Guild Wars 2

After the new update I decided to make a new character. Once I logged on I went to represent my guild again and noticed that my username was displaying my email instead! I tried reloging from character select and that didnt work. Eventually after a full client restart it started displaying my username again. Note that before I logged on as my new character I went on as one I already had and my username was displaying correctly.

Is this happening for anyone else?

This is happening for me as well, in both the guild and the friends list. I’m not sure if other people can see my e-mail or not, though. This definitely started happening today. Also, this wasn’t with a new character – I logged in using one of my existing characters.

Same, when I asked my guild they stated that they could only see my username and not my email. Now its happening each time I log in. Good to know there are other encountering this issue.

Noticed this a few times today. Email address is displayed in guild chat and also contacts. (You can log out and it reverts back to displaying account name.)

Yeah I asked a few friends and they said to them it displays my username or if they have me nicknamed my nickname. After it reverted back to my user name, about 3 hours it went back to the email then it fixed itself again, it’s rather erratic.

After playing a tournament match, my display name (Loon.1695) was changed to the email I use to sign into Guild Wars 2. The roster setup allowed other players to see my e-mail address which could potentially compromise my account! The error also showed in my contacts list, where my name was displayed back to me as my e-mail. I fixed it by restarting my game but felt this was something that had to be reported.

Yesterday when I was going through Cursed Shore another player said this happened to them when they were exploring.

Greetings.

Now, i totally do not know if this was intended, but when i logged in earlier today, it was showing my email address instead of my username (in contacts, guild roster, etc), when usually it only shows the display name.

Has anybody else had similar stuff happen to them?

Just thought i’d better post here about it, in case this was unintended.

~Celex

Wanted to bump this and say I was experiencing the same thing. Apparently others can’t see it but it is surprising and makes me a little worried about my account’s security.

Edit to say that it also appears as my email in the startup screen and that some of the previously mentioned fixes don’t seem to work for me.

If this hasn’t been resolved or proven wrong yet, there’s a chance other people could see it too:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/account/Email-address-displayed-in-guild-roster/first#post1333269

I saw this on my character select screen yesterday. Based on what was happening with my connection yesterday(bad weather + WiMax connection = T_T) and the screenshot in the other threa I am guessing the reason it shows this is because the client has to ask the server for your display name. It already knows your email since that is what you used to log in. If that is the case you won’t ever see it for other people because if the server is going to send anything it will send the display name.

You could try reproducing the problem by simulating a bad connection. Something like http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/packet.scheduler/sch_netem would be a fairly cheap way to test.

I have the same issue.

I posted this to Mike, it was showing for people in my party. He thought it was weird too.