Lot’s of people have been talking about how pets shouldn’t have name tags or how you should be able to turn off other players titles / guild tags. I think this should be in the game also, but it’s not even going to make a dent in the level of clutter and it’s real cause.
How other MMOs deal with this is pretty simple. You scale the size of the text based upon the distance. Right now it doesn’t matter if a player is 10m or 100m away from you, the name tag above their heads is the same size.
By simply having the name tags get smaller and smaller the further away people are to the point when you see that enemy blob running by the distance you can just about make out little red pixels above their heads, then straight away a gigantic amount of that clutter has been dealt with.
Make it so!