily anything unlocked, just walked into the HoM).

Or will all 4 million players have all their names reserved from all their accounts.... that seems unlikely. Esp. with accounts that have not been used in years.

Just to be safe, I'm going to at least get all the Characters who I want their names reserved to enter the HoM.

My Sweet Revenga · Sep 19, 2007, 07:50 PM // 19:50

My best guess is that the names will be reserved, but in a customized manner. So say for instance your name is Bob Dillan. In GW2, if you choose the option to carry the name forward, it will become "Bob Dillan II" where the II will be tacked on the end to show that it was carried over from GW1. This would also mean that some other person could take the name "Bob Dillan" in GW2. By using this method, people who start playing GW2 very late will still be able to carry their character name forward. Altho, it might seem kinda silly considering how many "II" people there will be in the game. Even more awkard would be people in GW1 who went and named their character something like "Andy Kaufmann II". Then in GW2 they would be "Andy Kaufmann II II".... I mean what kind of a name is andy kaufman tootoo? Sounds egyptian

The alternative which I would prefer, is if instead of tacking a suffix like "II" at the end, they highlight our name in gold or green colour to show that your character is unique and from GW1. The problem here is if you meet another person with the same name as you, it might get confusing if people forget about the name text colour. It'd be like confusing Brad Pitt the actor with Brad Pitt the insurance salesman from small town kentucky. That and also the person with the same name but the default name text colour (to signify that they are a native GW2 character) might be crucified as a hack or a fraud or "not the real deal"..... knowing some of the childish people who play guild wars, this is not too farfetched. But even so, personally I'd prefer this method. Just make the name text a unique colour to show GW1 prestige.

Just realized, I dunno how it'd be possible to message the right person so I dunno how my 2nd idea would work heh. Bleh let ANET figure it out =b

wetsparks · Sep 19, 2007, 08:02 PM // 20:02

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Originally Posted by My Sweet Revenga

My best guess is that the names will be reserved, but in a customized manner. So say for instance your name is Bob Dillan. In GW2, if you choose the option to carry the name forward, it will become "Bob Dillan II" where the II will be tacked on the end to show that it was carried over from GW1. This would also mean that some other person could take the name "Bob Dillan" in GW2. By using this method, people who start playing GW2 very late will still be able to carry their character name forward. Altho, it might seem kinda silly considering how many "II" people there will be in the game. Even more awkard would be people in GW1 who went and named their character something like "Andy Kaufmann II". Then in GW2 they would be "Andy Kaufmann II II".... who the hell is andy kaufman double cinder blocks?

The alternative which I would prefer, is if instead of tacking a suffix like "II" at the end, they highlight our name in gold or green colour to show that your character is unique and from GW1. The problem here is if you meet another person with the same name as you, it might get confusing if people forget about the name text colour. That and also the person with the same name but the default name text colour (to signify that they are a native GW2 character) might be crucified as a hack or a fraud or "not the real deal"..... knowing some of the childish people who play guild wars, this is not too farfetched. But personally, I'd prefer this method. Just make the name text a unique colour to show GW1 prestigue.

That second part made no sense, meet someone with the same name as you? I would be very surprised if they changed that part of Guild Wars considering your name is how people stay in contact with you and if more than one person has the same name....
Also, they stated that character names will be saved and the only way to get them in GW2 will be if you connect your GW2 account to your GW1 account which is how you would be getting stuff from the HoM anyways.

OlMurraniKasale · Sep 19, 2007, 08:05 PM // 20:05

I'm not a fan of saving character names personally. New game, new everything. ! I also want to be able to have a z axis, so I expect that to be true in GW2. lol
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My Sweet Revenga · Sep 19, 2007, 08:19 PM // 20:19

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That second part made no sense, meet someone with the same name as you? I would be very surprised if they changed that part of Guild Wars considering your name is how people stay in contact with you and if more than one person has the same name....
Also, they stated that character names will be saved and the only way to get them in GW2 will be if you connect your GW2 account to your GW1 account which is how you would be getting stuff from the HoM anyways.

Yeah I just realized the messaging thing would be a problem. But really, a lot of names have already been taken. ANET can't just reserve ALL names that have been in use for GW1 already because that would seriously limit a lot of options. That and there are many names I wanted to use but were already taken. I added those names to my friends list to see how active these people are, and lo and behold most of these people have not been online for MONTHS. So it's pretty safe to assume that these people are never coming back to play GW1. If they also don't play GW2, then their names would be locked out forever. So no I don't think ANET would reserve every name, hence my assumption that they would do something to make similar names somehow co-exist at the same time in GW2, whether adding a suffix or modifying the name entity to signify prestige. This would make the most sense since it would keep most people happy, except for those who don't won't any kind of suffix added to their name....

