Curse

Ristaron · Feb 23, 2006, 10:27 PM // 22:27

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Originally Posted by Daena

I do agree though that there is currently no option to completely leave the game and turn in your character names for others to use.

Untrue. Once a character is deleted, its name becomes available for use by anybody.

Age · Feb 23, 2006, 11:50 PM // 23:50

There are guildies in my guild that haven't been on in months close to 9 and the original founder of the guild hasn't been on in months.I would say if they were going to delete those names that the account holders need to be contacted.

Cjlr · Feb 24, 2006, 12:14 AM // 00:14

There are four kinds of character names:

First, is the ripoff name. These are the guys who try to name their characters after LOTR but can't because someone else did way back in April. So they decide to spell it wrong instead. Not only is it crappy, but it's probably also already taken.

Second, is the "name generator" types. You know, the ones where the first name is some random type of tree or something and the last name is composed of two random parts, making something uninspired like Stonecrusher or Skygrasper or Shadowbane or such crap. Probably won't be taken, but still suck (in my humble but correct opinion).

Third are the joke names. Trodgor the Burninator is my favorite. But there's lots of these too. Ward Against Idiots comes to mind.

Fourth, my personal favorite, are the name names. You know, ones that aren't pretentious or stupid. Like the ones I chose (

). They won't be taken either.

m0gden · Feb 24, 2006, 01:34 AM // 01:34

I apologize to anyone who wanted the name of "Octopus Prime" for the three months that I was inactive. Honestly though, I'm quite thankful that my characters were not removed over a long period of time! I saved up a lot of gold during this and the deletion of my characters would have turned me away from returning to GW. Well, that or I'd sign in once a month to keep the name refreshed. I don't think it is all that hard to come up with an original name though sometimes it can be a little annoying to not choose a name you really enjoyed.

{IceFire} · Feb 24, 2006, 01:44 AM // 01:44

Just be like me and use Roman names

no one take my last name please though :/\

c4sped · Feb 24, 2006, 02:03 AM // 02:03

A-net deleting chars is not a good solution. you take a break for a year only to comeback to an empty account that would not be to much fun.

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Originally Posted by Isis Mordecai

added a lil bit of unpopular mythology with the word Mordecai as my last name

um very uncool its not mythology its a religious text thats like saying Jesus was a myth and it is not unpopular thats like saying being black is unpopular b/c its the minority.

for those that are not Jewish and are confused the history of purim(notice the histoy not myth) its kind of dumbed down but its mostly there

and sorry to break up the conversation for the flame

aeroclown · Feb 24, 2006, 02:19 AM // 02:19

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Originally Posted by Daena

I agree that finding a new name will get harder.
To be honest I have no idea what Anet will do about that, but I am certain that they are aware of this problem.
However, just deleting a character's name cause they haven't played for 30 days seems a bit too harsh to me. I personally think that they will give us more options to make new character names e.g. longer names, one word names, etc.

I do agree though that there is currently no option to completely leave the game and turn in your character names for others to use. I mean if someone has decided to stop playing GuildWars alltogether (God knows why

), that account cannot be cancelled and the names stay registered as "taken". Maybe Anet should consider this option?

Upon deleteion of a character names are only held for a short period of time, in fact possibly as short as 60 mins. I don't remember the exact time but no they are not locked forever.

Katari · Feb 24, 2006, 02:23 AM // 02:23

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cjlr

There are four kinds of character names:

First, is the ripoff name. These are the guys who try to name their characters after LOTR but can't because someone else did way back in April. So they decide to spell it wrong instead. Not only is it crappy, but it's probably also already taken.

Second, is the "name generator" types. You know, the ones where the first name is some random type of tree or something and the last name is composed of two random parts, making something uninspired like Stonecrusher or Skygrasper or Shadowbane or such crap. Probably won't be taken, but still suck (in my humble but correct opinion).

Third are the joke names. Trodgor the Burninator is my favorite. But there's lots of these too. Ward Against Idiots comes to mind.

Fourth, my personal favorite, are the name names. You know, ones that aren't pretentious or stupid. Like the ones I chose (

). They won't be taken either.

'Ya missed one!

When the name is a phrase, or word, there is a fine line between funny, cool, and well, ugh. I'm talking about people with names like these:

"I R Ownzor"
"Killerz Warriorz"
"G O D N E C R O"
Etc.

I don't know about you, but I think A.Net put in the two word rule for a reason. Atempting to bypass that by spacing out letters looks horrific, the all caps dosn't help it any either. >_<

lishi · Feb 24, 2006, 02:31 AM // 02:31

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Originally Posted by Diablo™

I do wonder where Anet manage to store all those data? So many idle accounts...

probably becouse a account information wont take too much space...

even if a character take like 10-20k to be stored with

10k * 20 million char is something like 20gb (my notebook have 30gb...)

sure there will some probrem indexing everthing for fast access but there are plenty way to minimize or counter the probrem

Daena · Feb 24, 2006, 09:52 AM // 09:52

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Originally Posted by Ristaron

Untrue. Once a character is deleted, its name becomes available for use by anybody.

That's my point exactly.. not everyone deletes their characters even though they've decided to stop playing GW.

