Screwed over by Bioware!

I agree 100% with the OP. It's complete and utter BS that we, the original players who chose to make the biggest contribution to support this game, got completely screwed over when it comes to names.

I have only two names I care anything about. Terin, which holds a deeply sentimental value to me, and Tristam, which I just really like. Yet, those names are now taken, by players who don't even log on, and may not even play the game whatsoever.

Something needs to be done.

Also, yeah, BioWare right screwed you, OP. I'm shocked how poor the Customer Service has been overall, but that actually seems as though it could be putting them at a legal fault. Not 100% sure, as digital law is still fairly uncharted territory, but either way, it would be wise of them to quickly resolve this issue and grant your name back, unless they want to seem possible legal actions taken in their future.

Not to be self-righteous or anything but who the hell do you really think you are, and how much *** do you really expect the rest of us to kiss before we can get a shot?

You don't think that maybe some of the rest of us that got over it were also early adopters? That maybe there was someone else who values their name just as much or possibly even more than you do, and therefore has just as much of a right to it as you do, even though they aren't asking to have a golden calf named after them in their honor?

The only benefits that you get as an early adopter is early access, and that's all you deserve. You pay the same as the rest of us after the initial release, so you get the same treatment.

so let me get this straight you are mad cuz you lost your name and called bio to cry about it and they said too bad?

Glad for ya. Or sad. Depending on whether or not you were hoping you'd get to rename. I'm sure some people did. But come on, there was no informed decision made there. Had I known... Had they told me that I could have a chance to keep my names, even if we're talking about a snowball's chance in hell I still would have stayed on Bao-Dur. After they realized how badly they screwed the pooch, they finally put in the effort of making a priority system for the second transfer. But, by that time, it was too late for most of us from the low-pop servers.

That's the dumbest thing I've heard out of you yet. There's no better way to support a game than to pre-order it and keep an active subscription. Why on Bigfoot's green Earth shouldn't devotion be rewarded?

We all made informed decisions. At the time of the original server transfers, we had all the information we needed to make the decision as to whether or not to remain on our original server. Everyone could have checked the destination server to see if their name was available. We were all notified when server transfers became available, and we were all informed that eventually everyone would be transferred off the origin servers.

I'm not going to go into whether or not EA/BW held information back from us, or even if they knew there would eventually be a second server merger at all. We can speculate all we want, but that is all it would be-speculation.

With the initial server transfers, the person on the destination server got to keep the name if there was a conflict. This is the same as any server transfer in any other game I've played. The reason for the "priority system" with the second server merger is that NO ONE remained on their server. All the servers were replaced with higher capacity severs, even if the new ones had the some of the same names. Everyone got transferred to a new server, therefore no one already had any given name on the destination server. Thus, EA/BW had to set some rules for how naming conflicts would be resolved since no one had the name first on the destination server.