What I'm really afraid ANET is gonna do is do some kind of pre-order or collector's edition gimick and give a 3-day head start where you ONLY have these 3 days to reserve or carry forward your char's name, and it's first come first serve. God I hope they don't use this method cuz it's be just one huge flame fest on guru with 20 individual threads complaining about stolen char names......

Zahr Dalsk · Sep 19, 2007, 08:21 PM // 20:21

I'm glad our names will be saved.

I don't want someone taking my name in Guild Wars 2. Period.

Loviatar · Sep 19, 2007, 08:36 PM // 20:36

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ANET can't just reserve ALL names that have been in use for GW1 already because that would seriously limit a lot of options. That and there are many names I wanted to use but were already taken.

look carefully

yes they can and yes they will like it or not

they said your present GW1 names would be reserved IF YOU CHOSE TO DO SO

the GW1 names used in GW1 are not going to be available for you to grab in GW2 as someone may wait a few months before buying GW2 after it is released.

so you have no imagination and someone else beat you to legolas

My Sweet Revenga · Sep 19, 2007, 10:36 PM // 22:36

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look carefully

yes they can and yes they will like it or not

they said your present GW1 names would be reserved IF YOU CHOSE TO DO SO

the GW1 names used in GW1 are not going to be available for you to grab in GW2 as someone may wait a few months before buying GW2 after it is released.

so you have no imagination and someone else beat you to legolas

1) I wouldn't be caught dead using any name from LOTR. f*** legolas. In fact, none of my names are immediately recognizable without some thinking or knowing the reference. So I was surprised when I found that some of the names I came up with that I thought were rather obscure, witty and imaginitive, had already been taken. Maybe I'm just thinking too hard....

2) I'm rather hoping that by some miracle, ANET might read some of the comments in this thread and consider the pros and cons of maybe finding an alternate solution rather than "OK let's just lock down all 5 million names (rough estimate) even if half of them and the accounts they are linked to haven't been in use in the last 3 years". But you know what? If they only increase the name character limit beyond 19 chars, that alone would probably make most people happy. I know I'd be happy since I've had plenty of name ideas that turned out to be 20-21 chars long...

3) I assumed ANET can't just lock down all the names because there's no reason to. Probably the only way to transfer your name to GW2 is through the HOM? Then simply don't reserve a name if the account doesn't have GWEN. If you don't have GWEN why bother reserving any name on that account as they clearly have no intention of guaranteeing using the name again in GW2? Thus, there's no reason for ANET to lock down EVERY name in GW1.

btw @ Loviatar, if you're gonna just say something like "look carefully"..... at what? What am I lookin for exactly? How skillfully you can type boldfaced?

You've posted twice now that you seem to have the facts, but without posting any kind of source so the least you can do is link your source so we don't all have to individually go hunting for what we "think" you're referring to. You know what search is like on Guru.

wetsparks · Sep 21, 2007, 04:12 AM // 04:12

I think that it would make sense to reserve them for GW2 through the hall of monuments, but what if someone has the original guild wars + factions. Then picks up GW2, find it to be a lot of fun and sees all this stuff other people got from their old guild wars account and he remembers, "Hey, I got a GW1 account, why don't I go pick up GW:EN (which would probably be $20 by then) and then I can get some of this stuff." His character enters hall of monuments, which by your idea would reserve his name in GW2, and when he next logs onto GW2 decides to remake his old character, and lo and behold, it is taken, then what? Is it the other person's fault or his because didn't pick up GW:EN soon enough?

Shadowfox1125 · Sep 21, 2007, 04:25 AM // 04:25

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Originally Posted by Mordakai

Well, there's some speculation involved as we do not know all the details.

Will only people who've entered the HoM have their name's reserved? (not necessarily anything unlocked, just walked into the HoM).

Or will all 4 million players have all their names reserved from all their accounts.... that seems unlikely. Esp. with accounts that have not been used in years.

Just to be safe, I'm going to at least get all the Characters who I want their names reserved to enter the HoM.

Yeah, but if you had to simply reach HoM, it would force people to buy EotN, right? What about those who don't have GWEN? Just a thought.

Wrath of m0o · Sep 21, 2007, 08:06 AM // 08:06

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Originally Posted by Shadowfox1125

Yeah, but if you had to simply reach HoM, it would force people to buy EotN, right? What about those who don't have GWEN? Just a thought.

