Guild Wars 2

I’m not expecting this to be implemented, but would like to see what people think about it.

I would like to see all enemy player names removed (the one that floats above their head). I don’t mean an option to remove them, I mean for them to be forcefully removed for everyone. The reasons for this are as follows:

If you cannot see my name, I can hide behind objects such as trees, without fear that my name is giving my position away. And I would have no objection to enemy players using terrain to hide from me either. It would allow players to utilize terrain to their advantage and set up ambushes, etc.

I also find it very immersion breaking. Unless of course the world of Tyria has a form of identification magic that makes someone’s name float about their head. In which case fair enough.

And in WvW, it can be a little (and I’d like to stress ‘little’) bit annoying that due to culling you can often blow cooldowns trying to kill a dead player. I know this is mainly down to the culling problem, but still feel removing names from enemies would remove this slight annoyance while culling remains a problem.

I have no objection with displaying the names of allies (providing you can toggle it on or off), it is just enemy names I’d like removed. You do not have floating name tags in FPS Shooters and I do not like seeing it in other MMO’s either (I have never understood why MMO’s have this). The only genre of game I don’t mind this kind of thing in is in RTS games.

Anyway, what do you think? Do you prefer name tags or no name tags on enemies? If you prefer them, what are your reasons?

I Agree ! Can be quite annoying indeed.

Would be neat, but with the culling problem this will never happen.

yeah get rid of all the associated text on enemy players except for class health and effects. I dont presume to know anything about programming at all(unless you count making music on a spectrum and changing the code to rogue to make yourself invincible, also on the spectrum) but wouldent this make the file packets smaller due to less iunformation having to be passed from server to client? Which is inherantly the issue of the culling problem?

I think its a good idea, they dont want to give us enemy players names so why not get rid of it altogether?