Guild Wars 2

Not all of us get our panties in a bunch when some guy keeps killing us. It will also allow us to report exploiters/hackers on the enemy team. Why not keep everyone happy by simply giving us the option to see enemy player names. It would be cool if you build a reputation for yourself in WvW for being extremely powerful or brave or cowardly or weak etc etc. People will be like “oh kitten its that guy and his crew RUN!”

You can still report hackers/exploiters without knowing their name by using the report method.

People will call other people out for crap on the forum using their name. So instead of an entire thread just dedicated to a server matchup, you’ll have a million threads about Johnny215555.1343.

People will spam other people in WvW during fights or simply would spam /whispers to commanders 24/7.

You can build a reputation, with your server. Other servers aren’t as important because the matchups change every week.

I’d rather them take off name tags entirely to allow more use of terrain, hiding, etc tactics.

I think this will only give birth to more negative comments and topics on forums. For example, something like topics with the following titles: “Oh, ‘guy X’ I have killed you, piece of s**t, I’m better than you”, or “Oh, ‘guy Y’ you are a cheap-a*s cheter, please ban this noob” (‘guy X’ and ‘guy Y’ are being player names).

Which would be awesome Macovan. Hate tells can make or break a pvp session

you could have 2 options. 1 which allows the enemy to see your name and 1 which allows you to see the enemies name?

How about this option. “See enemy’s name”.
Only people who decide to enable that option can see each others name.

I like the idea of having names hidden. It prevents stupid things like revenge kills.

I’ve seen too many idiots in other games barge through a group of enemy players to get to someone that’s been ganking him one on one. Usually it ends up in the rager dying, the fight growing unbalanced, and several facesittings.

Thank you, ANet, for not giving us this info.

This is Anet’s way of making WvW more ‘accessible’ to those who would otherwise avoid it for fear of having their name associated with pixel death. It’s one of those ‘casualization ’efforts, so I don’t see it changing.

That’s the whole Idea behind the “See enemy’s name” option. If you decide to enable it, its YOUR decision if you want your name to be seen as well as it gives you the right to see your enemy’s (aslong as the enemy enables "See enemy’s name too).

I like that they kept everyone anonymous, personally… because like others have said it would lead to calling out people in the forums or possibly harassments in whispers to that player. I’ve seen it too much in a game I played previous to this, and it can get childish.

I also think taking off the names entirely would be nice, I could better hide if I wanted to. I feel especially bad for the guys with long server names above their heads, they must have a hell of a time sneaking lol.

I understand why you’d like the option to see names of other players, but I think it’d just be a bad idea, personally. Too many negatives outweigh the positives. I do understand your idea behind allowing others to see your name and vice versa, that is a better idea. But I still feel there’d be childish people abusing it, who will eventually make spammy threads on the forums or elsewhere.