Heh, people with all 4 campaigns pick first, its the only fair way

Most people even thinking about GW2's names already have 3 characters at HoM and are selling Droknar keys for 8k...pfft

Sep 19, 2007, 05:46 PM // 17:46	#1
yukimura_gw Frost Gate Guardian Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Quebec Profession: Rt/Me	Question : GW2 character name? Does name taken in Guild Wars will be reserved in Guild Wars 2? If yes, for how long? If no, first arrived first served? Thank you. ^_^

Sep 19, 2007, 05:52 PM // 17:52	#3
lucifer_uk Wilds Pathfinder Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Nottingham, England Guild: The Venerable Truth [TvT] The Venerable Alliance [TvH] [TvL] Profession: R/	Correct me if I'm mistaken but I'm sure ANET said there would be a method to transfer names only into Guild Wars 2. And some kind of transfer for Guilds (no word on what though). Last edited by lucifer_uk; Sep 19, 2007 at 06:18 PM // 18:18..

Sep 19, 2007, 07:50 PM // 19:50	#7
My Sweet Revenga Krytan Explorer Join Date: Nov 2005 Profession: R/	My best guess is that the names will be reserved, but in a customized manner. So say for instance your name is Bob Dillan. In GW2, if you choose the option to carry the name forward, it will become "Bob Dillan II" where the II will be tacked on the end to show that it was carried over from GW1. This would also mean that some other person could take the name "Bob Dillan" in GW2. By using this method, people who start playing GW2 very late will still be able to carry their character name forward. Altho, it might seem kinda silly considering how many "II" people there will be in the game. Even more awkard would be people in GW1 who went and named their character something like "Andy Kaufmann II". Then in GW2 they would be "Andy Kaufmann II II".... I mean what kind of a name is andy kaufman tootoo? Sounds egyptian The alternative which I would prefer, is if instead of tacking a suffix like "II" at the end, they highlight our name in gold or green colour to show that your character is unique and from GW1. The problem here is if you meet another person with the same name as you, it might get confusing if people forget about the name text colour. It'd be like confusing Brad Pitt the actor with Brad Pitt the insurance salesman from small town kentucky. That and also the person with the same name but the default name text colour (to signify that they are a native GW2 character) might be crucified as a hack or a fraud or "not the real deal"..... knowing some of the childish people who play guild wars, this is not too farfetched. But even so, personally I'd prefer this method. Just make the name text a unique colour to show GW1 prestige. Just realized, I dunno how it'd be possible to message the right person so I dunno how my 2nd idea would work heh. Bleh let ANET figure it out =b Last edited by My Sweet Revenga; Sep 19, 2007 at 08:12 PM // 20:12..

Sep 19, 2007, 05:49 PM // 17:49	#2
Turbobusa Forge Runner Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: By the Luxon Scavenger Guild: The Mentalists [THPK] Profession: N/	great question. I was wondering the same for guild names. Not that I want my guild name to be safe, just to keep famous names out of some idiot's hands.

Sep 19, 2007, 06:32 PM // 18:32	#4
gsampl4 Academy Page Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: US, Georgia Guild: LORD Profession: R/Mo	Way too soon to speculate on that since it will not even be in beta till sometime next year. Since they have the HOM though and it unlocks stuff for GW2 then I would think your names would be reserved atleast for some time.

Sep 19, 2007, 07:09 PM // 19:09	#6
Mordakai Grotto Attendant Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Kyhlo Profession: W/	Well, there's some speculation involved as we do not know all the details. Will only people who've entered the HoM have their name's reserved? (not necessarily anything unlocked, just walked into the HoM). Or will all 4 million players have all their names reserved from all their accounts.... that seems unlikely. Esp. with accounts that have not been used in years. Just to be safe, I'm going to at least get all the Characters who I want their names reserved to enter the HoM.

Sep 19, 2007, 08:05 PM // 20:05	#9
OlMurraniKasale Krytan Explorer Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Seattle Guild: Zaishen Order Profession: Rt/	I'm not a fan of saving character names personally. New game, new everything. ! I also want to be able to have a z axis, so I expect that to be true in GW2. lol -------------------- Storytelling Events Schedule and Tales Told!

Sep 19, 2007, 08:21 PM // 20:21	#11
Zahr Dalsk Grotto Attendant Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Canada	I'm glad our names will be saved. I don't want someone taking my name in Guild Wars 2. Period.

Sep 21, 2007, 04:12 AM // 04:12	#14
wetsparks Desert Nomad Join Date: Nov 2006	I think that it would make sense to reserve them for GW2 through the hall of monuments, but what if someone has the original guild wars + factions. Then picks up GW2, find it to be a lot of fun and sees all this stuff other people got from their old guild wars account and he remembers, "Hey, I got a GW1 account, why don't I go pick up GW:EN (which would probably be $20 by then) and then I can get some of this stuff." His character enters hall of monuments, which by your idea would reserve his name in GW2, and when he next logs onto GW2 decides to remake his old character, and lo and behold, it is taken, then what? Is it the other person's fault or his because didn't pick up GW:EN soon enough?