So, How Many Names Did You Lose?

3 out of 8 transferred. No big deal. I just renamed my Agent, SW, and SI.

There's a guy over in the Community forum claiming that he's an "internet legend", so we should all give him the name he wants.

I logged on Dec 13th at 4 am. There were 4 PVE west coast servers open. I reserved my name on all of them and started on my legacy on my chosen server (chosen by BIOware for my guild)

The server they transferred me to was not open right away on early access, so I had no opportunity to reserve my names there.

I lost 4 lvl 50 names, and my legacy name (most important).

They lost my subscription.

I did everything I possibly could outside of NOT playing the game during early access and sitting watching for new servers to open to reserve names on... yet the blame goes straight to the customer, because god forbid anyone could intelligently code multiple names on one server.

May seem like small potatoes to some, but why in ****s sake would I take a day off work, and log in at 4 AM on dec 13th if my names were not important to me??? what other benefit is early access???

So, in a game already teetering on the brink of disaster due to bad planning and execution, yet another bad choice has lost more customers.

I put in over a year in beta for free for them, prepaid for CE edition, jumped through every hoop offered, only to be forgotten completely and made to feel like a vagabond who no one even knows on a new server with new names, and no friends lists.

in the immortal words of Silky Johnson at the player haters ball:

"I hate you. I hate you. I don't even know you, and I hate your guts. I hope all the bad things in life happen to you and nobody else but you. "

MrCopperfield can have his name as long as I can claim MsCopperfield.

I had to change 1 of 5 from 2 servers. I have 3 more on another server(Veela) with many of the same names that have yet to be tapped to transfer.

Lost two.

For the others I was able to go in and claimed on the server when I heard about it just in case this worst case scenario played out... which it did. Everyone picked up and left even though Sanctum of the Exalted wasn't a ghost town. I was able to get groups for heroics and FPs. Now it is a ghost town.

Must be nice to be on the destination servers. We lose our names and they get to keep all theirs. This is a forced merger. My server went from 23 in fleet in the morning to 3(including me). I was the only guy on Nar shadaa yesterday. So unless you plan to never do an operation or FP you have to leave. Losing names is not a big deal really, but it is still alittle unfair that we automatically lose our names because it's not based on account time, playtime with character, etc. I've had one since day 2 early access. This is a forced merger no matter how Bioware wants to spin it.

Lost 5 of 8. I expected 3 of 8, even though none of them are related to Star Wars, unless they were from some book I'd never heard of. One of them I'd bet the house I'd lose (my Smuggler named Kirk). The other one I thought I'd lose was a less common pop culture reference, but I still figured it would be gone ( my Trooper Hudson). I figured one other just for bad luck, but 5 total really surprised me. None of my other names are from any other big pop culture icons (or any pop culture reference for that matter), so I guess I was just really unlucky.

Lost both Legacy names, but both were just Latin words, so not really all that surprised that I lost both.

LOL @ the people cancelling over losing a stupid name. Obviously it's not that special or unique.

While I wont quit over it, I don't laugh about those people either. Of course it is not end of the world sort of extinction level event to come up with new names but it's extremely frustrating.
See, in all the online games I played over like 10-15 years, I always came late to the party..meaning the first few dozen names I wanted were always taken. With SWTOR, I made sure I pre-ordered, made sure to take off on 13.12. (and some more days), kept following the forums, refreshing, trying and made it in for wave 2 - first 10 minutes was rushing to get all the names I always wanted (about 4 or 5 that are important to me) and it was all worth the stress and effort.
I didn't think it would be fair to now go through all sorts of other servers and block them for strangers there, afterall, who could have thought that after half a year it comes to this here

Lost: 0/4 names, 0/1 Legacy.

I didn't really expect to lose anything except perhaps the one Latin-based name in my crew, but moving to a big RP server (Ebon Hawk), one never knows... Especially with Mando'a involved.

I'm even happier that we kept our guild name, though we did meet some other folks from a different origin server with a similar name (Beskar'ad). Whew

Every character moved (8 of them in all, to two different servers) and I lost all of them.

You seem in an awful big hurry to characterize this as "forced". To what end? What do you prove by convincing people they were forced?

There just isn't enough information to declare it so absolutely and no benefit in doing so. They could offer multiple destinations to the remaining origin server players because the intial destinations are too full tomorrow and you'd be wrong.