Well thanks a lot Bioware.

You are all missing the big picture, which is the real problem:

Bioware literally expected everyone playing to be able to come up with a unique, pronounceable name from 26-lettters. This is completely impossible when it comes to the thousands of people playing on each server. The alphabet simply can't do that, and we have to resort to accented characters, misspellings, and unpronounceable garbage that we didn't want in the first place.

It's inane that no one over at BW thought of this. I mean, they coded this game literally from the ground up. They could have done anything they wanted, but no one over there put any thought into it, and here we are 2 years after launch still having dissatisfied customers over this.

Lack for forethought has been this game's biggest issues from Day-1. It permeated so many parts of this game's development that it's sickening to think of all the wasted money and all the people at BW who lost their jobs when the sub-numbers tanked because of it.

Your math skills are lacking. The amount of pronounceable combinations in the alphabet is staggering.

You are all missing the big picture, which is the real problem:

Bioware literally expected everyone playing to be able to come up with a unique, pronounceable name from 26-lettters. This is completely impossible when it comes to the thousands of people playing on each server. The alphabet simply can't do that, and we have to resort to accented characters, misspellings, and unpronounceable garbage that we didn't want in the first place. Some people may not care, but to others a name is an identity. It's how you're known, it's the first thing people see when they meet you, and most importantly it's plastered all over your screen the entire time you're playing.

It's inane that no one over at BW thought of this. I mean, they coded this game literally from the ground up. They could have done anything they wanted, but no one over there put any thought into it, and here we are 2 years after launch still having dissatisfied customers over this.

Lack for forethought has been this game's biggest issues from Day-1. It permeated so many parts of this game's development that it's sickening to think of all the wasted money and all the people at BW who lost their jobs when the sub-numbers tanked because of it.

Maybe they're just really bad at it?

Seriously, though, I understand your feelings. Some of us pre-ordered the game so we could get early access, partly so we could be assured of getting the name we wanted. Maybe it was a carryover from another game we played. Or one we thought was really clever and we wanted to get there first. And then the server consolidations came. Suddenly a character that we have grown to know and love as a certain name is going to be forced to live with a name that looks like it was created by a 2-week-old noob to the game. And even adding "Founder" to the end of the name doesn't really help that.

It's not a lack of forethought. It is a lack of creativity on the part of many players. It's so easy to come up with good names that aren't take and don't have special characters.
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I don't fully understand why I have to keep repeating myself.

i pre-ordered. I played in the beta. I got in early access and reserved my character names then lost them all in the first server merge, and now the second. You all keep referring to yourselves as "us", but I am one you.

I will ignore the trolls from here on in.

i'm not counting words like "desk", "lampshade", and "sink"; I'm not counter verbs like "running" or "grab" (I guess some people use adjectives like "Stinky" or "Smoking"). But I'm talking specifically about Names.