See what I don't understand, what was the point of the "mergers", too many low populated servers and what not? Well, you should've figured something out when you lost that crap load of players early on. I don't exactly like the fact that the initial launch of an MMO is mainly for names, friends, race to level cap and everyone who has unique and original names (not like myself) are basically getting tossed in the dirt. No, you won't delete characters, you'll auto-transfer them with names of "FLVNDSVMNQALJ" and make them rename. Hey, spit more in their faces because you made too many servers at the initial launch. I'm sure BW calculated from pre-orders and such on what they could make, but come on.. There was what, 15 PVP / RP / RP-PVE, and 9 PVE servers at launch? Seems a little silly to me. These "Founders" in my opinion deserve to have names they used. Considering TOR is all about character attachment, a lot of players are going to be unhappy with the 'Force' migration, and now basically having characters they don't want. Keep your Origin servers, transfer them to another location, or something. Let those people who actually were there, waiting 48+ hours for their Early Access invites, keep their names. Regardless how many updates you try and rush to compensate, or how many rewards you give, you will have unhappy players due to that basic element. Figure out a way to bring all those people that once left, back into the game and save the servers. It's the people that pay for these after all, not BW anymore. I feel for all the people that get frustrated when things like this happen. And unfortunately TOR isn't like WoW where character names DON'T matter. As an RP'ers main concern is a character name, followed by actual RP. I simply just do not think it is fair what has been done. It wasn't fair that people lost hope in TOR within the first few months, but it sure as heck isn't fair to rub dirt in the loyal players' faces because of it.

Only problem I have with these 'waves' is the fight for names. I'll be honest, I want my real name as a character name and I'm sure I won't have it now that there's already two waves of players scattered and taking any 'popular' name possible. Maybe I'll get mine. I think this was a good idea as far as server stability. But no brownie points for the way it's handled. I'll keep my fingers crossed, and honestly this is about the ONLY thing that's not exactly awesome about the game. Everything else is outstanding. I wish this would've been handled with a little more sympathy.