So, How Many Names Did You Lose?

Didn't lose any, and legacy name was still available.
Tbh, I was surprised. :P

Agreed. I loved bioware. I have never seen a company seemingly work so hard to alienate players.

I lost my main char name which has about 30 days invested playtime to a lvl14 char. Lost one alt name too.

The real thing about this whole char renaming issue is not the fact that you had to rename some or all of your chars, its another thing which in fact makes me really upset.

This "free char transfer" service is de iure (legally) a voluntary service, but de facto (effectively) a mandatory thing. Mandatory because you couldnt play the game in a proper way even before the transfers (due to messed up management decisions by BW), but after the transfers there definitely is no way to play this MMO as a massively multiplayer game on an abandoned server. So if you think of this whole transfer as a mandatory service where in fact some kind of super servers are created, then this "free char transfer" service is effectively a SERVER MERGE.

Now the problem with letting this be named a char transfer service by the PR department caused a much bigger issue than just trying to deceive the community, it in fact led to it that BW - at least from a legal pov - had not to implement a char renaming policy because "its a player's free decision to transfer and lose his beloved name". Under renaming policy i mean some simple rules which ensure that someone with over 1 month playtime on a char doesnt have to lose his name because of another char with some hours of playtime or even a totally abandoned 5-6th alt char of someone, which is just not fair.

If this had been called a SERVER MERGE service, than there would have been no way to avoid the implementation of a renaming policy.

So for me thats the real issue about this whole renaming debate. I personally am deeply frustrated and disappointed by the way BW handled this whole issue with a simple "first come first serve" rule. This would be fine if this whole transfer thing wouldnt have been mandatory (de facto)... BW could have made this work, but they decided to not care about names, in a game where its all about "personal" story and becoming attached to your char...

I probably cancel my sub and look for another game which hopefully honors day 1 players more than BW does. Cancel not only due to the above issue but because of the way BW and their PR department try to sell us for fools for over 5 months.

I lost all 5 names, and my legacy name. The wife lost all her names and her legacy name. I would dearly love to find the person who grabbed those names. I had them reserved on jedi thinking we were going there only to get surprised and got moved over to another server. Oh well such is life.

Lost 5 of 8 names including main but kept my legacy name.

*sniff*

Well, I lost one. I guess Woo could be considered common. Thank goodness for Wòo.

30+ pages and no SirCopperfield yet... Could he have possilbly grew up?

Oooh! Update! Not only did I lose ALL my names, but I lost ALL my names to level one placeholders! Awesome!

/facepalm
Wait, and you were so attached to Woo so you needed to create a rip off name with a weird altcode??
Unbelievable... perhaps you can meet the original Woo in a warzone and fight it out..

lost EVERY name i had and to top it off when you go to rename a char it prompts the new name to the TOP un-named toon on your list rather than the one you thought you were just logging in/renaming, which renames the wrong toon the name you were using ! VERY POORLY done !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i had to delete a couple toons cos i didnt want them to have the name i just tried to give to a diff toon...total BS !
im not stoked about this at all