Character Name Purge with Folks not Playing Anymore

I *COMPLETELY* support this topic!!!

As someone who pre-ordered the CE for Early-Access to reserve my name, I find it absolutely horrendous that I was forced out of my name. In all the time I've been online, I've not seen the person who took the name "Terin" online... EVER!!! Someone snatched the name, quit playing, and has never returned.

If the person was still playing, that would obviously be a completely different matter. However, it's simply not right for someone to be forced out of their name by someone who doesn't even play the game!

definitely want this. server xfers screwed me on every single character name I had. Many of the players havent even logged in! there is a lvl 43 character with my name that has never logged on for me to beg for the name.....please BW I want my names back!

No, what was not appropriate was having no system to reward the loyal players with our own names in server merges. Based on personal experience I lost 80% of my names when that happened and many in my guild had the same situation. The fact that they don't wipe inactive names ever is laughably bad.

That person likely hasn't played since Christmas vacation 2011. Help us out here Bioware, you're our only hope.

i just want my names back

Well, that's not going to happen as originally legacy names were unique but they ended up changing that with the server merges. So I doubt that they will change that back. They really screwed the pooch with that one though. Having non-unique character names and unique legacy names would have been the way to go. Unique first names and non-unique last names makes no sense whatsoever except that they were stuck with duplicate legacy names with the forced server merges and, apparently, they figured that was the path of least resistance. Seems a little silly that there can only be one Luke on a server but hundreds of Skywalker legacies.

I completely agree that the existing structure just doesn't make a whole lot of sense. It "works", sure, but not terribly well. By making Legacy-names unique, and allow Character-names to overlap, it would just solve a *LOT* of issues; in fact, practically all of them.

In any case, it's definitely messed-up how things turned out. Of course, I definitely tip my hat to BioWare's recent efforts, as we're definitely seeing some nice quality-of-life changes. Hopefully this is something they'll be able to consider working out in the coming months.

Oh.. I'm absolutely positive that all lost character names are somehow on inactive characters, just waiting to be wiped so people can get their favorite names back. Yep yep.. definitely.

LOLZ

/end sarcasm.

Next time.. pick more unique names.. names not attempted by 20,000 people per name, names like Fred, and Ricky, and Pwnzer. Instead, pick names that are pretty unique, that you like, that you can use over and over again on different servers and even different MMOs with little chance of said name being taken....EVER.

I just want the name, Andryah.

I do not support this.

Take for instance in WoW, which I haven't played for 4 years, I can re-sub and log in and I know I will still have my name on all my characters. it's something that should stay in the nether forever, or until they close the game down.