Screwed over by Bioware!

It's irrelevant if you care or not. You write about what other people think. Maybe you write without caring (I'll buy that, based on the thread).

"Popularity" is all about what people think. And here, you claim that you can't find a single person (that's what "nobody" means) who does not consider your names awesome! Emphasis mine:

This is about what "anybody" thinks.

Emphasis mine. I was on a low-pop server and I did not get shafted at all, let alone completely.

You are making a big universal claim about "everyone." Don't.

Hey, trying to stick it out for your guild is admirable, and fighting for your principles, what can i say besides that i wish there were more people in the world like that. What was that famous line "Give me liberty or give me death", you know he got death first (one might say death liberates us from our earthly bondage ) followed by liberty.

Above you say you have a big active guild and if your trying to get Biowhatevers attention, get them into the fight, ( your guild ) ask them to join your thread. It just seems to me the more people you have supporting you the better the chances you'll be heard. Or start a new thread and have each person from your guild follow with a post of their own in support. if your gonna fight, fight smart. Heck i'd throw in with ya if i thought there was a snowballs chance in hades they would implement a new naming system, but i don't, its too late into the game, take too much time,effort and resources and couldn't be sold on the store ( i mention the store not as an snide joke but they need a return on investment, this is a business after all )

Or maybe, drop this and fight for something you might actually get like Guild Starcruisers. Something your whole guild could benifit from and enjoy.

@OP

Move on. I lost my favorite names to the merges, but guess what - I came up with even better names which I'm proud for my characters to bear.

As I said before: If they grant his name back (Bane, the one he claimed was the reason behind the thread... back when he tried to claim that Customer Service was the reason behind the thread.... no idea which argument he'll have switched to by the time this actually gets read), I'll send it repeated tickets to have it removed, as it violates the naming rules, and the naming rules supersede any sort of character transfer priority system. If they give him back Reaper, then I'll start sending in tickets demanding that I be given back a couple of the names I lost in the transfer. After all, if he's special enough to get his names back, why aren't I?

...and I'd hope that whoever would lose Reaper would submit tickets demanding that they be given Reaper back, as it was taken without any fair chance for them to keep it.

He had his name. He KNEW that name was invalid after having tried to create other characters with that name on other servers--not "unavailable", INVALID. He sent in a ticket and by his own admission, he did not believe the response that he would get to keep his precious name. He sent in a second ticket and made calls until he finally convinced himself of something he KNEW to be untrue. He sent the second ticket and he made the calls. EA/BW did not call him out of the blue and tell him over and over that he could create another character with that name in an attempt to get him to delete the character.

Yes, the CSR's made a mistake when they advised him of the general policy-that if a character with a given name is deleted, that name becomes available for the next person who attempts to use it-as long as it is a valid name and not on a banned list. This policy does not necessarily mean EVERY name is available once a character is deleted. Names get added to the banned list over time and a name that was not banned when the character was created may be banned when that character is deleted. Did the OP bother to tell the CSR's he spoke to what name he was talking about deleting and recreating? Did the OP tell the CSR's that he had attempted to create other characters with that name and the name was invalid, not just unavailable, but invalid? Do the CSR's even have a list of banned names they can check if they ever run into this again?

At what point does the OP need to assume responsibility for his own actions, and for the fact that he KNEW the name was invalid, did not believe the first response he got, and chose to continue asking until he finally convinced himself of something he KNEW to be untrue? I believe that time is long past, but the OP wants to continue to play the victim and blame someone else.

You see the other people that reserved these names are like Hoodling. They will play them eventually at their convenience since they have reserved them. And if they don't, well too bad - they got them first and they deserve them. Hoodling will back me up on this.

Except that Hoodling won't. It doesn't go with his "I'm the victim" theme. He'll have some excuse why he should get the name even though the other player had it first.

Seriously, the collection of names you picked are the most dull and unimaginative names I've ever read in this game. Who even names his characters like that? How old are you to even come out and make a lamenting thread about this? Thats just sad, really. If I see someone ingame like you I just smile, shake my head and move on. I hardly think thats the effect you want to have on people. Better rethink.

Ever accured to you that this guy/girl over the CS isn't a Star Wars geek? He/she told you what they do know - that if you delete your character the name would be available - which is true. What that person could not know is that you unimaginatively named your character Bane of all things and, as all SW geeks know, is a copywrited name.

You should have before creating this bantha poo of a thread.