I've noticed that too. It's kinda sad that they've gone from very helpful to almost ignoring players. A lot of people left WoW because they were sick of being left in the dark with legitimate question and even when you did get a response, they got a canned troll response(something like Soon TM) from the devs, instead of a proper answer. I will not give money to a company like that, neither will a lot of other people. How many more people have to leave before Bioware gets their act together again?

Glad to see that we CE holders are finally getting something good added for us. We've been shafted a bit on that promised additional stuff added to our vendor for months. Cannot wait for our goodies however late they are.

I think that may be exactly what they do, some of the servers anyways. The message on the origin servers changed again, it no longer says "you must move by the 30th or we will move you ourselves." The population may say light, but there is still a good amount of people playing on those who prefer light population for various reasons, and those who just didn't want to lose their names. I think BW's "bluff" was called on that move by the 30th message and when they saw little to no one was moving and with the population on the destination servers had gone down they pulled this card out to play. Sure they could move everyone who hadn't done so yet, and with people who had moved still leaving the game, they'd have another character name rampage from the people who didn't transfer on their own. I'd look for some, if not all the origin servers to be unlocked within the next month or two when the pay-to-win mode is live.

No, I imagine you don't care because you likely didn't lose any names, or at least to a level one that is never ever logged in. Try reading my post again. I never said anything about a character being deleted lol. Only that the name be freed up if the account it is on is not in use after several months. Many MMO's have a system where if an account is inactive after a set time, be it six months or a year, the names on that account can be made available to someone who is still playing, if that name is requested. If it is not ever requested, the name stays with that character. You're attitude sorta reminds me of the current state of players from that other game... even they will free up character names on inactive accounts after six months. We can agree to disagree and leave it at that. Again, what I asked is not at all unreasonable. Any MMO worth their salt has this policy, and an obligation to keep customers happy as much as possible. Some demand huge changes, others ask for simple things. Every hear the phrase " The Customer is always right"? If customers are unhappy, they will go some where else. I'm waiting to see what happens later. Time will tell if they can clear up/fix something as simple as I'm asking or not. If not,Well there are other MMO's who at least tell you what is going to happen later with an issue. What we all want right now is an answer of what is to come. That's it, because BioWare right now is doing the worst thing they could, and that is not respond.

Yep! you win the cookies

This was going to be mine, but someone got the name Control just before I did in EGA, a possibly inactive IA has it on my server. and the legacy name was also taken. Jedi Guardian: Master Control Program. Cookies if you get the reference. Darth Bazinga Sheldor The Conqueror Lord Stranger Danger Darth JharJhar B'inx Agent Orangee Slurpee Darth Tigersblood Winning <Twisted Sithsters> <Sith Happens> <Your Companion> <Our Companions Out DPS You> <I Sithed My Pants> <My Schwartz Is Bent> <Sith Bunnies> <Most Impressive>

I have to agree with this. They should leave a few of those light servers up. Any time, they could get a more subscribers. I have a few friends interesting in checking ToR out, but they're waiting till this transfer stuff is done before they join our community.

You're missing the point. I'm not asking BioWare to reset someone elses name that is still playing. I'm asking for a name to become available that is on an account that is not subbed at all. That is not at all unreasonable. I've go onto the destination servers, several names are held by level 1's. I've gone back a few times to see if they've logged in and they're not. So someone who played for their free month but never bothered with that alt and then let their time run out, should get to keep that name for good even if they don't come back? I see your point and I agree to an extent, but I don't think what I'm asking for is unreasonable at all.

People who have names on an inactive account shouldn't be able to keep the names, after a while anyways. If the player does not resub after a certain time frame (like how blizzard does it) the name should be able to become available to another player, they can then buy a name change.

I've used them going all the way back to UO, so no, I do not feel like losing them to a level 1 that is never logged in on the only destination server I was given as an option. I've checked the others, also held by level 1's. I've asked BioWare if they could reset the name on the inactive character and received a mostly canned response.

