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Are US and EU character names tied?

iKittyiKitty Member Posts: 6
in Guild Wars 2

I find it hard to believe that at 5am, the whole of europe was up and attempting to login to GW2.

Finding character names is like finding a needle in a haystack, even with the most obscure of names

So I'm just wondering. are the names tied to all servers? I didn't realise US and EU servers played together

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  • ResertonReserton Member Posts: 52

    Names are worldwide and span all servers, basically there is only 1 of each name available to the entire world... Yeah what a terrible idea..

     

    And launching at around 5am for Europe and 9pm USA, Should have launched it at 8am USA so most of the world didnt have to stay up early in the morning just to try and grab a name,

  • klerkenklerken Member UncommonPosts: 53
    don't know about the servers sharing names, but  as far as i know, if you had a guild wars account you could reserve the names from guild wars for guild wars 2, if thats right i guess a few million names is taken from the get go
  • ResertonReserton Member Posts: 52
    Originally posted by klerken
    don't know about the servers sharing names, but  as far as i know, if you had a guild wars account you could reserve the names from guild wars for guild wars 2, if thats right i guess a few million names is taken from the get go

    Except in Guild Wars 1 you could only have 2 word names, 1 word names were a free for all.

  • iKittyiKitty Member Posts: 6

     

  • ResertonReserton Member Posts: 52
    Originally posted by iKitty

    That was only for GW1 names, which were always forced to be two words. Single word names are up for grabs by anyone. I feel bad for anyone who didn't pre-purchase

     

    By time they get on they will be left with random second names or numbers on the end of their names.. will suck.

  • heartlessheartless Member UncommonPosts: 4,993
    Originally posted by iKitty

    That was only for GW1 names, which were always forced to be two words. Single word names are up for grabs by anyone. I feel bad for anyone who didn't pre-purchase

     

    Just to give everyone an idea of how bad it was, I had 5 single word names picked out. By the time I got one, the other 4 were taken.

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  • CalamarCalamar Member Posts: 116

    Aye, they are tied.

    I actually woke up at 5:30 just to get my names (launch -3 hours was at 6:00 a.m. for me). None of them were avaliable at the last stress test, so was either wake up early or probably loose them.

    I have been using some of them since 1999 on every mmorpg I have played  (using same sex, race and class when possible)  so I feel kinda attached to them.

    Happy as a fat cat because I got them all.

     

     

     

     

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