Updated over a week ago. On Disqus, the Username and Display name are separate, and serve distinct purposes for a user's account. The Display Name is what shows up next to a user’s comments, and does not need to be unique. The Username is a separate account identifier, and indicates the direct URL which can be used to visit a user’s profile.In addition the number of packets per second generated by pingplotter would be trivial in comparison to the GW2 client. Finally the server CPU cycles required for an (ICMP) ping response will be trivial compared to processing GW2 messages. In all running Pingplotter would be an overhead of probably less than 1% in most cases.
Just a reminder that changing your display name is now an option according to the post by the Anet employee in the reddit link in my OP. I know a lot of people have asked about it in the past because they were unhappy with their display name. So for those of you that are unhappy with it, you can now gift yourself a new display name for
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