Screwed over by Bioware!

Allow me to set this thread back on a proper course now. As much as I'm ticked off by losing the name Bane, as I've pointed out myself, it's part of the SW lore and thereby I fully understand that it "shouldn't" be allowed. What made me angry was the way I lost it, and the fact that it was the very last of my original names. I wasn't asked or told to rename Bane, I got cheated out of it by Bioware's incompetent customer service representatives after they had already assured me that I could keep the name. This was just the last straw.

If Bioware had a proper system of priority in place by the time of the first merge, everyone who was on low-pop servers would have been given a fair chance to keep their names to this day. Like I said, if I had been stupid enough to stay on that tombstone of a server Bao-Dur, I would have been given a fair chance to keep my names during the second merge. But, since I had already renamed my characters by that time, I only had a chance of keeping names I didn't even want in the first place. And as I've also said, I'm far from being the only one that got "Screwed over by Bioware" when this crap when down.

So what do I want now? That's the question, right? The only thing Bioware could possibly do to rectify the situation and compensate me, would be to give me a fair chance to get back my original names. And I want them to give that same opportunity to everyone who was on low-pop servers who lost their original names when Bioware forced us to leave our original servers. You could argue that they didn't force us, but that simply won't fly. We were given the opportunity to stay on dead servers or move to a new server that somewhat resembled an MMO environment. I had a guild to consider, so I didn't have the luxury of staying, not that I would have stayed anyway seing as everyone else left! I'm not seeking sympathy or looking for a handout in cartel coins or free game time from Bioware, I want them to do the right thing. This is a matter of principles and nothing else. Do I really expect Bioware to listen to me and change anything? Of course not, and that's why this riff is on the official forums and not in their mail-box.

I don't even know what that means, man.

Ouch, that sucks. But to be honest, some names are just going to be taken by default- why not try making more original names without resorting to punctuation stew or apostrophes?

I find it epically hilarious that you are willing to write out multiple "War & Peace" threads over your character names.

Go outside, NAO.

AMG, blablabla, not original, bla. I'm sorry, I don't mean to be offensive here, but this name crap is so last page. I'll take part of the blame on me since I obviously should have explained things a lot better and in deeper detail in the original post. I already said I'm not a new-age, neo-hippie, l33t-geek cyberwizard-warrior. I don't need my character names to be original. I got Hoodling from being original, which is mix of a Hoodlum and a Gibberling. I'd hardly say Hoodling got anything on REAPER-ER-ER-ERRRH! Nor does any other new-age, neo-hippie, l33t-geek cyberwizard-warrior name.

This isn't about whether or not I'd ACTUALLY GET TO KEEP those names. I wasn't even given a fair chance to keep them because there was no priority system in place. It was just a complete panick-attack by Bioware when they realized their servers were all ghost-towns, man! Come on!

I've been a very active player! I've been actively subscribing since launch and I had something like 4 level 50 characters at the time of the first transfer. I was doing dailies on 2-3 toons a day and raiding up to 7 days a week on my main. Even on a per-character-basis I would have had enough time logged in on each and every one of them to get to keep at the very least ONE of those names. I have zero doubt about that. But even if I didn't get to keep any of the names, at least I would take solace in the fact that I got a fair chance just like the people who were originally on the last 2 servers (The Red Eclipse and Nightmare Lands).

and nobody's gonna come up in here and tell me those names aren't popular, and awesome and... ehm...

I'm quite confused by this. You know full well that it's against the policy to have the name, but you want them to let you have it anyway?
Do you realize how illogical that sounds, and thusly why it won't happen?

Everyone did have a fair chance. It didn't matter what version of the game you bought. It didn't matter if you had early access or started the game a week before. It didn't matter what level the character was or how many you moved. The people who didn't transfer didn't have to change their name. If you did choose to change, you ran the risk.

As I pointed out before. You're not really interested in what is fair. You're only interested in what benefits you.


I'm an existentialist by nature. Everything, including wether you live or not, is a matter and a result of choice.

You do understand that only one person who got funnelled into the servers is going to be able to get your wish, correct?

I quite fail to see your point. You know Bioware won't do anything, so you post here, even though you don't care what anyone has to say about it.
I'm sure there's a whole crap-ton of people

Erm, didn't you hear several dozen people telling you just that?

I call troll. If it's not trolling on purpose, stay awesome and... ehm.