Renaming my character

[war1023]

I know what what most of you are going to say. This is messed up that I have to rename my character. 2 servers I was on The Fatman and Prophecy of Five were merged. I was on Port Nowhere and did the server transfer to Prophecy of the Five. Didn't lose 1 name. Today they merged The Fatman and Prophecy of Five. I lost a name I held on both servers. How the F do you tell me I lose my name when I already had it on Prophecy of the Five and The Fatman. Its not I have to change one of them like the other 7. I have completely lost the name.

[war1023]

http://www.swtor.com/community/showt...43#post5170943

Originally Posted by JovethGonzalez When naming conflicts occur due to the consolidation, players are given priority based on a variety of factors such as character play time and if they have already had to rename their characters as part of the first character transfer program back in June. Please do keep in mind that this does not encompass all of the factors taken into consideration, but those are an example of the major ones.


BS I just got off the phone with CS, about canceling my account and refunding my sub. They told me it was random on who got to keep their. Someone in CS is lieing to us. Nice job BW, can't even keep the facts straight.

[SoulBender]

Hey pal.... I thought you quit? Hope your back playing. SoulSage is almost a full grown chick, level 48.

[war1023]

Nope I canceled my account and got my last sub refunded. Since I do 6 month sub, when I quit playing I still have an active account. I talk to couple of my friends that use to play and they are coming back for F2P well they play WoW. Been logging in messing around. When I was at work today and found out that the 2 server I played on. Rep server with all my friends and Imp server with all my unlocks were merging together. I was happy till I came home and found out that I lost my name that I held on both server. When talking to CS on the phone and hearing it was random who got to keep the name I told them they can't take their mega server turn side ways and shove it up their ... till it comes out their mouth.


Sad thing is I'm so pissed off at BW because it was random who got the name that I'm thinking about going back to wow to play with my friends. Been playing with these guys for 5yrs and was happy they were coming back to SWTOR. It would have been a blast smashing FP to regear them all out.

[Jetsu]

If even a moderately sized part of a games entertainment value is what your character is named it's not a very good game. If it's not, then why quit when the only thing that's changed is your character's name?

I realize the emotional side of us always wants revenge when we feel slighted but to me it seems like people are making a mountain out of a mole hill. If, however, a large portion of your enjoyment was just your character name, I don't blame you for quitting. Almost every game out there offers character naming, and most single player games don't even have naming contention issues.

[SoulBender]

Jetsu,
You are a scholar.

[Count Sacula]

Hey War it could be worse. This guy was saying his guild on the destination server was forced to change their name because they gave it to an incoming guild...

I am the leader of a guild that has been located on a destination server since long before this new server merger, and BW has allowed another guild from an origin server to come and take our name that we had. (So now we're ________ @ The Ebon Hawk!) When reading through the FAQ about the mergers, I didn't recall any warning about something like this happening to those located on destination servers--please tell me if I'm wrong. Why should I have to come up with a new name for my guild when we were on this server first? Our name was something that described us to a tee, and we've been around since March-April-ish. We started on The Ebon Hawk.

[war1023]

Some people understand and some people won't.

If you have no problem with changing your name that fine. I've had both character made in early access, bought CE. My account has never been inactive, since i buy 6 months sub at time. Even when I been pissed at BW never took to forums and bashed them. Count mostly likely called me a Bio drone there too. I lose my name to someone else?

The reason they listed on the forums about who got the names are a complete lie. When I talked to CS on the phone they told me it was random. CS is BS people.

If your happy keep playing, I'm not and got my sub back.

[war1023]

Count I held the name on 2 server one being merged The Fatman and the one I was going to Proficiency of the Five lost it to another player merging.

[SoulBender]

Hey War it could be worse. This guy was saying his guild on the destination server was forced to change their name because they gave it to an incoming guild...

They are all new servers, just happen to have the same name. They should have used new names to eliminate that confusion, but then that would have caused even more issues I'm sure.

The reason they listed on the forums about who got the names are a complete lie. When I talked to CS on the phone they told me it was random. CS is BS people.

Could be that CS lied... honestly will never know. There are obviously still communication issues between the designers, coders and CS.

[RedDeath]

Sorry but quitting the game became you lost your name is lame

[Count Sacula]

Sorry but quitting the game became you lost your name is lame

Wow what kind of poem is that? Game, name and lame.

[t3po]

It seems that when I logged in I found 3 of my names were taken (one by me, a little irony). What is upsetting is that the name of our guild had to be changed, because no one wanted the @ Jedi Covenant tagged on. Went to make the free name change and *poof* it was already taken. I guess I didn't move fast enough. Most of the players are veterans and after the initial shock, we settled down and picked out a new guild name. Took a bit to get a name that we could all agree on (of course it took an hour, so I think we just settled).

This reminded me of when Aion and DDO did some server clean-up. I got mad (to the point that had I wife aggro). I had to do some major thinking about what my new names were going to be. Let's face it, when we put as much time as we do on our characters, there is a certain amount of emotional attachment. It pissed me off then and it did last night when we lost our guild name, but even with that I still play for the enjoyment of the game.

[dodgerfn]

Maybe someone can explain this to me....why can't our toons have the same name as another? I mean, they changed the legacy where it is not unique, why not the first name?? I had to rename 6 of my 7 toons during the first merge, where I went from Naddist rebels to Prophecy of Five...so I feel your pain. I got lucky this go around and didn't have to again. But it just seems to me they could have multiple first names since we can now have multiple legacy names.....any idea why?

[Count Sacula]

Maybe someone can explain this to me....why can't our toons have the same name as another? I mean, they changed the legacy where it is not unique, why not the first name?? I had to rename 6 of my 7 toons during the first merge, where I went from Naddist rebels to Prophecy of Five...so I feel your pain. I got lucky this go around and didn't have to again. But it just seems to me they could have multiple first names since we can now have multiple legacy names.....any idea why?

You have no idea how many people on the forums asked that same question.