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Originally Posted by karen the healer
I refuse to spend $14.99 to change my name back. My luck, it would not work anyway. This is so making me sick.
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I did a Name Change and it totally screwed me up
Fitz Rinley
FengShuiDove
Sorry to hear about the unfortunate inconvenience. I have a question though:
When you did the makeover, did you change the character model itself or just face/hair? I ask because perhaps ANet tested name swap on existing character models but neglected for people who are changing to new models.
When you did the makeover, did you change the character model itself or just face/hair? I ask because perhaps ANet tested name swap on existing character models but neglected for people who are changing to new models.
JR
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Originally Posted by karen the healer
Omg I think I know what happened . I had a pvp character by the name Faith Highborne that I never played. I deleeted her prior to changing my name from Karen the Healer to Faith Highborne. Because I had once held that name on a pvp character I bet that cause a mess up. Think thats it?
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I'm fairly at one point a long time they introduced measures to stop people creating PvP characters, putting the equipment in storage, deleting them and creating a PvE character of the same name to use the equipment.
Now equipment is tied by character ID and not name, but that may have not always been the case, and there could be some legacy code that caused your problem.
(Ok apparently that's not actually the case)
dr love
HAHAHAHA man that's a kick in the nuts, but a great laugh
xDusT II
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karen the healer
Everything in my HoM is tied to the old character name. Will I have use of it in guild wars2. To be honest I am pretty much done all I want to do in guild wars. My MAIN concern is that I do loose the 32 titles I had on that character. I went to the HOM and I can still see all the stuff I put in there. So I am safe with that at least, right? Please tell me that I am.
Jumping Is Uselss
GG. Anet. Name Change editing is broken on birthday.
xDusT II
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Originally Posted by Jumping Is Uselss
GG. Anet. Name Change editing is broken on birthday.
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Miss Puddles
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Originally Posted by JR
Nice find, but you are misunderstanding it. You should still be able to use anything you previously had.
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JR
I finally found someone at ArenaNet who wasn't asleep and pinged them about the issue. Hopefully we should hear something soon.
Puddin Cheeks
I know, it is a different circumstance, but doesnt your armor and weapons still work on your character after a name ban. That is essentially a name change right?. My weapons on my banned characters' names still have the old name but work as expected.
Spinny
I just done a make over and name change from D Shot On Recharge to Dshot Shootz Ya.
Took armor piece off - went back on fine, took cust wep off - went back on fine, changed armor to cust norn - went on just fine.
No problems here.
Took armor piece off - went back on fine, took cust wep off - went back on fine, changed armor to cust norn - went on just fine.
No problems here.
cthulhu reborn
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Originally Posted by karen the healer
Everything in my HoM is tied to the old character name. Will I have use of it in guild wars2. To be honest I am pretty much done all I want to do in guild wars. My MAIN concern is that I do loose the 32 titles I had on that character. I went to the HOM and I can still see all the stuff I put in there. So I am safe with that at least, right? Please tell me that I am.
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I also have all my titles and stuff still.
I would think the bug is that you had your armours in the xunlai when you changed over. I had all of them in my inventory when I changed names and perhaps that's something they hadn't thought of yet.
Neez
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Originally Posted by Miss Puddles
Though the answer given on the site isn't totally clear either.
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JR
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Originally Posted by Puddin Cheeks
I know, it is a different circumstance, but doesnt your armor and weapons still work on your character after a name ban. That is essentially a name change right?. My weapons on my banned characters' names still have the old name but work as expected.
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I can't think of a reason why the character ID would change. Perhaps when some people change their name it creates a new character ID instead of using the original one?
The whole PvP character thing sounded plausible but apparently is not the case. Perhaps changing the characters appearance to a different campaign might be worth looking at as a possible cause... There's really no obvious ones to start with though.
The Arching Healer
A guildie changed his name + looks like 3 hours ago and he doesn't have any problems.
MrTickle
Well i'm not buying anything from the store until the pages actually load. I remember buying 2 x NF because the store was bugged/pages not loading.
I'm sure they'll fix your prob soon enough Karen
I'm sure they'll fix your prob soon enough Karen
snaek
im soooo glad that anet decided to skip this month's skill balance update for bug testing. it was soo worth it!
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Originally Posted by regina buenaobra
As you are aware, we are currently working very hard on our big April update. And of course, big updates need a lot of testing and resources. We want the update to be a high quality experience you can fully enjoy, so we are dedicating a lot of time to testing it. With a game as complex as Guild Wars and an update as significant as this one, very thorough testing is required. Every addition or change has the potential to affect other areas of the game, sometimes in unexpected ways. Skill changes also need to be fully tested, so we were running into a situation where we risked releasing either the skill balance or the April update itself without the level of polish, consideration, and testing that it should have.
