Pre-order, CE, early access, screwed over

Get over it! Schlitz happens! Deal with it! You get a more populated server! Bend over and take it!

You people just don't understand the RP aspect of the game you are playing at all. It's not about playing the role of a tank or a healzor. It's about playing the role of a Jedi Knight or Imperial Agent that you created. What you call a "simple name change" is really a character altering thing for some players and they have as much a right to complain about that as you have to complain about the problems with PvP and end game raiding. Stop being a bunch of hypocrites who act like your opinion and play styles are the only ones that matter and have some freaking compassion for cripes sakes.

Get over it! Schlitz happens! Deal with it! You get a more populated server! Bend over and take it!

You people just don't understand the RP aspect of the game you are playing at all. It's not about playing the role of a tank or a healzor. It's about playing the role of a Jedi Knight or Imperial Agent that you created. What you call a "simple name change" is really a character altering thing for some players and they have as much a right to complain about that as you have to complain about the problems with PvP and end game raiding. Stop being a bunch of hypocrites who act like your opinion and play styles are the only ones that matter and have some freaking compassion for cripes sakes.

If they're role-playing "properly" then the name their character has is what it is because that's what the character's parents named it, not because the character had any particular attachment to it or fondness for it. If they have to change it because of external purposes, they change it and off they go. It's just a name. It doesn't define the character.

This from a role-player.

Was I happy that I had to change some of my characters' names? Nope. Did it destroy my ability to RP those characters? Um... no, that would be pretty weak, wouldn't it?

I'm just saying try to see it from his point of view and stop telling him that his point of view is stupid or wrong. Sure changing your name might be all fine and dandy for you. I found ways to make my name changes work for me (plus I had the luxury of having saved my main name on all servers on the first day of head start). For him it is not. For him, his name was a defining point of his character and concept. Stop telling him to just get over it and move on.

That isn't quite true...

Pre-ordering for early access was advertised/marketed as "Start early, and get the names you want!" (Some paraphrasing, but the big tag line over the pre-order picture did say early access would grant you names.)

So, there will be some who pre-ordered for early access to get their names, under the idea that the names were their privilege for pre-ordering for early access.

If that true then, people who started early and had there name longer then someone who didn't, deserve a refund

What would his other choice be? Angst over the "small stuff" until it eats him up inside or he quits a game that he otherwise enjoys?

Oh, look, I spilled milk. Time to jump out the window and splatter myself on the pavement 40 stories down!