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So, How Many Names Did You Lose?

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So, How Many Names Did You Lose?

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tehjai
06.14.2012 , 11:19 AM | #191
Lost one of five -- luckily the character I just started levelling in earnest and *just* started thinking about in terms of RP (so it was a good time to have to change her name); retained Legacy surname.
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dipstik
06.14.2012 , 11:26 AM | #192
i lost all my names save for one.

bastila is now bastilia
adas is now addas
mission is now spryly
i dont rememeber what carth;s new name is
got to keep casey-hudson
lost the shan legacy, now have the skywalkęr legacy


im super ticked off. this is my first and last mmo. had no idea it was normal to lose all your names after playing since launch.

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dipstik
06.14.2012 , 11:32 AM | #193
Quote: Originally Posted by RaithHarth View Post
If your unhappy with losing your name, feel free to add your suggestions here
i would much rather send hate mail to the people responcible...

got an email address?

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JWagner
06.14.2012 , 11:33 AM | #194
If I transfer, all my names are still available on the server I'd be stuck going to.
Luckily, my other legacy is on a server that is the destination server, so I'm good in either case.

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Izorii
06.14.2012 , 11:46 AM | #195
I lost 2 names and a legacy name
Infact the only names I kept were random generated ones I got from the name creator.

For the record I am a little bitter about losing my legacy name and character names.

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Darth_Tofu
06.14.2012 , 12:28 PM | #196
I lost my legacy name. I didn't do beta, test server, early release, and bust my butt to lose my legacy.

I have only transferred one character, but i am very very angry about losing my legacy. I don't think it's fair, and i don't see any valid reason to only allow one of the same legacy name on a server. Especially since it wasn't even my fault. My fleet had 2 people in it last night before i transferred. That's not my fault.

I am not excited to see how many of my alts lose their names as well.

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havok_bloodcraft
06.14.2012 , 12:39 PM | #197
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. "
this ^

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JetAlmeara
06.14.2012 , 12:44 PM | #198
Quote: Originally Posted by Masqe View Post
I specificly logged in on the first moment of day 1 early start to make sure I got all the names I wanted, and was lucky enough to level and get the legacy name. Now your telling me too bad? I'm pissed. My remaining choices are stay on an empty server to keep the names I want or choose new names. It feels like the NGE all over again
This ^
Looking at my server I see 5 people on the fleet now..5 WTH. SO my guild either stays and lives in a ghost town which will close and force us to transfer anyways..or we loose our names,our legacy names, our guild name ..pretty much everything because Bioware arbitrarily choose some other server to jam everyone into. This sucks and I am bitter actually. Quite bitter.

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runback
06.14.2012 , 12:58 PM | #199
This whole situation was handled so very poorly. These are "Transfers", but lets call them what they really are....mergers.

Destination server players should not be spared just for being lucky enough to be on that chosen server. The names should have gone to the person who

A. Had the name/character created earliest...or
B. Logged the most time with said name...

Any name belonging to an unsubbed account would be automatically forfeited if a subbed player came to the server.

At the very least, everyone would have had a fighting chance. Its absolute BS that I lost all my names through no fault of my own and without any hope of retaining them. I have a backup list of names I created which I will try to get, but will probably fail. So I fully expect to cancel my sub tonight when i get home and fail to get a name other than Ramdonsdfsol.

I never experience the NGE, but now I have a little taste of how people felt.

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islander
06.14.2012 , 12:59 PM | #200
Zero

Pick original names next time
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