Transfer character names

Probably could have dodged many, many renames by having the destination servers be new servers. Preview weekends, and dead subs FTL.

I do enjoy seeing legions of Sngglebottms, Tweedpants, Lojacks, etc. running around though. Very immersive.

My question is this: if I try to transfer a character and am told that the name is already taken, can I cancel the transfer of that character if I don't want to rename the character? I would rather finish their stories on a nearly-dead server than have to rename them. For now I'm just crossing my fingers that my original server will be a destination server.

EDIT: I have sent a message directly to customer service and will post here their reply, in case other people are wondering this as well.

You'll only know if your name is taken if after transferring your toon name is gibberish, or as others have suggested go to the destination server and make a place holder.

Well...you are forced, but not to such bad choices. I think, and it is wild assumption, that it will come a time when they will throw all chars on some random server or spread them, with some lame excuse, then shut down. Which would be a worse solution than the one presented today.

Also, they say it will be in stages, so, for your server, there might be new servers open... might be better, might be worse.

I still think you should be paying to play with 200+ players on fleet, not 2 on the whole server.

In the end, it is your choice and your money are at stake so... you know better.

I don't think anybody is assuming anything about anybody. The original poster posited a realistic situation in which his character's name is being taken up by what might be a level 5 character on an inactive account that hasn't been played in months.

Given that server transfers are being made almost mandatory owing to a problem created by BioWare (because of server over-capping and the extent to which they widely distributed guilds at launch), and given that their solution entails only a single option for destination servers, anybody with half a brain would agree that the player who has 43 days put into a character and claimed his character name minutes after the server went online at early access has the right to that character name over the other guy. If you don't agree, then I guess we can deduce what that says about you.

This may have been discussed in other threads, but it's still the first thread that comes up when you do a Google search, and though it may be a dead horse, BioWare need to understand how much they're cheesing off loyal customers.

If I were you, I would put less energy into being snarky and dismissive of things other players care about and more energy into just playing the game and minding your own business.

Sigh...

Hard to do that without a list of destination servers showing where we could potentially be going.

Just like in the real world, one has to be flexible. Setting up rigid expectations on the world around you only causes frustration and pain.