Why I won't transfer servers - Character Attachment

I agree with you OP. My chars names are very important in TOR. They are part of the role playing I liked doing in it and with that gone, the game dies too. Because afterall, TOR is really just KOTOR 3. My best advice is to unsub and move on because BioWare does not care. And ignore the posters here who like to insult and put down those who have a opinion that is not thier's. The whole transfers situation was done very poorly and what would be wrong with several having the same legacy names on a server? Are we saying there should only be one family name of Smith on the whole planet of Earth?

So to paraphrase the bard, is a toon, by any other name, just as sweet?

Please don't get my previous post wrong, I do respect the OP's opinion...

...as INSANE as it sounds.

I couldn't care less about a character name, and haven't done so for well over a decade. In the grand scheme of things the fact that I give a set of pixels a name doesn't make them all that important.

Then why post here?

What is lacking in your post, and maybe in yourself, is something called "empathy". Might try looking it up and understanding the word.

As for the OP, I too had several toons change names on their great adventure in BW transfer/mergeland. However I just changed them as little as possible. But, I do understand where you are coming from with your history of the names, and if I had the same I might feel the same, good luck where ever you wind up.

I sympathize with the OP. My characters that were created during headstart in Warhammer got merged so many times, that I got disgusted and quit...I hope SW:ToR's mergers are not handled as badly as Warhammer's. At least it's not EA....oh wait!

So you know ... there is no point in resisting. Staying on an origin server will only delay the inevitable until you get merged. That said, you MAY, get merged to a different server than your current destination, or they MAY open up transfers to any server of your choice .... so you MAY get lucky.

Still, your characters are going to leave their current server one way or another, sooner or later. If your name is too popular, chances are youre screwed either way. May as well transfer and get you perks now.

I get the felling something is going to happen by the 30th when these perks expire.

I just want to state flat out why none of the carrots they have offered to get me to move servers will work. I don't want to make this a complaining thread, because I have been a supporter of TOR from beta, and while it pains me to say it, will probably stop playing.

It all boils down to the one factor in why I would continue to play an MMO over any other game. My attachment to my characters.

Sure, TOR doesn't have a ton of customization options, custom housing, etc... but what it does have let me create my identity. My name was first and foremost, I rushed to get to the server assigned to me so I could forge that identity. I worked hard to unlock my legacy name. It is WHAT I AM in this game. Otherwise I am just some random toon.

Now with the 15>1 server ratio of mergers, I looked at my destination and all my names are taken except one. Legacy is likely gone too.

So to paraphrase the bard, is a toon, by any other name, just as sweet? Not to me.

So what are my choices? Lose everything I built and move? Or die at the eventual forced server merges?

Sure, TOR didn't handle names well, I get that. Not everyone understands the GENIUS that Cryptic came up with for Champions and STO. If our Legacy name was our identity, merges would be easier to handle. Sure, there might be 1000 Shaydes, but only one with my surname is me. This is nothing but woulda-shoulda-coulda.

Should TOR at least give us a destination choice? Absolutely. Let me find a server that I can get a few characters transferred to intact. That will improve things. Or how about giving us a couple more destination servers? There are queues now, why not open a couple more and give us better options?

I just had to get this out. I'm sure there are a lot of you out there that share my viewpoint. I know most of my guild leadership isn't moving for this VERY REASON. No free pet, or speeder, or other nonsense is going to do.

If we leave we lose our identity. That is all we truly have.