Screwed over by Bioware!

What I don't get in this is that there didn't seem to be any eye for seniority as in who got the name first but being merged onto an existing server meant that whoever was on that server already got first dibs basically.

I was sharing this with my wife and she totally missed the point.

She thought the names were awesome, commenting: "But where's Turbo, Nitro and Ice?"

And she has an amazingly good point. With this bag of cheese in your loading screen, you pretty much have to start up the American Gladiators guild. Heck, I'd even front you the 5000 credits to set it up. See... if you embrace the cheese --own the cheese-- and tag these guys as icons of 90's faux-cool, then they would actually approach being Epic.

(My wife is great)

Everybod who got "screwed" says that they could have "handled it better"

I would really like to know how this could have been improved, cause I don't see a win-win scenario in this anywhere.

They could have simply set up new servers and given everyone a fair chance. First come, first serve. It's that simple.

You're obviously not a SW fan beyond the movies. Darth Bane implemented the "Rule of Two", meaning there would only be a Master and an Apprentice to rule at one time.

As for the OP, you're whining is growing tiresome so please **** and let it go. You ignored the rules and are butthurt about a name you lost, a name that isn't legal to use mind you.

You're unoriginal names aren't epic and never will be. Try using your head, you know that lump 3 feet above your *****, and come up with something original for once in your life.

Bane is also a major God from Forgotten Realms. Being that that is the active world for Wizards of the Coast D&D game, allowing its use could lead to a suit against EA/Bioware. Its copyrighted. Therefore can't be used. Kinda common in just about every game I've played, you can't use copyrighted names. While they might not catch it right away, they sure as hell can, and do, change the name when they do catch it. I understand the frustration, I really do, names are everything, and I will delete a character if the name I choose was changed to something I cant stand. But I try very hard to stay away from copyrights, especially from sue-happy companies like WOTC and Palladium Books.

They could have simply set up new servers and given everyone a fair chance. First come, first serve. It's that simple.

The fact that I was able to make the character with the name says it all. I even rerolled the character after patch 1.2 because I had made several human characters, and I would rather level up a different race to get a new legacy unlock. So even some time after patch 1.2, people could still name their characters Bane. It wasn't until the launch of the latest Batman movie that the name suddenly got added to the prohibited list. So what if someone makes a movie next year with the name of one of your own charcters? Must Bioware then add that name to the prohibited list and ask you to rename your character? It all starting to get a bit ridiculous. If someone owns the copyright on the word Bane, what about Reaper, or Grace, or Titan? Nvidia just launched a new series of graphics cards named Titan. Did they own that word? Where does it stop?

It makes me wonder sometimes, just how many words in the dictionary are copyright protected? And how many word-combinations? Why does it even matter what we call our characters in a silly gameworld anyway? Even if my character was named Superman, it's not like I would be earning money off the brandname or anything. Would DC seriously sue some random guy on the other side of the planet for having a character named Superman? I could buy some random.com and make a forum just to call myself Superman on that forum. Would DC sue me over that? It's crazy. I could understand that since this is a SW game, they'd put in rules about not allowing names like Skywalker, but if you're going to disallow every word in the dictionary because someone copyrighted that word, then we'd be left with names looking like encryption keys. I'd seriously like someone to explain it to me why MMO's bother adding all these restrictions. Fear of litigation? That's ridiculous!