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THEY.STOLE.MY.NAME! *mad*
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Oh heck I do!
I returned at least a while to almost all games! I returned many times to EQ2, LOTRO and even games like Vanguard, Warhammer, AoC, CoH, CO, STO... heck all mayor titles. I park my chars and return often for big patches or expansions, and I would be royally pissed knowing they mistreat my chars I put so much work, and usually worked to max level at the time being. If I play a char to max level and am out of content, I think it is my right to keep that name.
I just checked. My lost name chars are level 50, 50, 42, 37 and 24 and the other people who "took" my names are level 1-10 all of them. Sorry but I think my first come and my hard work gives me the higher right. I mean, heck, I have TWO max level chars who were created on day one, which had to drop their name for some level 3 chars!
I mean, if I lost the name for some low level char, fine. But two max level chars I REALLY put lotsa work into, and I lose them for some level 3 toon who prolly isn't even played anymore. Thats just absurd.
Sidenote: I kept playing SWTOR because it was Star Wars. Yeah I am that sort of superfan. And it is NOT all bad. I had fun those 2 class stories through. But I can see what is good even when I critizise other stuff, no?
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"Anger is never dishonest."
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People don't ask questions to get answers - they ask questions to show how smart they are. - Dogbert
When you're angry about other people stealing your names (or getting them instead of you), it's not actually a good idea to openly list them all in a very public forum. Just sayin'
That said, I can relate in a big way. I lost all my names in EQ which I had since 99/00 during the last merge. Was my fault for not playing at the time.. But wow.. That was a big punch to the gut for me. Included was the very first character I ever created in any MMO. That name is gone forever like the others (in EQ).
Haven't played since.. Not saying that's the only reason.. But I couldn't honestly tell you whether it is or not.
in short, bummer dude. I've been there.
This is one thing I'm worried about returning too. I've been gone for quite awhile.
My server is on the "origin" list. If I come back in a few months from now, my server is going to be absolutely dead and I'll have to PAY for transfers.
Assuming they merge servers with the destination server, I'll have to change my names(legacy and character names) that I've had since pre-release. These are MY names that I'VE had since before the game was even released, why should I have to give them up to someone who started a week ago because bioware couldn't properly manage the game..
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BioWare screwed up by making a double unique naming system.
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I haven't played SWTOR in a pretty long while, but my friend told me to transfer my characters. I checked to see if I could without resubbing, and I could. Do you have to rename your character when you log in, or do your names transfer unless someone has taken it? I have no plans to go back anytime soon, but just curious for if I do.
Wow that totally sucks. Another hidden causalty of SWTOR Fail.....
So you say the oldest name should get priority, i get that... but how do you know it didnt?
Akim isnt exactly a unique name and just how many people reserved names early from all the 100's of server which are now (i think) 18 or however many it is, who is to say 1 of them didnt reserve akim before you?
This is quite a big thing where SWTOR is concerned, where its main concern is around creating alts and the Legacy.
The only backup plan for these things, is to try and have backup names, but when your main is taken, it still sucks.
There is no chance of losing your names in STO, and when EQ2 merged servers the ones who played the longest kept their names. I did not play a character in EQ2 much, and when the servers merged and charcaters moved into the server I was on, I had to change my name, as the other person who was moving in was more active than I was, which is fair enough. SWG still had similar problems but you could choose a few more servers, and one may have been OK.
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Thankfully Anet had this problem solved back in 2005. 1 Game, 1 Database in GW1. The same system is being used in GW2 Eventhough there are multiple servers there is only 1 Database. Meaning if server mergers are needed no one will lose their names.
Downside of course being that virtually all popular names are unavailable.
Well I'm going to agree with you, when doing server merges the question comes down to what is the proper algorithim to use in deciding who gets to keep their name.
Looks like they took the easy route (no surprise) and decided that the destination server character takes precedence over incoming characters. Like you, i don't agree, especially when as you pointed out, your characters are more mature.
I'm sure they were thinking that since the moves were voluntary, it was your choice to do so. Of course there was no way for you to know when you moved that the names were taken.
Screwy all the way around, and no matter which way they went, were bound to piss off someone. In your case it looks like perhaps your names were taken by largely inactive characters, but I know that if I was actively playing a character and the Dev's took my name away because some transfer character was older or whatever I'd be just as pissed and even more likely to unsub since I didn't do anything.
From their viewpoint, I'm sure they are thinking "its just a name" and not really appreciating how attached players can get to their identity in a MMORPG.
But then all along they've shown they don't really understand what makes a good MMORPG, and why their title is perceived more as just another game.
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this still goin on lol, my adivce.. get over it man, it happens to every 1 at some point.
There is a simple, correct answer to that: everyone gets to keep his character names. If your system doesn't allow that, you're doing it wrong.
I fail to see how that is a bad thing. Sorry I don't care to run into a million legolasses and such.
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You have to be careful with those aphorism quotes, there's always an opposite one. And in the case of SWTOR, a particularly appropriate one (all that bottled up anger and the crusades that never, ever end).
Self-pity imprisons us in the walls of our own self-absorption. The whole world shrinks down to the size of our problem, and the more we dwell on it, the smaller we are and the larger the problem seems to grow.
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Self-pity imprisons us in the walls of our own self-absorption. The whole world shrinks down to the size of our problem, and the more we dwell on it, the smaller we are and the larger the problem seems to grow.
LOL come on, you know how much fun it is to run into "Ender" in EVE, must be at least 5K of them.
EVE uses a first name, last name system, so while there can be only one Ender (no last name) there are 4,999 out there with a last name as well.
And as was mentiioned, if the game design doesn't account for this, they were doing it wrong in the first place, especially in this day and age when Dev's know server mergers are part of the planned product lifecycle.
But as I said, it was pretty clear Bioware really didn't know what they were doing.
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You either want to understand me or you want to ridicule me. It is clear to me you just want to attack me.
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All good lines that are very appropriate.
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Actually, I was just responding to your aphorism in kind. Does the tinfoil warm up at times?
Ktanner, this is all your bloody fault, if you didn't quote it a page back, I might never even have noticed it.
Self-pity imprisons us in the walls of our own self-absorption. The whole world shrinks down to the size of our problem, and the more we dwell on it, the smaller we are and the larger the problem seems to grow.