jurtjee.8943 Posted April 8, 2018 Share Posted April 8, 2018 Hey,I have a question, but I do not think it is possible. But the question is: Is it possible to get a user through his unique account name his GUID without his access key? The reason for this is because you can not rely on his unique account name because it can change.Sincerely,Jur Dekker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nokomis.5076 Posted April 8, 2018 Share Posted April 8, 2018 with account name you mean like jurtjee.8943? It is nearly impossible to change this name. Only the support will ever change your name if it violates any naming policy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archomeda.6472 Posted April 8, 2018 Share Posted April 8, 2018 No, this is impossible. The way the API is built, is that you need an account API key to get access to the account. This includes the account GUID. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jurtjee.8943 Posted April 8, 2018 Author Share Posted April 8, 2018 unique account name Can be change by Arenanet. So there is no way that it can be done? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nokomis.5076 Posted April 8, 2018 Share Posted April 8, 2018 As stated even ArenaNet does this only in very special cases.Out of curiousity, what is it you want to achieve with it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jurtjee.8943 Posted April 8, 2018 Author Share Posted April 8, 2018 I had a username search bar for the guild website, but lately a name was change and we count find hem anymore. So I want to find a solution for that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Illconceived Was Na.9781 Posted April 8, 2018 Share Posted April 8, 2018 @"jurtjee.8943" said:I had a username search bar for the guild website, but lately a name was change and we count find hem anymore. So I want to find a solution for that.Ask the player?It's true ANet can change account IDs, but they choose to never do so unless they have exhausted all other possible solutions to whatever ails the account owner. Dornsinger writesGenerally we do not offer display name changes ...because of a very hard and fast rule: Don't Break Your Customer's Account.Changing display names can break your ability for social interactions in the game. And by break, I am speaking of users whose display names were changed in 2014 who still are broken today. The way display names are handled, we only change them in very specific circumstances and often even then only on a case-by-case basis after checking the account's age and situation. We always warn users, even if we do offer the change, that things could break. And the worst is: There is no way for us to 'unbreak' things. once broken, you're stuck and nothing we do will fix you.... If we change your display name, we risk breaking your guild, your in-game mail, your ability to interact with the trade post and your whispers. In an MMO, we'd risk dooming a user to not being able to interact on any of the common social channels for days, weeks - or years.If it's something like a first name, chances are we deny. You can always ask to have your ticket be escalated and have a supervisor review it. But if we say no to a display name change, we say no because we are likely to utterly wreck your game account. And we simply do not want to risk that, as we cannot un-wreck.Thus another possibility is that the account name was changed and it broke something, which is why you can't find your "missing" member. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jurtjee.8943 Posted April 8, 2018 Author Share Posted April 8, 2018 @Illconceived Was Na.9781 said:@"jurtjee.8943" said:I had a username search bar for the guild website, but lately a name was change and we count find hem anymore. So I want to find a solution for that.Ask the player?It's true ANet can change account IDs, but they choose to never do so unless they have exhausted all other possible solutions to whatever ails the account owner. Dornsinger writesGenerally we do not offer display name changes ...because of a very hard and fast rule: Don't Break Your Customer's Account.Changing display names can break your ability for social interactions in the game. And by break, I am speaking of users whose display names were changed in 2014 who still are broken today. The way display names are handled, we only change them in very specific circumstances and often even then only on a case-by-case basis after checking the account's age and situation. We always warn users, even if we do offer the change, that things could break. And the worst is: There is no way for us to 'unbreak' things. once broken, you're stuck and nothing we do will fix you.... If we change your display name, we risk breaking your guild, your in-game mail, your ability to interact with the trade post and your whispers. In an MMO, we'd risk dooming a user to not being able to interact on any of the common social channels for days, weeks - or years.If it's something like a first name, chances are we deny. You can always ask to have your ticket be escalated and have a supervisor review it. But if we say no to a display name change, we say no because we are likely to utterly wreck your game account. And we simply do not want to risk that, as we cannot un-wreck.Thus another possibility is that the account name was changed and it broke something, which is why you can't find your "missing" member.Thanks, so i can store the unique account name inside my database for the search result? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Illconceived Was Na.9781 Posted April 8, 2018 Share Posted April 8, 2018 @jurtjee.8943 said:Thanks, so i can store the unique account name inside my database for the search result? You could. Should you? I suppose it depends on how you're using it. I can see the appeal of using the game's display name as a GUID, but near as I can tell, that's exactly why it's problematic for ANet to adjust it even for good reasons. I'd prefer for a GUID to be independent of human preferences and naming conventions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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