Guild Wars 2

It sounds weird, but it would be nice if our pet’s names stuck and didn’t disappear once we had to exchange them for another we had (one that isn’t equipped). I don’t always use two pets all the time, and often times I need to switch them (dungeon or PvE) and their names disappear.

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I second this!

It costs them too much money. Apparently they have to store the pets names on their servers. Taking up space that they don’t want to give.

I would love to have this as well.

Fomby.4295:

It costs them too much money. Apparently they have to store the pets names on their servers. Taking up space that they don’t want to give.

Now you’re cynical – I think it’s just a bug

Every time I make an excessively wordy post on these forums, they have to store that on their servers, too

Dondarrion.2748:

Fomby.4295:

It costs them too much money. Apparently they have to store the pets names on their servers. Taking up space that they don’t want to give.

Now you’re cynical – I think it’s just a bug

I think Fomby is right, though there is nothing to stop them having the names stored locally on our machines as far as I know.

Dondarrion.2748:

Fomby.4295:

It costs them too much money. Apparently they have to store the pets names on their servers. Taking up space that they don’t want to give.

Now you’re cynical – I think it’s just a bug

Nope, that’s pretty much what they said.

Jason King
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(MokahTGS.7850:
This is actually not a bug, it is working as intended. It is not optimal, but to save the names of all of your pets (read: all of everyone’s pets) would require another large name database that ANet did not create. Currently the pet name feature saves the name in the slot, not the pet, so changing out the pet type resets the slot name.
Perhaps someday they will change this, but it is not a bug).

This is pretty much exactly what’s going on.
Tl;dr: we may change this some day, but it’s not going to happen in the near future, and it’s not a bug.
ArenaNet Community Team
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