Guys, I have to admit...I'm SERIOUSLY upset. It takes a lot to get me annoyed when gaming, but the fact that we were offered free transfers and so many people, including my guilds, have left my server encouraged me to change servers. To my dismay, I can't keep my character names.
In a story driven MMO, character names are a part of that. Their represent identity. 6 of the 7 characters I transferred over, now need renaming, including my main and my main alt.
Let me talk about story-telling and film for a minute, since that is the world I work in. In writing and filming when you are telling a story, you try for an essence of continuity and connectedness, otherwise readers / audience members don't care about what you're talking about, it pulls them out of the experience. You DON'T change character's names in the midst of a story being told about them.
I would have thought you guys would have devised some way of being able to keep those names given the Legacy system, but I was wrong.
Well, it makes me sad, but yes, once this session is up, I don't think I'll be playing any longer.
Thanks.