Duplicate Guild Tags

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Posted by: Thrumdi.9216

Thrumdi.9216

We saw another guild on our server today with a different name than us, but the same guild tags.

I though that guild tags were unique (I believe they were in GW1).

Also, if that guild does something dumb, it could come back to make us look bad, even though we are not associated with them.

Is this WAI, or a bug?

Thrumdi, Captain of The Tarnished Coastguard

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Posted by: Shael.4703

Shael.4703

Nope, guild tags are not unique in GW2. It isn’t unique in GW1 either. If they make it unique, there won’t enough guild tags for everyone.

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Posted by: FrozenDream.1590

FrozenDream.1590

yep, true to that.

in gw1 it was the guild name that had to be unique. i mean imagine if a few million players (just a wild guess, dont know numbers here) have to decide on tags with max range of 4 letters… (yeah not everyone will make their own guild, but u get the idea i hope ;P)
especially for the more “famous” tag names like for me: im in a guild with the tag [war] and i already saw like 6 guilds with the same tag.

plz note, that if its a pretty long discussion i may not have read every post,
therefore im sorry if i just posted some outdated stuff
also maybe a similar thread exists already, in that case im sorry for double post.

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Posted by: eisberg.2379

eisberg.2379

27 letters, 4 in game tags, would be 27405 possible combinations. But we are talking something like RWVB would be a combination that nobody may want. So yeah, not having them unique is a good idea.