Screwed over by Bioware!

Now there's an actual helpful suggestion. Thank you. I might just do that.

seems this maybe the correct address, apoligies

swtoraccountdisputes@bioware.com

I actually doubt that when you call the traditional route of creating "real" names for characters a "new fangled hippy thing" and when your character list looks like words picked randomly out of a Thesaurus.

you know that old line "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet"? There's alot to that, and again I have trouble really buying into this idea that the only "identity" you can provide your characters is by a name that was spawned from the dictionary. With all of the plotlines, the nuances, and everything that tries to immerse yourself in a Star Wars Universe, the part that connects you is with names that have absolutly no part in the franchise?

I'm not calling you a liar, but that sounds incredibly hard to believe.

An interesting theme came up in this topic. It looks like corporations somehow have more rights to dictionary words, even if individuals have been using that word earlier.

This is just one aspect of how messed-up the copyright and trademark laws have become.

For another example, check out despair.com - the home of Demotivators (TM). They actually hold trademark rights to the frown smiley :-( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Despair,_Inc.

Regardless of how I feel about the OP's list of names, I dislike how invasive trademarks are!

I was frustrated too when having to transfer from Grand Master Zym to the Shadowlands; especially since i was in beta as well. The game said my name wasnt available when checking on the server it was, i.e. creating a level 1 character on both sides and seeing if i could add myself as friend and finding character doesnt exist. A bunch of people in my guild had the same issue and all of us either had to add or delete letters from our names just so we could have the names of the characters.

Wwwwwhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!

*sniffle snort*

Wwwwwwhhhhahaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!

Seriously kid, get over it. Go into Microsoft Word, and type your name, then go to "Insert Symbol", and find one that looks cool / looks like the letter you want to swap. Then ctrl+c it, go into char creation, and ctrl+v it. If it's an allowable symbol, it'll go into the name box. If not, try again!

If I were your father I would have smacked your whiny little mouth by now. Time to grow up and face some actual tough situations. You will live kid. Everything will be fine.

This "situation" of yours, it sucks, but that's it. It just sucks. Nothing more than that. Suck up the suck, and move on with your life.

"But I want what I want! And I want it now! And I think that I paid for it! So give it to me!!!!!!"

This thread is too funny, and the OP is very childish......you lost your PRIZED names, who cares, most of us have lost names during the mergers. Yep I lost my main to a level 2 inactive account, that to this day is still inactive. Do I still have the name Yep, just added an alt character and now good to go. I got mad when someone reported the name of my female powertech " Bøøbie'fettish" and had to change that one after the second server merger, which I had since early access. Did I write a 20 paragraph post crying about it? I simply changed the name and moved on.

[rant] BTW the person who reported the name of my toon, you have no sense of humor, not once did anyone ever make a bad comment about that name. All I got was praise............[/rant]

Oh and I really wanted to join the guild "Jawas Strippers Union" with that toon too......

Some one please.... put this thread out of its misery. No offense OP.

I'm making this reply in hopes that the anyone at Bioware who reads your post will read it and realize that I'll be deliriously angry if they let you have a name that is very obviously a violation of the naming policy. I'd be equally angry if they change their policy for name collisions on server transfer.

See, one of the biggest problems I see in society today is that a few whiners are able to drive policy because no one is willing to stand up for the majority and say that the whiners are being stupid and that caving in to their selfishness will anger just as many people as ignoring them.

No. You don't get special treatment because you ordered the CE.
No. You don't get to force someone to change their character name because you chose to transfer to their server.
No. You don't get first crack at names during server consolidation just because you were squatting on names since early release.
No. You don't get to have a name that violates the naming rules.

You will be treated the same as everyone else, comply with the same rules, and get the same perks and nothing more. If Bioware would say that they made a mistake and restore that character's name, the first thing I'd do is make a character on that server and report your name.

Which of his names violated the policy? I'm genuinely curious...they all seemed rather inane to me.