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Dayshadow
06.14.2012 , 10:10 AM | #181
Quote: Originally Posted by Matte_Black View Post
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.
My server is now completely dead, which is exactly what Bioware wanted. I now have 2 options.

A.) Quit
B.) Move to The Ebon Hawk

That's pretty much forced in my book.
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zVariant
06.14.2012 , 10:20 AM | #182
So I'm immediately regretting my transfer, I lost all my character names including my legacy (which even used alt characters). BioWare could have done so many different things for transfers that didn't screw over the majority of player's names they have had since launch. The only ones spared were a few with enough luck to roll on a destination server months ago including plenty that probably haven't even subbed in months. I am genuinely pissed right now and wished I had never transferred.

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ZenMorph
06.14.2012 , 10:26 AM | #183
I lost my main toon name, an alt name, and my legacy name.

And.... I'm not upset in the least. (and I participate in RP).

Quite the contrary, I looked at it as an opportunity for story development. In this case, my main has ticked-off a prominant Hutt-Lord and unfortunately acquired a substantial bounty. So, she had to change her primary name and her family name (legacy). This has also endangered the rest of the family (could be kidnapped or used as bait) and so it was imperative to change the family name. Republic SI has assisted with the identity change and increased surveillance for protection.

Just takes a little imagination.
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runback
06.14.2012 , 10:33 AM | #184
Quote: Originally Posted by SlimsPicken View Post
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. "
I totally feel you and did everything you did. I was there on day 1 of EGA, one of the first people in the game, just to get my names. My names are everything to me in an MMO. I knew there was no way in hell I had a chance to keep them if I had to leave my server. I havent logged in the game in a few weeks and was holding out specifically for this. Now that I know, its time to leave this game.

Its not just losing the names...I had been on the fence for a while now about canceling. This was just the straw that broke the camels back. My name is my identity just as my avatars looks are. I may as well just start fresh if i'm gonna lose my name.....No way i'm doing that.

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RaithHarth
06.14.2012 , 10:34 AM | #185
If your unhappy with losing your name, feel free to add your suggestions here
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Matte_Black
06.14.2012 , 10:36 AM | #186
Quote: Originally Posted by Dayshadow View Post
My server is now completely dead, which is exactly what Bioware wanted. I now have 2 options.

A.) Quit
B.) Move to The Ebon Hawk

That's pretty much forced in my book.
We seem to be in the same boat then. I lost one name among three characters on my way from Lord Adraas to Ebon Hawk. If your old server is dead, it would seem like your community mostly made the transfer too. I traded a sort of unoriginal name that I could have taken a very close permutation of for a bunch of extra play opportunites on top of all my old ones.

I bet BioWare hoped that entire servers would transfer. Again "hoped" but, it was not a gurantee and there are a few outliers. I view "forced" differently, especially when things are in play but, let's assume this was "forced". What's your point? The play experience is a better one. If the game is bad and devs can't code out their way out of a paper bag, why are you here and how does whining about it improve anything?
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BubbleDncr
06.14.2012 , 10:39 AM | #187
I think if they had done server merges instead, they could have let the characters with more play time logged keep their name. That would have been the most fair thing. But they can't really do that with transfers.

I'm expecting to lose one or two of my character names whenever I get to transfer, but I think most of my other ones are pretty original. I plan on just using the funny versions of letters to basically keep all my names, if I have to.

But I do agree with everyone that part of the awesomeness of early access was being able to reserve all the names. So losing those is a fail on Bioware's part. At the very least, I think they should have let the transfers keep their names if the people on the destination server didn't have an active subscription.
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Erasimus
06.14.2012 , 10:46 AM | #188
I lost 1 out of 8 going from Dark Reaper to Bastion.

But I really didn't lose any. I know not everyone likes special characters but hey, Pris and Prís, aren't really all that different and typing special characters is very simple. Having an accent or whatever on one vowel shouldn't be a game breaker if you really want to keep the name.
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Ngamok
06.14.2012 , 10:57 AM | #189
Quote: Originally Posted by Drudenfusz View Post
Two... sadly the one still in my signature was one of them... and now I consider not continuing my sub. The other name I had to change had a funny surprise for me, I got the name on the new server which I couldn't get on my old server for that character... but that was anyway just an alt.
Lana is a pretty common name.
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AdamLKvist
06.14.2012 , 11:10 AM | #190
Lost 6 out of 8...
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