Guild Wars 2

I’m kinda being anxious in my account name since it’s just a random name i picked up not knowing this name will be shown in my friends’ list & guild roster, etc.

Are there any chances support will allow me to change my account name at least to my desired nicknames or my personal name?

Why don’t you ask that… idk… the Support?

Unfortunately, the answer is no

They’ll only change it if it’s showing your real name, email address or other personal information.

If you simply want people to call you by another name the best thing to do is use that as the name for your main character (or at least one you use frequently). In-game your character name is generally seen more often than your account name.

Also just tell people what you’d like to be called.

Welcome to the club of poorly chosen account display names.

Help yourself to the punch and pie.

~EW

Display name. The email address you log in with is your account name.

Now if you want to change your login email, support can help you.

EphemeralWallaby.7643:

Welcome to the club of poorly chosen account display names.

Help yourself to the punch and pie.

~EW

Turns out, my choice of display names was ill-conceived in more ways than I imagined. (Back when we first had the opportunity to decide, many of use were under the impression that no one would see the name, because we thought we were choosing an account name — that was hidden in GW1 and we were led to believe it would be hidden in GW2, too.)

Regardless, anyone can request that ANet change the display name and, if you can make a good case for it, they will change it. As someone else said (and the link is available above), they will do so only in a narrow range of circumstances.

When I played GW2 durring beta, I didn’t like my Display name and request to change it to DreamyAbaddon. ArenaNet has changed it for me on launch day so the answer is yes for me but that was long time ago.

Here is a collection of posts from Anet about display names and why it is not likely to be changed unless it meets strict criteria.

Anet usually only offers display name changes in the event the display name compromises your privacy, (example using real name or email address), or if the name violates the GW2 naming policy. The links below go to posts from Anet staff regarding this issue.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/support/Name-Questions-Please-read-merged/first#post2087181
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/support/Name-Questions-Please-read-merged/page/4#post4336410
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/support/Name-Questions-Please-read-merged/page/4#post5498462

From the last link above that explains that display name changes can cause problems.

Long story short is that display names weren’t designed in a way that allows them to be changed without causing a potential (and significant) batch of problems on the account so we (support) only do them when we reeeeally need to.

JustTrogdor.7892:

Here is a collection of posts from Anet about display names and why it is not likely to be changed unless it meets strict criteria.

Anet usually only offers display name changes in the event the display name compromises your privacy, (example using real name or email address), or if the name violates the GW2 naming policy. The links below go to posts from Anet staff regarding this issue.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/support/Name-Questions-Please-read-merged/first#post2087181
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/support/Name-Questions-Please-read-merged/page/4#post4336410
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/support/Name-Questions-Please-read-merged/page/4#post5498462

From the last link above that explains that display name changes can cause problems.

Long story short is that display names weren’t designed in a way that allows them to be changed without causing a potential (and significant) batch of problems on the account so we (support) only do them when we reeeeally need to.

Lucky me that I got my display name changed before all this. lol

As others wrote above, the accountname is rarely seen. In guildboards and friendlists only when you are offline, which is mostly no reason to talk to you anyway – except you belong to the cool kids who play on stealth for w/e reason.

The names people mostly recognize are the character names. If you want to wear a certain nickname permanently, the best solution is to name all your characters mostly equal. Sounds very stupid, but works quite well. Example:
desired nickname: Hector
Warrior – Mighty Hector
Guardian – Hector The Brave
Mesmer – Mesmerizing Hector
… etc.

I know many people who use that system and it works great. Another option, for guild/friends is you can tell them your desired nickname. Then they add you as friends and give you a nickname on the friendlist. This changes the display name in the friendlist and guildboard for them. Plus when you log in, they receive a system message that you loged in (with your nickname, not the account name).

At last, you can just name your main-character with your desired nick only, but that requires you to play it as main. I did that and it works quite well. But especially for people who love to play several classes, the first discribed option might be better.

And, talking about bad account-name choices … >_>, I’m cursed with this abomination for nearly four years now. After several misconceptions for a bot, goldseller, hacker … I somehow got used to it. I’m still waiting for the day a dev bans me on sight, luckyly it did not happen yet.