So, How Many Names Did You Lose?

The best part of losing my name and legacy is that the doosh who has it is lvl 17 and hasnt logged in once since the transfers. So they dont even want or need the name, since they probably quit 4 months ago.

Meanwhile my legacy lvl 42 account gets to rename everything and get completely lost in the shuffle of transfer so no one who knew me ever will know me now.

Plus I basically have to leave two imperial lvl 50s behind on my old server, since the reroll server has 2 of my republic toons on it... and apparently we need those for the HK pet (wont matter anyways since I likely wont be here for 1.3...but still)

Just a really horribly planned out transfer overall.

To balance my vitriol, I will comment that the actual transfer service is smooth as silk, and was completed very quickly and with no problems- aside from losing the most important aspect of my gaming- my names, but that was Biowares lack of planning not an issue of the actual move of data.

overall having a full server took some sting away, but doesnt make up for the loss of identity, and frankly, the undelivered promise of legacy and story meaning anything in the game.

How do you know if he has logged in or not? Anyways, for all you know the name could belong to a soldier on a 3 month deployment with no internet access, and plans on coming back to play the game when he gets back. Do you really want to take his name away? The are many good reasons for people to be away from the game temporarily, and Bioware would have no idea who would be coming back and who would not be coming back.

The best part of losing my name and legacy is that the doosh who has it is lvl 17 and hasnt logged in once since the transfers. So they dont even want or need the name, since they probably quit 4 months ago.

Meanwhile my legacy lvl 42 account gets to rename everything and get completely lost in the shuffle of transfer so no one who knew me ever will know me now.

Plus I basically have to leave two imperial lvl 50s behind on my old server, since the reroll server has 2 of my republic toons on it... and apparently we need those for the HK pet (wont matter anyways since I likely wont be here for 1.3...but still)

Just a really horribly planned out transfer overall.

To balance my vitriol, I will comment that the actual transfer service is smooth as silk, and was completed very quickly and with no problems- aside from losing the most important aspect of my gaming- my names, but that was Biowares lack of planning not an issue of the actual move of data.

overall having a full server took some sting away, but doesnt make up for the loss of identity, and frankly, the undelivered promise of legacy and story meaning anything in the game.

Didn't lose any of my names/legacy.

But I'm not the sort to get over attached to an arbitrary string of characters attached to a digital avatar in a video game anyway, so it wouldn't have bothered me even if I did :P

People moaning about this stuff need some perspective.

Trust me when I tell you playing on a full server greatly outweighs having some 'cool' name. You can still have an awesome name, just make it a little funky. On my first server I had Grevious. Now I just have Grevous. No big deal. And if that was taken then I would have just used an alt letter. The game has been so much more enjoyable with other people to play with.

while in theory I agree, its the principle of the matter.

This is an issue caused 100% by Bioware, and thrust onto the players.