Guild Wars 2

Topic. GW1 names are still unusable/reserved to the players of their account.

I was curious about this also as there’s a name I’d like that’s been reserved since beta.
I assumed, however, that it’s a permanent reservation, if not at least a year.

If I’m not mistaken, I believe they were dumping the old database after 5 days from headstart (so 2nd live day). Been a while since that announcement though

You still cannot take reserved name yet despite the promise that they will release the names by the time they resovled all tickets filed on release day.

Let me quote: “After launch day (and after we work through support tickets filed on launch day), we’ll free up the millions of unclaimed names for new Guild Wars 2 players to use.” directly from http://www.arena.net/blog/reserving-your-character-name-for-guild-wars-2

However apparently the word “after” could mean a year, or two after release date.

GaileGray also said that they don’t have a timeframe for release of these names, which implies that currently those names will be reserved indefinitely, i.e., permanently, which is a good thing because I have names that I reserved but haven’t used yet and maybe will use those by the next expansion.