Guild Wars 2

I am new to the game, just bought it yesterday. I come on today and they changed my name to Nectar Shop. My name before was “Porn Stache”. Did they really change my name because it was inappropriate? If so, why did it allow me to choose that name in the first place?! Also, I have received 0 emails or notifications from them letting me know they changed it or for what reason. Is there a way to change it back? I sent in 2 tickets yesterday and have received 0 emails back helping me with my issues, but with no hesitation they change my name because it has “porn” in it. Bad way to start a relationship with a new customer. Someone help? Considering I already received more help from these forums then I have had from them? Thanks in advance.

(If admins read this and can do something please change my name to “Po12nStache” thank you)

Well, if you had read the ToS, you would have known not to name yourself “Porn Stache” in the first place. Suggestive names like this are against ToS, so yes, they renamed you because your name was inappropriate.

They did not “let you know” they changed it because you’d see it soon enough anyway. They don’t have to let you know. They don’t even have to rename you, they could just ban you.

And no matter how many emails you write to CS, you won’t get your old name back, period. Switching a few numbers around probably won’t help, either, since the meaning is still clear. Otherwise we could all just get around this rule (that we all agreed to, by the way) by switching letters and numbers around.

Also, a piece of advice for the future: Don’t give your characters names like that, either. Also not allowed.

And “Red Queen” isn’t suggestive? LOL. Thanks, but yea, didn’t ask for your advice, I asked for help on how to change my name. Thanks anyway.

Red Queen is a character from Alice in Wonderland. I don’t know where your mind is, but I don’t find it suggestive.

You are asking for advice. That’s generally what “help” is. You should have read and known by the TOS that your name wasn’t appropriate. The alternate you want to switch it to, also won’t be allowed. So we are being helpful by trying to get you to understand and not make the same mistake or waste time putting in tickets that will get you no where.

Now, having gone into my own account settings, I don’t see and don’t believe there is any way to change your account name yourself. I believe the only way you can change it is to talk to a support person. As they released a somewhat massive patch today that unfortunately comes with tons of bugs, I’m pretty sure they are being overwhelmed with support requests, and unfortunately for you, I’m going to guess that an account rename is probably low on their priority list at the moment. It sucks, and I’m sorry that you feel your first experience hasn’t been what you consider to be positive. Hopefully you and ArenaNet can come to some sort of username that you will be happy with and you’ll be able to enjoy the game.

Welcome to GW2… if you stick around I’m sure you’ll have a good time.

OP, you can’t change your name and I doubt support will change it for you. Your original name was determined to violate the naming policy by Anet. When this occurs Anet changes the name to one of their choosing which is usually an anagram of the name that was changed. I’m afraid you will have to deal with the name Anet gave you.

Also regarding your support request. You should only submit one support ticket as submitting duplicate tickets actually slows response time. You should close your second ticket.

LOL. I didn’t know that about the anagram… and that’s totally what it is. Too funny.

Lord Arhan and JustTrogdor. Thank you for your responses, much appreciated. And yes, didn’t realize it was an anagram either, it’s actually kinda cool lol.

Keep in mind too, that that name is really only for forum use or a name to give people who want to add you to their friend list in game. Your character name(s) is/are separate from your account name. Unless you want to name one of your characters Nectar Shop…

id take nectar shop over this :L, but, im unable to get mine changed

Lord Arhan Warmark.7098:

Red Queen is a character from Alice in Wonderland.

Truuuuuee Alice in Wonderland isn’t remotely suggestive.

Well there was a time when Chess pieces and boards weren’t black and white but red and white due to the fact the pieces and board were carved out of stone or wood and obsidian is difficult to carve as oppose to red marble or granite or rosewood.

muslumgurseks.4951:

Lord Arhan Warmark.7098:

Red Queen is a character from Alice in Wonderland.

Truuuuuee Alice in Wonderland isn’t remotely suggestive.

Sarcasm duly noted. LOL. Just because the story has suggestive parts in it, doesn’t mean the name of one of its characters is suggestive in and of itself.

Now that escalated quickly oO

So fictional characters (in the public domain, mind you, so not against the naming policy) and scientific principles named after them are now suggestive when the original piece of fiction was kinda suggestive sometimes. Got it.
So… are bookshelves suggestive now? Because I’m pretty sure I’ve seen porn with bookshelves in the background. I mean, the shelves weren’t doing anything suggestive, but I’m sure being in a porno somehow made them naughty, right?
Wait, I’ve got actual porn on my bookshelves. Dang. That’s unfortunate… Anyway, my point still stands, and I sincerely doubt my name is in any way suggestive.

Look, I just meant to a) explain why your name got changed and b) what you can do to avoid this issue in the future (though maybe I my tone was a little snide; I’ve got a headache, I’m moody). Obviously, and that doesn’t even have anything to do with the case at hand, no-one from staff thought my name was inappropriate, and surely the number of players who looked at it and thought “woah now, that’s not okay!” is tiny, if these people exist at all.
“Porn Stache” is an entirely different thing, and you should be aware that anything similar will get the same treatment (in case of a character, that would be the game asking you to rename the toon before you can proceed to play with it).

