Guild Wars 2

Hello fellow rangers, and I have been playing this game as a ranger for a long time now, and if there is one thing that makes me angry with this game would be that when a ranger swaps to a new pet (not one of the two a ranger can quick swap to) the name resets. Everytime I need to use a different set of pets the names remove. As a more of a roleplay kind of player I build a relationship with my pets and when I swap back I have to remember the name and rename it everytime. It makes me not want to swap pets. Can we get all the supporters of this together so that Arena Net can fix this. I feel as if it would be an easy fix, just to have the type of pet stay with a certain name. Please lets get everybody together to fix this!!!

Yes I agree with you I am also a player who likes roleplay and build a relationship with my pet.

This problem should be fixed, agreed!

It’s been called for since release… Don’t hold your breath.

Please Arena Net this is the only thing. I do not see it being a hard thing to fix.

I have asked this since beta… still nothing. not a singe comment about it.

I think they said it’d be waste of space to store all those names or something. I’m not sure. Anyway don’t hope for change.

Yep. They said it was a storage issue and won’t be addressing it.

Other than potential inapproapate pet names (that already happen with the current system) I don’t know why they could not find a way to have the names store client side.

Funny thing is for the amount of work to make that QoL improvement would have zero effect on game balance and would have a general positive reaction from the ranger population.

Because you need an insane amount of storage to safe 40 pet names from every ranger ever created

Not really all you need is one or two words per pet. A text document for example is extremely small. Even on a large scale the amount of space it would take is not huge. Anyway keep making this thread huge until we get Arena Net to listen we CAN do it!

Its such a dumb thing to let go this long. Its been like this since launch.

Hepatolith.6389:

Because you need an insane amount of storage to safe 40 pet names from every ranger ever created

In WoW I had a stable with like 25 pets and all had names. Why can’t this happen here?

Yeah come on Arena Net.

Yeah, it’s ridiculous.

Maybe ANet need to hire a few more staff, if they can’t even keep on top of something as (presumably) simple as this?

Hepatolith.6389:

Because you need an insane amount of storage to safe 40 pet names from every ranger ever created

Seriously?!

Have you ever played WoW?

It’s 10 years old, for goodness sake and there has never been an issue with this.

Blude.6812:

Yep. They said it was a storage issue and won’t be addressing it.

Unbelievable.

Literally.

Not a bug but a design limitation, post from a couple of years ago, I can’t find the original dev one however.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Ranger-pet-names-resetting-Merged/first#post1392229

TLDR: Technical limitation caused but not having a dedicated name database for pets.