Guild Wars 2

is there any way to change your characters name???

character name

Schadenfraude — wrong spelling but i dont know if they found it offending… lvl 80
Schadenfreude;-— lvl 36

So many people ask about this feature. I see it here almost everyday. Maybe we can put a sticky above so people know it’s coming?

I must admit that the “in the future” reference is quite disappointing. The last reference was “quite soon” which I was taking as, well, quite soon. It sounds like the feature is back on the back burner. It would seem that this feature should have competed successfully for just about anything out of the 2/26 patch. Oh well.

oh well ill just wait and ___

im going to remove overwolf xD

But Gaile, for something that has been worked on for 4-5 months, and hardly being the size/complexity of an expansion pack, why is it so difficult for the dev team to make a proper statement about when this will come?

The don’t say when exactly it will come because like any game that is around even if the feature is in testing there could be last minute show stopping bugs that prevent it being pushed out. If they say it will be out next month then something happens and it gets pushed back that irritates people even more. Case in point when there were supposed to be WvW updates in february and they got pushed back a month.

I quote from another thread "Colin Johanson: “In February, we’re going to do a whole bunch of expansions on top of that world vs world area, to make that experience even more uniquely Guild Wars. But that’s something where we took a lot of inspiration from a previous game, and take that and then build on it and make it something even more.”

and yet there were unforseen bugs so it got pushed to march.

I realize a name change is not the same as a WvW update but the same rule applies really.

Dondarrion.2748:

But Gaile, for something that has been worked on for 4-5 months, and hardly being the size/complexity of an expansion pack, why is it so difficult for the dev team to make a proper statement about when this will come?

Many reasons.
A: It can be more complex then an actual expansion.
B: The dev team decides on priority’s and not us as players. Personally I make sure I pick a name I like and never have wished for a name change ever. I don’t mind having this feature in the game for those who want to use it, but I hope the dev’s are not wasting too much time on it but are also making improvements to the game I’m going to use and like.
C: It will be ready when it’s ready.