Unhappy with your character name, but don't want to lose your time and energy?

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Sounds pointless to me. If you don't like your name why did you pick it in the first place? Makes it too easy to scam people and be generally irritating.

I'm genuinely curious - How did you get two characters to level 20 without noticing the names you'd given them..? What changed your mind about the names - I'd assume you liked them when you started?

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hmm i dont see why people are so trippy about scammer. ive never been scammed before.

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I think this will increase scamming if they can simply rename themselves at will, instead of having to restart a character for a new name.

a name change feature would be great, my gf used to have a character on my account but due to a nasty piece of work who joined our guild she has decided not to play gw anymore. the problem i have is i want to use the character but everyone thinks im my gf when i do and i dont want to delete and start again due to the 15k armour and superior absorb and vigor runes (not to mention the unlocked elites) so a name (and possible appearance) change would be spot on in my opinion

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you can sign with anything you want but this is one item (along with UAS) that is a no go.

good things can come in consequences.. the only sure way your name CAN be changed.. if its deemed OFFENSIVE.. you get suspended for a limited time of hours.. and you are able to change your charcters name after the suspension.

Id agree to one name change allowed per character one and only one. After you have changed it the one time either live with it or start over. Its not something Id like to see the devs dedicate effort towards tho, many more important things to tend too.

Yeah, great. Make people able to change their names. I'd get whispers from names I remember, but how on earth should I know if it isn't someone else trying to scam me? And how am I supposed to know what my fellow guildies are doing with their names, it'll all be a mess. More fun for the scammers, more confusion for the players.

Renaming, although you can do it in real life. Shouldn't be done in GuildWars, unless its for a very high price and verification for the new name takes 3-7 days. This is how I feel about changing faces or height too, plastic surgeons (Bad idea). Now hair dye or hair cuts, thats a good idea.

A one time only name change is a good idea. That way people who regret the name they picked can do so and at the same time it will prevent scammers from changing their names just to scam. If they have the same name then changes in appearance won't matter since you can't copy another persons name.

One name change would be alright. Any more than that is simply ANet's way of putting a big *STAMP* of Approval on scammers.

/unsigned You know what this is going to lead to? We won't be able to keep track of bad players (I have a list) or people who talk dirty or mouth off, etc. etc. If you let these people change their names on a whim like this it's just going to cause more chaos. Blacklisting a player is a very strong punishment for things they do wrong or bad in a game, giving the the opportunity to hide behind another name is a bad idea and just gives these griefers more open doors to continue to do so.

Easy, just assign each account some form of unique ID which you can see when you add them to friends list. Eg if I add Deathqueen to my friends, and you subsequently changed your nick, it will just display your present nick with a "(was Deathqueen)" designation to indicate that your nick was changed.

If you get scammed its your own fault. I was scammed before, but it was because of my own stupidity. I learned a lesson and have never been scammed again. There is no need for keeping names of players. Most of the people I meet in game I never or rarely see again anyway, except for my guildies.

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Many times I've wished for this feature.

Ummm I don't want bad players and such in my friends list. And my ignore list is already full. If anything instead of giving people free will to change their names they should add 1000 more slots to the /ignore list.

Perhaps on friends list their name should remain as the name that u added them as. Same for ignore.

There should be a limit on how many times you could change the name for one character but otherwise...
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