Guild Wars 2

For a few days before the latest hotfix (the one ’’fixing’’ health bars in WvW and PvP) somehow a dream came true: squad and party members’ names were actually hidden by the option that supposedly toggles all players’ names on and off, which is pretty much what one would expect it to do.

And it was beautiful.

But it was only a dream: the patch is released, and half of the screen is covered in blue nonsense again.
I’m thinking i messed something up, that i changed some settings, but i didn’t; i’m thinking that it makes no sense to fix something and purposedly break it again, even if the fix was unintentional.

Now, with all due respect to the fellow players who i’m sure put a great deal of effort in coming up with creative names… I’m sorry, i don’t want to see them, i don’t need to see them, they’re annoying and i can’t even read them anyway. All i can see is a big mush of characters, and sometimes a commander tag hidden somewhere in that mess.

So, please, can we make this little dream come really true? For good?

• Baby seal’s approval of this message:

Shameless little bump…

Just this once, i promise.
Since the topic has been brought up several times, and not only recently, i find it weird that nobody has anything to say…
Or i guess people just don’t like seals.

This… the game was so beautiful without all the names on my screen.

I could actually pay attention to the fight mechanics, and what was going on around me.

I hate to insist on a topic that barely got any attention, but somebody please tell me if this makes any sense:
http://i.imgur.com/FZxkdLi.jpg

Now, I honestly couldn’t care any less about the health bars, just… the names.
Why does this happen? Why and how is it not possible to have the same basic UI funcionality in both game modes?

This thing is not only visually unappealing, but also affects gameplay.
Find the commander in the first screenshot.