Guild Wars 2

i noticed that the two pets i’ve had & used forever – A Lashtail & a Carrion devourer, Clicky & Chatters respectively – have their names saved even when i’ve swapped to another pet and back. However, if i try to name another pet, its name is not saved after i’ve switched it out and back.

Does anyone know why?

If you use a pet for underwater combat, it will use the same name if you swap it in for land combat

ANet just doesn’t want to code the database for it, for whatever reason. In the past they claimed it was because storing the data would be an issue. But here’s some nice math that you may want to take a look at. Granted with all the existing accounts and pets almost 4 years after launch it would probably be more complicated to do so now, but honestly I see no valid reason why it was not implemented at launch.

I think this is just about the only game I’ve ever played that doesn’t allow saving of pet names. Simplest fix for it would to just have them be stored client-side.