Yes, that is the reason. I did not lose any of my toon names (and I would not have cared if I did), but I had a buddy who has had a name since day 1, he is a well respected guild leader and known well in the community. Due to the fact that the management panicked on early release and seemed to be unable to count (which created this issue), he now has to lose that name to a person on a new server who may have quit by now for all we know. He has to move his whole guid to a new sever, change his name and then reestablish all those relationships in his guild and with other guilds with a new name. He is not quiting, he is not even complaining, but it is making me mad as heck cause he is a nice guy and it was not an equitable way to make the changes. Instead of merging, they took the easy way out with transfer. They could have merged and then used a seniority system to decide name conflicts, but instead they did transfer so if there was a name conflict they can say, "You chose to move." That is totally wrong, if the whole server moves en masse as Kath Hound did, it is not a 'choice'. The choice is: move now and lose your name, or sit on a blank server for two months until we force merge, and then change. Warhammer Online had the same server population issues. They made these same mistakes there. EA wrecked Warhammer Online with bad management decisions and this is headed in the same direction. I see them making all the same mistakes.

While I agree mergers were needed, the fact that they let it get so bad and did not have a plan from the jump was a travesty based on how much money went into this game.

Big ole red: "The Login service is currently unavailable. Please visit the forums for the latest updates on the status of this service." where is the game....need to play....

Warhammer Online used targeted free voluntary transfers with xp bonuses and it was an absolute failure. What will you do to keep the same thing from happening with the resulting massive population loss? Will there be server mergers, or larger super servers in the future with instanced zones in the future?

They tried voluntary transfers on WAR and it jsut made matters worse, they even got to the point that they were giving people multiple weeks of double xp to get them to move and people would not move. It needs to be a merger for the sake of the servers. unfortunately, somehting like 80% of people only play 20% of a game before getting bored and quiting. 100%ers are rare and getting rarer. Also, the big issue is Legacy. i have a lvl 33 legacy on my dying server and i am not about voluntarily leave it.

I am in favor of forced server merge for the smallest servers (It is true this would cause name problems, but it is better than an abandoned server and solves the issue of transfering toons with Legacy Race). i am also in favor of cross server PvP, just because I like a sever with a smaller pop does not mean I should be forced to wait 20 mins for a PvP queu. As for the naming issue, I don't think it is much of an issue, considering I see people with names like Beukamonster and Sextpot, I am thinking name changes would be good for some folks. If your name is Blade and it means that much to you, you have some issues. Additionall, a solution to this issue that Champions online uses is the account @ name. this allows peope to use any character name, but the account name stays the same.

My Juggernaught is far more survivable now thn he was pre-1.2. I got my battlemaster gear after 1.2, and even pre gear i melted much less post 1.2 do to the new clickies and the rework of the tree.

Oh, now here comes the begining of the end of this game. Did anyone notice, the small addition to the sentence about the addition of "Combat Logs"? This will be the big WoW. They add combat log, then the parsing starts. Soon enough they have add ons and Recount. Please reconsider the combat log. It is so not needed and leads to "DON"T STAND IN BLUE FIRE, beware NINJAs, DPS DPS DPS DPS!!!" from WoW. It is anathema to the kind of atmosphere you have already built and should be developing.

Fett's Vette - MC Chris Best song evah!

Which is why playing a low level BH in PvP means you take these moves in the face alot. lol

Oh, and by the way, Star Trek Online has Dabo tables in qurks bar and yes, it can be played competitively for creidts. They even have a DABO! Emote for when someone scores.

Playing an imaginary card game in a vidoe game with imaginary money is NOT gambling. If this is true then Milton Bradley needs to be busted by the Bunko squad for Monopoly.

/sign - Not sure why a Pazzak minigame was not in this game at launch given that it was prominent in the story line of KOTOR II with Atton. We need Pazzak, heck i just want the minigame so I cna play Pazzak, im not even looking for any complicated system.

Yeah, definitely have to agree with those who shelved the proton torpedoes. Several problems with them. First, the link to the same key as missiles is really bad design. Second, turrets which I used be able to destroy with guns and missles now REQUIRE a photon torpedoe. This is just goofy, there is no benefit to using something that restricts you and offers no reward that I can see. Third, they are so distracting that they actually make a challenging and fun mission just plain irritating.

I have a level 50 and I have watched every cut scene. if you don't like cut scenes go play something else.

Well said OP.

Until they tire themselves out and head back to WoW, yes.

Yup. I don't expect to get it, but yeah i would like that.

I don't want my game turned into "Excel the MMO." I would prefer it if no one saw any numbers ever.

I have said it before and I will say it again. Mods and macros wreck games. No mods/no macros.

Actually, in PR terms you assume 50 for every complaint. So 1000 people posting complaints means 50k unhappy. Not saying that that many people are complaining, just that is the PR logic.

My inbox is lonely it says this: Wow, you've got a very clean inbox! (Did you know you can receive messages from other email accounts?)

Go further back in the thread. A poster said that in the store where they purchased the game it said on a sign, "Pre-order now. Play December 15th." This indicatees that if you preordered at that moment you were garaunteed to play the 15th.

That.

Yes, but that store had no right to say the 15th, up to 5 days is not "play the 15th".