The Name Tag, is a Base Grade Tag introduced to Counter-Strike: Global Offensive in the August 29, 2013 update.
Overview[]
A Name Tag permits a player to rename one weapon skin they currently own (including stock weapons) for $1.99 (USD)/1,75€ (EUR)/£1.69 (GBP) , allowing the name to be displayed with "quotes" around them in the kill cam, buy menu, and inventory and do not have to be unique.
A weapon's name's character limit is 20 and these characters can be used in the name:
A-Z, a-z, 0-9, `!@#$%^&*-+=(){}[]/\,.?:;'_
Note: Although spaces are allowed in the name, a name cannot start with a space. In addition, names with profanity are not allowed.
"|" character can be used to simulate "fake" skins names eg. "AK47 | [custom name]".
The weapon skin can be renamed again with another Name Tag. Applied Name Tags cannot be transferred between weapons.
Names Tags are maintained through trades and market sales, so they are not automatically removed from a weapon skin when the skin is traded.
The name on a weapon skin can be permanently removed at no cost using "Rename" option in the menu and selecting the "Remove Name?" option. The Name tag will NOT be returned.
When viewed in the weapon inventory through Steam, weapons applied with a name tag are marked with a red exclamation mark on the top left of the weapon icon.
Renaming a StatTrak™ weapon skin will not clear its StatTrak™ stats, but will remove "StatTrak™" from the name until the name tag is removed.
Trivia[]
- Before Panorama UI, the Name Tag supported the use of localization tokens. If the player renamed a weapon to "
#SFUIHUD_hostageid", the weapon name would display "Hostage %s" in the player's currently used language, with "Hostage" colored in the color specified in the localization file.[1]- When renaming, the player could only use localization tokens that were under 20 characters in length.[2]
- Since the Scaleform UI is no longer in use, this doesn't work anymore.
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