Guild Wars 2

Dear Developers,

Firstly, thank you for your continued hard work and consideration of this and all other suggestions. The community at large is made up of unique personalities, opinions, and desires and I understand this fact alone means not all ideas will be utilized. That being said, I apologize if I am repeating a suggestion that has already been made, addressed, denied or is in the process of being completed. My searching “Guilds” and “Rename” ended with no results. Moving on…

The purpose of this post is to request and discuss adding in the ability to rename a guild. This ability is available among competitors for a real world monetary value and could function similar to the Name Change Contract in theory.

Now that I’ve made this seem overly simplistic, allow me to touch on potential problems. Being unfamiliar with your current coding, I am only able to theorize and assume so please forgive me if there are errors in my thinking. I welcome those with more knowledge to reply and add to the potential problems while posting solutions as well.

1. Renaming the guild and changing the associated guild tag may not show universally across all guild members at the time of the change.
Possible resolution: The completion of the renaming function would force the guild to be unrepresented by all guild members while the change was made.
2. How would the guild members be notified of the change and the need to re-represent their guild accordingly?
Possible resolution: Similar to the pop up window that occurs when you are invited to a guild, a message would show up stating something along the lines of, “Guild X has changed their name to Guild XYZ. Please renew your representation in the guild panel.”
3. What if the guild wished to reverse the name change?
Possible resolution: It should be noted that in line with the Name Change Contract that Guild Name Change Contracts would be a one-time use and irreversible. To change the name they would need to purchase another contract.
4. What would happen to the old name?
Possible resolution: Similar to character names, the old guild name would be available for anyone to use in the formation of a new guild.
5. Shouldn’t the renaming function be available among upgrades?
Possible resolution: This could be a top tier upgrade listed under the Politics tab, but would cost an extensive amount of influence. The reason for the extensive amount is that influence is purchasable through gold, which is purchasable through gems, which is purchasable through real world currency. While adding it as an upgrade feature would offer the chance of grinding out gold for influence purchase or completing other activities to earn influence, it would also offer another source of income for Arena.net who does not currently require monthly subscription fees to play. The extensive amount of influence would also discourage the abuse of this system.

Thank you once more for your consideration of this suggestion.

Sincerely,
Rachel (Xehara.8537)