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I imagine it will remain unavailable. To a precedent of random removal of character names, for whatever reason, is an extremely bad idea.
In the case of the Asia-Pacific transfers, the Legacy with the higher level was retained while the other was deleted. The individual levels/experience of the two legacies were not combined.

And thus an unsubstantiated conspiracy theory emerges.

Why is it common sense? what mmo has never had server merges? They are having server transfers so there is going to be servers with 2-nobody on them, why would they keep them open?

LOL, then why do game companies hide their server numbers now? to me its more of a theory to assume they arent trying to hide something when they are OBVIOUSLY HIDING SOMETHING.

I don't know, back in WoW classic there were a few servers that were just slammed and overpopulated, so before they did paid transfers they allowed certain servers to go from those to others. I personally left Stormreaver for Korgath. When I got there my name was taken, so I petitioned. They said it was held by a level 1 with virtually no /played, so they let me have my name. No skies fell there.

The only difference might be when the character was created, I think in that situation some of our enemy guilds on Stormreaver heard we were transferring and went and grabbed up all the names of the main players in our guild as a rude gesture as we left.

And if someone has a vested interest and wants to fight it they have an opportunity to ticket it as well. Personally though part of my toon is the name, transferring off the character without the name is only like getting part of the character.

I'd rather have part of something though than all of nothing I guess.

Stop comparing what wow did, it;s obvious this dev team won't learn from them.

The populations are not comparable, WoW is a freaking juggernaut in terms of population. This game has servers with less people online than a single BF3 server...

This game will never see even a fraction of WoW's numbers. It;s like comparing the population of Hawaii to the rest of the United States.

And EQ's launch was a complete NIGHTMARE. It's a damned if you do, damned if you don't scenario. Either have a horrible launch with every server having 6 hour queues, or do it smooth with more servers to handle the load, then deal with "game is dying" Chicken Littling until you cull them back. BioWare chose the latter, and will very likely close some servers.

Yes, there are too many TOR servers right now. That's being handled.

Actually, TOR has more subs now than WoW did at 4 months old...

The reason they hide it has nothing to do with obscuring info from the playerbase. It has to do with the market and competition. The more the competition is in the dark about actual sub numbers, the better it is for the company for a myriad reasons.

It's gotte quite cut-throat out there...

Actually skies did fall. I recall what happened, and it was something that occurred in WoW's days before the launch population settled in the same way it has in SWTOR now. Someone then posted it to the boards, encouraging others to seek GM help to get the names they wanted. Alerted to the situation by this, others in the community checked their alt characters, saw that they were effected, and demanded action. Blizzard ended up disavowing the action, blaming it on a handful of customer service staff; and people lost their jobs as a result.