I find it absolutely ridiculous that the display name cannot be changed. Especially when there was no clear indication that it was going to be visible for everyone in game. I thought it would’ve maybe be seen on the forums tops, but in-game? No matter what character I’m on? Seriously?
It really seems like games are trying to go more towards the social media type of thing, where everyone knows everything about you all the time. What ever happened to privacy? I wrote a ticket about this issue and only got a reply that it’s not possible to change it, which I can’t understand. All it is for Anet is a push of a button.
I don’t mind if changing the display name costs money, it’s fine by me, as long as we get to change it. It’s a really weird design choice they’ve done with this.