So, for all I know now, those names could be taken for 1 year.. since Anet will not delete. Even if the person uninstalls the game, the data will still be on Anet's servers?!?
I'm just saying... there could be an option to let Anet know they have permission to delete your info... meh

Charqus · Feb 24, 2006, 11:55 AM // 11:55

lol ive thought about this in the past.
AT one point i was adding random names to friends list and see what they come up with and then delete it.
I tried an experiment by leaving odd ones on to see if any1 goes on and they didnt so i removed em after 2 weeks :P
I mean what geek would call theyre character harry potter lol

Soul Shaker · Feb 24, 2006, 12:03 PM // 12:03

you'll find one...

But, for name reservations, it's 60 mins after the character has been deleted that the name becomes available. This is so you can re-create your char without losing the name.

And when i struggle for pvp names, i just use for say my monk is : Teh Monkzar, and a water ele is Teh Watar Maeg. Intentional mispelling just adds to the ownage factor.

Esprit · Feb 24, 2006, 12:56 PM // 12:56

Tsk, don't delete idle names. I registered a name for my Factions character a month ago, and I don't use it, I just reserved the name.

With more names being used, it just forces more creativity, which, in the end, is good for players.

nomed · Feb 24, 2006, 01:26 PM // 13:26

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Originally Posted by Falcon213

I'm sure ANET will eventually start deleting characters on accounts that have been inactive for three months or so, just to cut costs on storing all those dead characters. However I don't see this happening all too soon, at least not until Factions, and then you would still have to wait three months before characters started to get deleted.

I am pretty sure this will never happen. Storage is not a problem, traffic is.
The customer bought the game and it's his decision how long he doesn't play for, be it 1 week or 1 year.

I know if you took a break and came back you wouldn't want to see your characters gone.

It's not even that hard to find names.

Rayea · Feb 24, 2006, 01:36 PM // 13:36

well i reember when you couldnt move on a game for the horde of gandalfs, Neos and legolas clones with numbers at the ends..or with _ or - in them...

i had both a -Kitiara- and -Raistlin- on one account for that game...and almost instantly hooked kit up with her *ahem* half bro -caramon- right from month one ^^ (which was fun, cause the guy was to total dragonlance head like i was back then, so we spent months playing the game with out accounts and chasing about in bros together or bother n sis combinations hehe)

i guess if they aloowed some small amount of symbold..perhaps - and . so that players that *have got* to have a Legolas greenleaf or Neo The One ect chars can have them....simply saying that if your fave characters name is gone, that you cant use the brain you have to make a similar sounding name...i love the anita blake books, but that name was already taken, so...i made anita e blake....

at least were not getting into that crappy, 'my name is better than yours cause i made it with a random rp name generator' or 'if it dosent sound rp, your a crap player' group....

i mean, were humans..admitedly, the necros look undead these days, and theres that elf-alike problem with the rangers, but hey...the chars are HUMAN, so why worry about giving them fancy names...whats wrong with burt cooper or jane smith? proper human names, for human adventurers that have real background....burts dad must have been a barrle maker, and jane came from a line of blacksmiths....
*is so damn sick to death being told har human characters should have fancy sounding names like sparrowfire or bladesinging or frostmourn ect....*

xxSilhouette · Feb 24, 2006, 01:39 PM // 13:39

A lot of people stop playing for a while, even a couple of months and then come back to it, I doubt guild wars would want to make people mad, beacuse i know that if i came back after not playing a few months or weeks or whatever and my name or character was gone i would be ticked.

I doubt this will ever happen - There are plenty of combos you can come up with, and if it ever was a problem I'm sure they'd give us more spaces for a longer name or something of the sort.

Epinephrine · Feb 24, 2006, 03:09 PM // 15:09

I've never had a name bounce. Possibly beacuse I don't name them "Raand Al Thorr" or other dumb-ripoffs. As for hokey RP names, there are SO many options that you've got to be able to make one. Heck, mine are constrained horribly, they are all anagrams of Adrenaline, yet I still managed to easily make 8 of them, and could likely continue for a long time, only using variations on those letters.

RBK · Feb 27, 2006, 09:21 AM // 09:21

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Originally Posted by m0gden

I apologize to anyone who wanted the name of "Octopus Prime" for the three months that I was inactive. Honestly though, I'm quite thankful that my characters were not removed over a long period of time! I saved up a lot of gold during this and the deletion of my characters would have turned me away from returning to GW. Well, that or I'd sign in once a month to keep the name refreshed. I don't think it is all that hard to come up with an original name though sometimes it can be a little annoying to not choose a name you really enjoyed.

If you read my first post I didn’t say anything about deleting characters just the names of inactive characters to make it easier for other people…

But anyway, I was only asking for opinions on the matter, I was kind of asking people what they thought about the idea or weather or not they have a better idea. Simply sparking some thoughts and convocation. Sorry if I offended anyone with the post on confused anyone with the post.

PieXags · Feb 27, 2006, 09:35 AM // 09:35

Just...no, it's silly to suggest a time limit for people's character names. I payed for this game, I thought of the names, I want to keep all of them, with their names, for as long as I want regardless of how often I sign in. If I want to pick up this game two years from now and start playing I should by all means have my same old characters to play with their names intact, I payed for the account, I put my time in for the characters, I thought of the names, and I choose how to manage my time with it all. That will not change because someone wants to pretend to be PieXags in game or something.

D.E.V.i.A.N.C.E · Feb 27, 2006, 09:44 AM // 09:44

Main account; poser japanese
2nd account; poser russian

english names get taken and man "god of" and variations of the elf from the lord of the rings(hundres of rangers have this in thier names its crazy but indeed "common" due to media)

D.E.V.i.A.N.C.E calls first dibs on PieXags