Arenanet Blog - Reserving your GW1 name for GW2

fiontar

New Arenanet Blog post up about reserving your name from GW1 for GW2.

Seems like another hint we are getting close to release.

http://www.arena.net/blog/reserving-your-character-name-for-guild-wars-2

Thus our policy will simply be as follows: to preserve your character name from Guild Wars into Guild Wars 2, you must be an active Guild Wars player (more on that below), and you must create a Guild Wars 2 character with the same name as your Guild Wars character during the Headstart Access period or on launch day.

After launch day (and after we work through support tickets filed on launch day), we’ll free up the millions of unclaimed names for new Guild Wars 2 players to use.

To implement this name reservation system, we need to build a list of the character names of active Guild Wars players that we’ll reserve through launch day. We actually need to build that list a few weeks prior to the launch of Guild Wars 2.

So we’ll use the following very generous definition of active: Guild Wars players will be considered active—thus having their Guild Wars names reserved and available to claim during Headstart Access and on launch day—if they have logged into the game at least once between January 1, 2012 and the day we build the name reservation list.

We’ll warn the community before we build the list, but that’s irrelevant, because there’s no reason for anyone to wait. If you want to reserve character names from Guild Wars into Guild Wars 2, log in to the original game now so we know you’re active!

bookworm438

Sounds pretty fair. The only bad side is that because GW2 only has 5 character slots, and GW1 has 8+ (if you bought more), you're going to have to pick and choose which names you'll want in GW2.

TheDor

So once we see the announcement for the list being built, we'll know we're only a few weeks from launch... Or once they announce that launch is x weeks away, we'll know when they'll build the list.

Zeus.CM

Originally posted by bookworm438

Sounds pretty fair. The only bad side is that because GW2 only has 5 character slots, and GW1 has 8+ (if you bought more), you're going to have to pick and choose which names you'll want in GW2.

That's a valid point. I guess if you plan to have that many characters in gw2 anyway, you should buy more character slots on release.