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But otherwise, nope. Just find ways around your issue that won’t penalize other players.
If they’re inactive for over 2 years, they are no longer considered a "player’.
Since they aren’t “playing” the game.People who have other obligations in life can find a way to log in to keep their accounts active. If not, then it’s their loss. There’s no reason Anet should keep inactive account names dormant simply because someone “might” come back.
Actually, the fact they “might” come back is exactly why. People who come back after an extended period of inactivity, come back to play their characters, the ones they created. Getting forced to change your name can definately make that person just stop right there and not come back at all.
After all, Anet would want those players to come back instead of giving them one more push to ensure they wont even bother anymore at all. And they did talk about being able to return without loosing anything, that includes their character’s name.
Also, it’s not that hard to come up with a new name, i make new characters regularly and at the worst i’m down to my fourth-fifth choice.
So, if someone comes back to play new content. They will uninstall instantly if their name has been reset?
Even though you yourself just wrote “Its not that hard to come up with a new name”
You contradict yourself, which is why your argument doesn’t work
But otherwise, nope. Just find ways around your issue that won’t penalize other players.
If they’re inactive for over 2 years, they are no longer considered a "player’.
Since they aren’t “playing” the game.
People who have other obligations in life can find a way to log in to keep their accounts active. If not, then it’s their loss. There’s no reason Anet should keep inactive account names dormant simply because someone “might” come back.
What happens to say people that play GW2 and are in the military. Say they have to deploy of 18 months or longer? Is it fair they come back and find their names gone? I don’t think so. What happens if someone doesn’t have the means to play for an extended period of time due to illness or other circumstances? Is it fair for them to lose their names? I think not.
It is fair. They chose to join the military, and they know as a consequence they may be gone for 18 months. That is no basis for them to be able to hang onto a name that is not in use for over a year and a half. Not to mention, I know plenty of people in the military who still game. They’re not in constant warfare 24/7, simply because they are deployed.
And if you’re gone for over 2 year due to an illness, I think you have bigger things to worry about than losing your name in an online game.
I suggest you become more creative in your naming because if you are running into a problem naming, it’s because you aren’t unique in going for the low hanging fruit of punny names or anime/TV/movie/book character “homage”. There are way too many Drizzts in too many fantasy MMOs already. Try harder.
Lol, there’s always that one person on the forums who makes baseless assumptions.
move along
Guild Wars 2 has been out for 2 years now, and with the flow of new characters being created every day it’s getting really hard to come up with a name that’s not already taken.
I am certain there are a several thousand accounts that have been inactive since the game has started. So why should these dormant accounts have reservation to a particular character name, when they haven’t set foot in Tyria for over 2 years?
Can A-net please address this problem, and loosen up some character names for the rest of the community?