Strictly because I do not want to lose my character names.

This is also my main concern. My names, as dumb as it may sound to others, are the most important part of the game. I've been using them for years as others have used theirs for years who do not want to lose them. I will unsub if I lose them. I don't want to, but it just wouldn't be the same or as fun without them.

We may not get hosed (hopefully) If we do, I'm calling BioWare to hopefully get my names back, if not, it's unsub time for me.

How about some rewards for staying with your "home" server? Not everyone "abandoned ship". Also those who stayed in order not to lose our names, or put up with wait times would also like the same rewards for those who moved, if possible:jawa_smile: That little pet sure is cute.

This is it, exactly.

How about that, should I stay on Dreshdae Cantina, I better not lose my names to some level 1's on an inactive account lol I'd be on the phone to BioWare so fast, it' be a huge slap in the face. CE holder, active sub since EGA, never even been in any kind of trouble and still lose your name to a inactive level 1 account. How that would bite.

Yes and no, When I logged into Dreshdae Cantina, which is my main server, it was NOT locked, I switched characters and before I did that I checked the server list again, and it, along with others that were not locked before, had changed. It seems that the locked list is bugged a bit as standard servers were also listed as locked. I was also able to create a new character on a server I had not previously played on

I am also seeing this. I'm on Dreshdae Cantina, there are still a few people here, maybe around 20-30 (not giving up my names to low level characters on inactive accounts) The list seems to change which servers show up as locked each time I change characters though. Likely this is the first step towards shut down, and or some actual mergers. It will be interesting to watch what happens with this.

All of my names are taken by lowbie characters. I will not move to lose my names to characters that are likely on an inactive account when I've been keeping an active subscription since EGA and I still subbed into September. My names are not common at all, in many years of MMO's I have not seen anyone else with them, yet apparently someone had the same ideas. Great minds and all that. I have to salute them for thinking it up, but hey.. you're not using them, let me have them. I've checked by making an alt on Shadowlands and the highest was level 19. I've been checking regularly to see if I could catch the person(s) online to see if I could work something out to keep my names and so far in a week I haven't seen any of them on.

This is exactly what I have been telling BioWare since they announced transfers. Wait till after 1.3, if people still complain about not getting groups, then open up transfers.

What Beerbarron said. Come to the Dreshdae Cantina Open bar. Good food. Good friends. Good times. No waiting in line. No name reservations. Everyone is welcome as long as the place is not over packed! "No droids, we don't serve their kind here!"

lol Come to Dreshdae Cantina. Open bar 24/7 Everyone Reroll Dreshdae Cantina! Save the Cantina!

The main one I play on is Dreshdae Cantina. I've seen about 20 people spread out across empire just in the last two days. GTN went from empty to having stuff on it this morning. Not much but it's something. I'm happy it's starting to pick up. I hope some of the people come back who transferred to shadowlands. They were pretty friendly.

I won't be a bit surprised if that is phase two of the transfer process. Also don't be shocked if they do it exactly like that and almost all the player base cancels at the same time. They need to offer free transfers off the destination servers before they do anything else. Back to origin or else where to repopulate the healthy population servers they killed with this.

How is it silly to stay on your own server with a group of friends and a guild and wait this circus out? While the majority of players are getting more and more ticked off, about a dozen of us stayed on our home server and have got to keep everything we started with like names, our characters since we are able to log in. We have no lag, no login wait time. Our economy is not what it once was obviously, but it's picking back up as people have started coming back on new characters and new players are also starting out. Traffic started picking up again on my server even before the patch hit. I can see your point if you're worried strictly about pvp more than anything, but not everyone pvp's. BioWare will simply have to say they are going to merge servers instead of calling it optional transfers. It blew up in everyone's face, including theirs. I'm going to sit back, stay on the Cantina and watch this continue. I read some where that BioWare was doing this in three phases, I'm curious as to what the next one will be. This one obviously has a lot of people upset as they got themselves stuck and no where to go.