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JR
These things slip through. Anet has a pretty good track record for testing, in general.
The difficulty is with the differences between the test server and the live server. Something that works on the test server just fine may somehow break when it's put up on the live server due to the different databases.
I'm not making excuses for them, this is a pretty epic bug, just saying it's not as simple as it might seem.
The difficulty is with the differences between the test server and the live server. Something that works on the test server just fine may somehow break when it's put up on the live server due to the different databases.
I'm not making excuses for them, this is a pretty epic bug, just saying it's not as simple as it might seem.
Regina Buenaobra
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Originally Posted by karen the healer
I decided to do a name change on my primary character and a new appearance. Little did I know, it was a fatal mistake. Since all the elite sets of armour and weapons are customized to my old name. I can no longer use any of the armour or weapons I have gathered over 4 years. They still show in my HOM thank God. But I can no longer use them. I am totally naked now with no armour or weapons. This after spending $14.99 and then $9.99. I am so mad. I quit. I can so slap myself right now for being a fool.
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tazer
not true, everything's fine. I can use my old armors and customized weapons without any problem.
that's right.
even players that got their nickname changed due to violation of naming policy had previously their armors still linked to old names, but they could use them.
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even players that got their nickname changed due to violation of naming policy had previously their armors still linked to old names, but they could use them.
Regina Buenaobra
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Originally Posted by karen the healer
I decided to do a name change on my primary character and a new appearance. Little did I know, it was a fatal mistake. Since all the elite sets of armour and weapons are customized to my old name. I can no longer use any of the armour or weapons I have gathered over 4 years. They still show in my HOM thank God. But I can no longer use them. I am totally naked now with no armour or weapons. This after spending $14.99 and then $9.99. I am so mad. I quit. I can so slap myself right now for being a fool.
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To clarify for everyone: If you complete a name change on a character, your old armor and customised equipment will have the old name on it, but your newly-named character will be able to use the old armor and equipment. If you have any further questions or concerns about your account, please contact our customer support team. Thanks.
Wish Swiftdeath
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Originally Posted by Regina Buenaobra
Hey. We checked your character. Your character is actually wearing the armor that you complained about it not being able to wear.
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So who's lying?
Regina Buenaobra
If anyone has a problem of this type, please do report it. It will help the team a lot so the bugs can be squashed. ^^
Tarun
15 bucks for a name change too? Eesh... and 10 bucks for storage... GW is turning into every other free RPG out there, making people pay an outrageous amount for something that's simple...
What else is a crock? All the equipment bags except one have to use "Zaishen coins" instead of just gold. Fail.
What else is a crock? All the equipment bags except one have to use "Zaishen coins" instead of just gold. Fail.
Kattar
Wrong thread Tarun.
Tarun
Meh, still. Fifteen bucks for a name change is waaaay too high. Five bucks max is more like it.
MMSDome
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Originally Posted by Regina Buenaobra
Hey. We checked your character. Your character is actually wearing the armor that you complained about it not being able to wear.
To clarify for everyone: If you complete a name change on a character, your old armor and customised equipment will have the old name on it, but your newly-named character will be able to use the old armor and equipment. If you have any further questions or concerns about your account, please contact our customer support team. Thanks. |
Was just wondering. If you do change your name and as you said the old name is on it and then I were to use the name on the armor could I wear it?
JASON626
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Originally Posted by Tarun
15 bucks for a name change too? Eesh... and 10 bucks for storage... GW is turning into every other free RPG out there, making people pay an outrageous amount for something that's simple...
What else is a crock? All the equipment bags except one have to use "Zaishen coins" instead of just gold. Fail. |
agreed.. where the new ideas to make a buck stop no one knows.
Winterclaw
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Originally Posted by cthulu reborn
I would think the bug is that you had your armours in the xunlai when you changed over. I had all of them in my inventory when I changed names and perhaps that's something they hadn't thought of yet.
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LeoX
After spending a long time fighting the saturation of the site, I miraculously managed to purchase a name change.
I just did it, and after reading this thread I was kind of scared, but I said ah well, and went for it.
Needless to say... Everything's fine! I can successfully equip my armour, weapons, etc.
PS: I didn't do a make over (yet!)
I just did it, and after reading this thread I was kind of scared, but I said ah well, and went for it.
Needless to say... Everything's fine! I can successfully equip my armour, weapons, etc.
PS: I didn't do a make over (yet!)
DarkNecrid
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Originally Posted by MMSDome
Yo Reggie,
Was just wondering. If you do change your name and as you said the old name is on it and then I were to use the name on the armor could I wear it? |
Inde
I'm going to close this since the matter was resolved/never there in the first place and I don't want others to get confused thinking this is indeed a bug.