Curse

Martin Alvito · Jul 06, 2009, 03:13 AM // 03:13

What are you preserving by renaming rather than reforming? Guild formation date? Record/rating? Guild Hall NPCs?

You're talking about a limited market that won't pay very much for the convenience. The devs wouldn't recoup the cost of the programmer hours necessary to implement the change through sales.

Evaine · Jul 06, 2009, 05:43 AM // 05:43

I doubt that this will ever happen but if it did then I'd consider doing it.

I was given a fully stocked Kurzick guild hall that I've kept so we could use the NPCs. When I got that guild hall it became less of a priority to get all of the NPCs for the primary guild hall, so it's still only partially stocked.

The guild I was given has an OK name but I think I'd change it if I could and maybe switch it to the primary guild if that would be possible.

ETA: How much would I pay? I'm not sure. I'm used to paying for stuff that I want so if the price isn't too outrageous then I'd probaly do it.

NoXiFy · Jul 06, 2009, 02:09 PM // 14:09

Really, really retarded idea.

All the sold gold trims, WM, eF, DF... are now... [rawr]! Yes it's possible for a bad guild to get a gold trim with the same tag as a previous, but that has yet to be done.

Yawgmoth · Jul 06, 2009, 02:54 PM // 14:54

There should be NO such option at all. Horrible idea really, for many many different reasons.

In the first place guild names and tags shouldn't be changable at all! No matter the cost.

If it was an option competetive guilds would abuse that heavily to gain advantage in tournaments. Just look at Hero Battles tourneys where players change their account names all the time.

Other reasons were mentioned here already, like selling that service for real $$ allowing players to sell that for ingame gold effectively leading into you know what.

esthetic · Jul 06, 2009, 08:32 PM // 20:32

The idea is that, it is convenient over reforming guild. Someone may want to pay $14.99 over having to reform the guild add all the NPC's and reinviting all the members some may have been not been online for over a month. And the idea that it is the same guild with a new name rather than a different guild or a successor guild may be appealing.

And guilds change over time, along with the members, leaders, officers and perhaps they may want to change the guild name to more appropriately reflect the guild in its current form.

It is a limited feature and I do not know how it would work as only the gulid leader would be able to change the name and or tag.

Regarding PvP, knowing your opponent is helpful, but don't what the players run determine actual build and not the guild itself?

Short · Jul 06, 2009, 08:44 PM // 20:44

I would pay 2k, same as for making the guild in the first place. Perhaps 4k as punishment from ANet for changing your mind.

Real money? Hell no.

Hyper.nl · Jul 07, 2009, 10:04 AM // 10:04

€ 0,-

I have no interest in leading a guild anyways.

AmbientMelody · Jul 07, 2009, 10:22 AM // 10:22

People ... it seems like you went paranoid after latest micro-transactions update, so let me clear something for you ... as soon as Anet, NCSoft or whatever makes up an idea about charging you for such a thing, it will get into the game, and don't think it wasn't considered earlier. It was, and was rejected for a good reason. Charging for such a thing real money would mean an ultimate death to this game, and there are many other examples of what not to charge someone a money for.

If you ask me will I pay 100-200% more for each game campaign with actual content, I will say yes, as long as it's quality making and long lasting experience. If you ask me will I pay for some gay stuff like changing guild name or character name or my character face, then my answer is no. Such transactions undermine the spirit of the game and it doesn't matter if the game is b2p or p2p. It's a cheap technique used in f2p games, where the only source of income comes from adverts and small pool of paying customers for all sort of 'premiums', 'uber items', 'costumes' and 'mounts'.

Greed doesn't justify real needs of a business. You can be honest and still make a good business, or turn off your most loyal base just to get an additional cherry on the pie. Guess what, it won't contribute to better game but for premium pay for some NCSoft manager in Seoul, at the very least to Anet game developers and programmers.

Tyla · Jul 07, 2009, 09:22 PM // 21:22

I'd pay a maximum of £2-3. A character slot is roughly £6, but that's lasting the time your account is up on the servers. I wouldn't mind changing my Rangers' name, but at the end of the day it's not like it's something completely absurd.