Guild Wars 2

Is the 24 hour name reservation still valid? Today I created a new character, then I deleted it because I wasn’t satisfied with the appearance and when I recreated it and got to the character name it said that the name was invalid. Sure enough, I log in with another character, try to add to party the name I had been using less than a hour ago and the name is now being used by another account.

Is this a bug or is this is how names are working now, so that anyone might steal your name as soon as you delete your character?

The 24 hour name reservation is when you pay for a name change, not when you delete the character.

Ummm pretty sure the 24 hour reservation is true if you delete a character. Or should be. It was like that in Guild Wars 1.

Or you positive you didn’t misspell it? Maybe try again to be sure. If it is truly taken I would put in a bug report. Not that that will get your name back but they should know.

’Names are reserved for your account for 24 hours after deleting the character. ’

Per the wiki: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Character

Gaile Gray.6029:

The name should have been accessible to you for 24 hours. If you are certain you are not misspelling the name, and that you made the new character in under 24 hours, you’re welcome to contact Support to ask about this.

Hi Gaile. Any way to lift the 24 hour reservation? I used my brother’s account to test out the availability of few IGNs since he has an opened character slot. Now I am trying to apply it to my account under the 24 hr period. I can wait, just wondering if you guys have the resources to make this possible.