Guild Wars 2

There are two or three character names that I like to use that are reserved. I’ve asked a few times, but didn’t get an answer, and can’t find one on the forums. Has there been any word about this?

I thought they said previously they were reserving them for a month and then releasing them.

I would really like to know as well, I have a very unique name and I am incredibly surprised that it is reserved, but the thing is it may be reserved but nobody is using it and I doubt nobody is going too. It just sucks I bought Guild Wars 2 and I really want my name and I can’t play because I try every day to get the name but it’s reserved, so I just wait till the next day. I just want to play already, I thought reserved names that never got used were going to be released for use already?

okay, I decided I would just play a human instead of charr and use a different name until I can use the one I want on charr, I try to put in a new different name for my human and it is also reserved. I just want to play already, this is ridiculous!

Stillhart.2731:

I thought they said previously they were reserving them for a month and then releasing them.

http://www.arena.net/blog/reserving-your-character-name-for-guild-wars-2

“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.”

So, they are to be freed up no sooner than 24 hours after launch (that has passed), and no sooner than completion of tickets filed during the launch period (still on-going). Based on the wording from the post, as soon as the support tickets are worked through, the names will be freed up.

Lucky.6309:

I would really like to know as well, I have a very unique name and I am incredibly surprised that it is reserved, but the thing is it may be reserved but nobody is using it and I doubt nobody is going too. It just sucks I bought Guild Wars 2 and I really want my name and I can’t play because I try every day to get the name but it’s reserved, so I just wait till the next day. I just want to play already, I thought reserved names that never got used were going to be released for use already?

Well, if someone already have the name in Guild Wars ¹, then it isn’t “very” “unique”, right?

Personally, don’t count on it. I haven’t tried using someone else’s name in GW1 but it is possible that the GW1 player who used your “very” “unique” name before you is actually using it in GW2 (as a main, an alt, or a mule). The system is just returning “reserved name” because well, it’s a reserved name.

Unless someone tested it already and can say that a used reserved name will return “already used” instead of “reserved name”, then you have to assume it is a used name indeed. Otherwise, you might only get disappointed down the road.

Btw, I’m not being sarcastic. GW1 doesn’t allow a one-word name, so if the name you thought of is a reserved name then it isn’t very unique at all, not even just “unique” (without the ‘very’). The odds of someone coming up with the same two-word or three-word or four-word name like you is not as a big as a single-word name, and yet it still ended up being a name that already exists in GW1.

Think of a new name. Play the game. Enjoy it. The last thing you want is to get disappointed later on.

Tip: Open your friends window (‘Y’) and search for that name. If it gets added, you’ll see the ANet Display Name of the person. It also meant that s/he actually used the name in GW2 too. If no user was added, then there really is no character using that name – you still have a chance to take it.