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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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tausser
06.16.2012 , 08:48 AM | #361
I got to keep my Legacy name unchanged and, of the 4 toons I moved, 2 survived intact, had to add 1 letter to the 3rd one and change 1 letter of the 4th one so not too bad overall.

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Kaphik
06.16.2012 , 08:48 AM | #362
Only two, and I liked them. But that's how it is I guess.

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Nataenelas
06.16.2012 , 08:54 AM | #363
5 out of 7 character names. My Legacy was unclaimed on the destination server, so I guess there's that silver lining.

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geekjosh
06.16.2012 , 04:43 PM | #364
None, all 4 of my character's names were unclaimed on my new server. I did have to change my Legacy name though. It was named after a character in Mass Effect, but surprisingly I renamed it to another name from the Mass Effect universe (one that was WAY more well known) and it wasn't taken. So I was pretty lucky.

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Boredmuse
06.16.2012 , 05:37 PM | #365
I lost 2 names, and my legacy name. People can say it is petty, but that was the last straw for me.

I have followed this game since its announcement, and played since beta. I was a rabid fanboy with deep faith in bioware, "there is a reason they are doing this or that", faith. I just cant do it anymore.

This game had so much potential, and has been such a let down with the horrible management. Anybody who thinks they haven't been paying to play a beta the last 6 months is in denial, like I was until shortly.

The fact that they did "free transfers" instead of mergers was all a PR stunt. They did mergers, just masked as transfers, and in the process screwed day 1 people out of names and legacy. You know, legacy, the thing that is SO important in this game.

I think (my opinion, no data to back it up) that people are going to be in for a rude awakening soon. Many of the claims of how many people play this game are based on people like me that have cancelled but have 2 months left on their sub, like half of my guild. In a few months there will not be many left, I think.

I hope the game stays open for those that enjoy it, I truly do. But I can not put up with biowares horrible mismanagement of this game any longer. I had so much hope too.

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SlimsPicken
06.16.2012 , 06:14 PM | #366
Quote: Originally Posted by islander View Post
Who is Silky Johnson and why should we care?

I'm going to go log into my active server now, yay!
Silky Johnson is someone who is not a total and complete cigarette. therefore someone like you probably wouldnt know them.
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RaithHarth
06.16.2012 , 07:57 PM | #367
Quote: Originally Posted by Boredmuse View Post
I lost 2 names, and my legacy name. People can say it is petty, but that was the last straw for me.

I have followed this game since its announcement, and played since beta. I was a rabid fanboy with deep faith in bioware, "there is a reason they are doing this or that", faith. I just cant do it anymore.

This game had so much potential, and has been such a let down with the horrible management. Anybody who thinks they haven't been paying to play a beta the last 6 months is in denial, like I was until shortly.

The fact that they did "free transfers" instead of mergers was all a PR stunt. They did mergers, just masked as transfers, and in the process screwed day 1 people out of names and legacy. You know, legacy, the thing that is SO important in this game.

I think (my opinion, no data to back it up) that people are going to be in for a rude awakening soon. Many of the claims of how many people play this game are based on people like me that have cancelled but have 2 months left on their sub, like half of my guild. In a few months there will not be many left, I think.

I hope the game stays open for those that enjoy it, I truly do. But I can not put up with biowares horrible mismanagement of this game any longer. I had so much hope too.
Bioware needs to deal with this problem asap it is a major obsticle especially when you been forced to change your username and legacy names if they were already taken, that is unacceptable.

They should start introducing multiple names per server, or at least let us pay for the usernames/legacy names we want to use.
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THERachmaninoff
06.16.2012 , 08:28 PM | #368
MY characters names were some of the most important things to me...They were something I had chosen before I even got the game...now they're all gone, legacy and all. Ive been here since beta, since the beginning with those characters and names.

You say that it was aforementioned about the possibility of loosing your names. Well that's just great...I love staying on my 0 population server and playing by myself too........morons.

I hate you bioware...you make me sad because you fail at making an MMO...GET YOUR S H I TTTT TOGETHER!!!!!

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Boaz
06.16.2012 , 08:33 PM | #369
Quote: Originally Posted by Boredmuse View Post
This game had so much potential, and has been such a let down with the horrible management. Anybody who thinks they haven't been paying to play a beta the last 6 months is in denial, like I was until shortly.

The fact that they did "free transfers" instead of mergers was all a PR stunt. They did mergers, just masked as transfers, and in the process screwed day 1 people out of names and legacy. You know, legacy, the thing that is SO important in this game.
I will not voluntary go some place and hope I can keep a name I have been using since launch. Like many others here, I have 2 months left will see when that time hits what’s what. For a game that was supposed to be all about “you” and staring “you” they failed miserably to maintain that in anything that even remotely feels or looks organized in any truly defendable way. It is not as if some of us rolled the dice and lost by picking the wrong server some of us where placed where we are and to have ignored that is in excusable.

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Enigmatikone
06.16.2012 , 09:04 PM | #370
A big reason why I preordered for early access was to get a chance to pick the names I wanted for my characters.
I can't believe that Bioware of all companies seems not to understand just how fundamentally important a character name is to an RPG player.