Guild Wars 2

Dear Anet,

I’m sure its just me, because I didn’t already see this on the forum, but how hard would it be to let my pet names be stored with the pet? I mean, honestly. You have something that remembers every skin I’ve unlocked or dye I’ve opened, isn’t this about the same? They are my pets and every time I switch around, I have to rename. Very frustrating. Doesn’t impact the game in anyway, other than my enjoyment of playing my ranger. So, please, I’ve asked many times in the past 2+ yrs, now I’m begging. Let Frank and Nacho and Ben and the others in my stable have some dignity… and their names.

I once calculated that if every account had a Ranger and had every pet which were all named, it would take up less than 2Tb of data. Plus, you could just store the data in a text file client side.

Also note I am fairly certain the pet name issue would need less work than the engineer kit rework that made the honey-do list.

Kind of sad when they seem to cave in to the other professions where balance is in questioned, but simple quality of experience change that has next to zero balance effect and has been asked for just as long if not longer than the kit art is ignored.

Phoenix.6917:

Dear Anet,

I’m sure its just me, because I didn’t already see this on the forum, but how hard would it be to let my pet names be stored with the pet?

Actually, Rangers have been asking for this since August 2012.

Here is what I do, when I change my pets. I click the option to change pets name before I switch pets. Once that window is open I select my pet than I click OK button in the pets name window and boom quick and easy and you don’t have to retype your pets name.

serow.6524:

Phoenix.6917:

Dear Anet,

I’m sure its just me, because I didn’t already see this on the forum, but how hard would it be to let my pet names be stored with the pet?

Actually, Rangers have been asking for this since August 2012.

It is the 2nd post on this forum and was answered by a Dev back then too! I cannot believe they have not implemented it by now.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/ranger/Saving-pet-names

Last Warrior Lord.7248:

Here is what I do, when I change my pets. I click the option to change pets name before I switch pets. Once that window is open I select my pet than I click OK button in the pets name window and boom quick and easy and you don’t have to retype your pets name.

That is all well and good, but what if you do not want the same name for all pets? Many people would like specific names for each.

Heimskarl Ashfiend.9582:

serow.6524:

Phoenix.6917:

Dear Anet,

I’m sure its just me, because I didn’t already see this on the forum, but how hard would it be to let my pet names be stored with the pet?

Actually, Rangers have been asking for this since August 2012.

It is the 2nd post on this forum and was answered by a Dev back then too! I cannot believe they have not implemented it by now.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/ranger/Saving-pet-names

Last Warrior Lord.7248:

Here is what I do, when I change my pets. I click the option to change pets name before I switch pets. Once that window is open I select my pet than I click OK button in the pets name window and boom quick and easy and you don’t have to retype your pets name.

That is all well and good, but what if you do not want the same name for all pets? Many people would like specific names for each.

I don’t understand. The name well be the same that your want to keep. If you want a totally different name than the comment don’t apply to you.

[Edit] Think I understand that you’re asking for a list of saved names for each pet but that would be a lot of work and data room for Arena Net to do that is irrelevant to be honest. My way of doing is perfectly fine and I don’t hate Arena net for not doing so cause that would go out their way for just pets which is a very small issue to even worried about.

I’ve said for a while every time one of these pops up …

ArenaNet could have the pet names stored client-side.

• When you bring out a new pet, your client would automatically use the name stored for it.
• ArenaNet would simply have to verify the name set by the client … what they already do when we are manually setting it.

Basically, instead of having us constantly remember our pet names and set them manually … have the game client do that for us. Very simple and it doesn’t require any additional storage for ArenaNet.