Red Queen.7915:

Now that escalated quickly oO

So fictional characters (in the public domain, mind you, so not against the naming policy) and scientific principles named after them are now suggestive when the original piece of fiction was kinda suggestive sometimes. Got it.
So… are bookshelves suggestive now? Because I’m pretty sure I’ve seen porn with bookshelves in the background. I mean, the shelves weren’t doing anything suggestive, but I’m sure being in a porno somehow made them naughty, right?
Wait, I’ve got actual porn on my bookshelves. Dang. That’s unfortunate… Anyway, my point still stands, and I sincerely doubt my name is in any way suggestive.

Look, I just meant to a) explain why your name got changed and b) what you can do to avoid this issue in the future (though maybe I my tone was a little snide; I’ve got a headache, I’m moody). Obviously, and that doesn’t even have anything to do with the case at hand, no-one from staff thought my name was inappropriate, and surely the number of players who looked at it and thought “woah now, that’s not okay!” is tiny, if these people exist at all.
“Porn Stache” is an entirely different thing, and you should be aware that anything similar will get the same treatment (in case of a character, that would be the game asking you to rename the toon before you can proceed to play with it).

Nah… there was no escalation. I find the whole thread has been somewhat easygoing and playful. OP may have seemed a bit aggressive in his response to you, but I didn’t think it was overly so. But that’s just how I chose to interpret things. I try not to read too much tone into things people say in forums. I think the OP got the answers and help he was looking for… A new player looking for answers from other players when he didn’t get a quick response from technical support.

All good I would think. I shall never look at another bookshelf the same way Red Queen… Clearly, they are all filthy. LOL

Also, as a side note. If you submit more than 1 ticket it will increase your wait time by 12 to 16 days.

Lord Arhan Warmark.7098:

Red Queen.7915:

Now that escalated quickly oO

So fictional characters (in the public domain, mind you, so not against the naming policy) and scientific principles named after them are now suggestive when the original piece of fiction was kinda suggestive sometimes. Got it.
So… are bookshelves suggestive now? Because I’m pretty sure I’ve seen porn with bookshelves in the background. I mean, the shelves weren’t doing anything suggestive, but I’m sure being in a porno somehow made them naughty, right?
Wait, I’ve got actual porn on my bookshelves. Dang. That’s unfortunate… Anyway, my point still stands, and I sincerely doubt my name is in any way suggestive.

Look, I just meant to a) explain why your name got changed and b) what you can do to avoid this issue in the future (though maybe I my tone was a little snide; I’ve got a headache, I’m moody). Obviously, and that doesn’t even have anything to do with the case at hand, no-one from staff thought my name was inappropriate, and surely the number of players who looked at it and thought “woah now, that’s not okay!” is tiny, if these people exist at all.
“Porn Stache” is an entirely different thing, and you should be aware that anything similar will get the same treatment (in case of a character, that would be the game asking you to rename the toon before you can proceed to play with it).

Nah… there was no escalation. I find the whole thread has been somewhat easygoing and playful. OP may have seemed a bit aggressive in his response to you, but I didn’t think it was overly so. But that’s just how I chose to interpret things. I try not to read too much tone into things people say in forums. I think the OP got the answers and help he was looking for… A new player looking for answers from other players when he didn’t get a quick response from technical support.

All good I would think. I shall never look at another bookshelf the same way Red Queen… Clearly, they are all filthy. LOL

Red Queen is correct though, I was kinda being kittenish… but only because I caught onto his snide tone Lol. Glad it’s all settled though. I too am in a mood due to this, and the fact I can’t play in the same server as my gf and friends since the server is full -.-’. Do you guys happen to know anything about that? She and friends are in “Blackgate”. Been trying since yesterday to get in (even tried at 2-3 a.m PST).

And is that true? They delay the response if you submit more than one ticket?

Well, there are just those days, I guess we both had one today^^

Full servers remain full until another player transfers (among other things, Anet don’t exactly give all the details about the system used to determine a server’s capacity). Since Blackgate is pretty popular, I’m afraid your only chance is to camp it until a spot opens. Though if you don’t want to play WvW with your friends, you can have any home server and still play with them in PvE and PvP. Just group with them and join their map, or have them join yours.
If you want to mess around in the game until there’s a spot on Blackgate available, you can create some characters now and just play, then delete them all later to transfer to Blackgate for free. Your gold and stuff in your bank will still be there after transfer (except soulbound items).

As for the CS wait time thing, it’s not CS deliberately delaying the response, it’s the system that automatically puts all your tickets together at the end of the queue. Which is why updating a ticket instead of creating a new one is the better course of action.

Nectar Shop.7438:

….My name before was “Porn Stache”. Did they really change my name because it was inappropriate? …..

Yes they did.

They will not change it by asking here.

Open a ticket with Support, but unless the name is a security risk (has RL info in it), they will likely NOT change it.

Good Luck!

Well, Nectar Shop isn’t bad. Just think, it could have been…

peach snort

snore patch

pert nachos

stoner chap

…although maybe not that last one.

“Pert Nachos” BWA HA HA HA HA HA. I think “Peach Snort” sort of sounds like a bunch of old guys sitting around sampling booze. LOL

this is so goood xDDD

Nectar Shop

gotta love the dev that chose this anagram

They probably used an anagramm generator like http://wordsmith.org/anagram/ and picked one which sounded remotely good :p

It would have been awesome if they made it “Cant Hes Pro”. Only a comma after cant!!!!

I prefer Pert Nachos myself.

I dunno, I find Nectar Shop to be both original and funny.

Pesto Ranch, Open Starch, Archon Pest, Trench Soap…

Pesto Ranch. That just made me hungry.

Chaste Porn
Hornets Cap
Honest Crap ^^