Guild Wars 2

As it stands each player has their character name show up in the guild chat box, but since guilds are an account-level thing, I think it would make more sense to have the option to display account names rather than character names.

This would mean no longer having to open the guild roster to check who is on what character, and avoid some confusion with people new to the game thinking that guilds are joined on a per-character basis. (It’s happened a few times in our guild, and we’re relatively small.)

Proposed alternatives to normal guild chat:

• Add the account name after the character name in the form of “@username”.
  Example: http://i.imgur.com/rHKiGM3.png

• Display only the account name.
  Example: http://i.imgur.com/huJzsqo.png

If this were to be implemented, it would be nice to see both options, as displaying only account names means that you’d never see people’s character names, and displaying someone’s name followed by “@username” takes up quite a bit of space—which could make it annoying for people playing at low resolutions.

This should be a toggleable option in the form of two checkboxes in the chat settings dialogue:

Example: http://i.imgur.com/dciOB7S.png

The second option (Hide character names) would be disabled unless the “show account names” options was checked.

i’d like this, also the possibility to give nicknames plz just like in friendlist.

I’m not a Windows programmer so I don’t know if the chat window is capable, but I would rather see the account name as tool tip.

Carnius Magius.8091:

I’m not a Windows programmer so I don’t know if the chat window is capable, but I would rather see the account name as tool tip.

The chat window is definitely capable, they have their own implementation of tooltips, such as those used to display item links on hover in chat.

Maybe the tooltip could be the “default”, so when account names are hidden, and you hover over someone’s name, it shows the “player card” tooltip, similar to the one you get when you hover over someone’s portrait in a party—only with more condensed information to make the tooltip less intrusive. Instead of the tooltip appearing immediately, like with item links, there should be a 1-ish second hover delay before it shows up, to prevent it from coming up when clicking on someone’s name in chat to whisper them.

I still think abstracting out the character names should be an option, but this should be how it is handled by default.

Just put your mouse over your guildmate’s name and you see the account name.

Shirk.6421:

Just put your mouse over your guildmate’s name and you see the account name.

I just noticed that. That’s good enough for me.