[Honest opinion- do you think the game is in trouble?]

This is a bit childish. Cancel your account because a change that you disagree with has made the service less valuable than the asking price (in your opinion), not to spite the developers. This is even more true in a case when there's no way that you don't realize just how much of a minority you are as an anti-transfer supporter.

 

Its childish?

 

Why is leaving a game if you lose all of your chars childish? We play that game with our chars, if they are gone or are left alone on a dead server with 23 others where you had 1000 before then this is a serious issue.

 

I do know that names, server community are not important for everyone but for me these things are a key element in an MMO. And as I said, i had the same situation at AoC and Warhammer - you may laugh but I seem to be very unlucky there, its like a repeating nightmare that occured the 3rd time now.

 

And I doubt I am alone with that issue, this thread and others do prove that the whole transfer move of BW was not very well done, necessary at some servers yes - but at all? I doubt that, especially if I look at my server which had pvp action all day, planets with enough players for multiple hero quest´s etc.

You might have been lucky regarding the transfers but not everyone was. Even if 70% were happy and 30% unhappy then those 30% are too many allready.

 

I quit because I dont have the time to start from 0 and playing with only 23 others is pretty much pointless in an MMO, something you should also understand.

 

I wasnt happy when they added dps meters, announced LFG, cancelled solo rated or lowered the graphics for those with bad pc´s, did I quit? No I didnt, so calling me a child is just

[Honest opinion- do you think the game is in trouble?]

It's very hard to ignore the various harbingers of doom that have popped up over the months. Since my own rp server (Lord Kalypho) has turned into a ghost fleet, i abandoned my IA and went to a better populated server. This is within 6 months of playing. Something I never thought that I would have been doing in the first year.

 

I have defended swtor tooth and nail since day one, but even i had a bit of "oh dear...maybe I have been wrong" as I was re-rolling another character last night.

 

So being honest, are any of the die hard defenders of the game starting to feel the same way?

 

Yes and No.

 

I play since pre rerelease, and I was a bit sad about the missing graphic sliders like grass rendering distance, the lack of solo ranked pvp (which has now been confirmed finally) or also the introduction of dps meters and LFG but still I was always defending the game here at the forum if someone did complain about performance, no groups, or queue´s and bugs. After all SWTOR is a damn good MMO and this since day 1!

 

 

But yes, the whole "if you dont transfer your server is dead, but you lose all names if you transfer" has also made me change my mind. I will still not post whine threads here or insult BW employee´s but I cancelled a few days ago to show BW that transfers were more bad than good in my case.

 

I have a "pre story" here so I do react a bit heavy on that topic, as I had the same at Warhammer and AoC once when they closed my servers for weird reasons and I lost all chars there too. I did love both games, even tho they had major bugs at release but when I lost my chars I also quit and never came back.

 

At Tor the same thing happened now and again I cant do anything and I am tired of always starting from 0 again. If Blizz did 1 thing right, then it is their server management. I have my chars and nothing can happen to them, no matter how long I dont play or how many people complain about not finding a group.

 

 

In the end its just very sad and as much as I understand their reason, as much I dont understand why it had to be my server and why they cant find a better solution for names.

 

 

The game is great, the people that maintain the forum do well and also their support is great, they do know how important solo q is and did confirm it now. Keep this up and please find a solution for multiple names

[Fear of loseing a name]

I rarely post, but as I watch the influx of people moving from one server, to the server I have been at since the beginning ************ about someone having their name, I can only smile.

 

A couple of things to think about, those of you coming to another server.

 

1.) You asked, nay, you begged, dare I say DEMANDED these transfers. Now you have them. Take your win where you can get it.

 

2.) The person that shares had your name on the destination server very well may have been a server native, chances are actually better that it was a native rather then a transfer that had your 'oh so precious' name. You came to thier server. Again, this is your price.

 

3.) Oh, and three. Someone else chose the EXACT same name as you. So, obviously, you weren't as creative/original as you thought you were.

 

Basically, yeah, you pay $15 dollars a month to play this game, you aren't going to get everything you want. Fact of life. 15 dollars a month ain't squat. For twice that you can go watch a film in theaters (I'm assuming you got concessions to go along with your tickets, also, that you might actually have brought a date. For a majority of you that is a huge assumption, I know) you'd likely be ************ about too.

 

So, look at it this way: Bioware has given you a reason to ***** for a full month, and saved you 15 bucks. Perhaps you should show them some appreciation.

 

I feel the pain of those that lost their names, the whole transfer thingy killed my server and I would need new names now too, if I transfer. I stopped playing because of it

 

Do I blame BW or other players? Well not really, but it is indeed sad as I was also one of those that did pre order and made 8 chars right at the start, all of them having their own story, in a good RP environment.

 

I am unsure why MMO´s do struggle with multiple names still, we are in the year 2012 it should not be an issue tbh.

 

It would be wrong to delete chars of those that dont play anymore as they might come back some day, but it is also wrong to force about 50% of the players to rename their toons.

Now that BW does focus on 1 RP, 1 PVP, 1 PVE Server they need to find a solution and as soon they do, I will be happy to renew my acc as the game is really great, one of the better ones that I played in the last 10 years.

 

 

Edit:

 

I also never demanded transfers, we had about 1000 players online at prime - the server was fine. Some people did need a transfer, those at ghost servers but all? No, I dont think so!

[Ok, Bioware. Now what? Are you really forcing me to delete 9 chars?]

They aren't asking you to delete any. Transfers are voluntary, not mandatory.

 

We all know that this is not true.

 

My server was healthy and standard before the transfers but has 23 players online right now. I mean its really not hard to see that staying behind is the end of the game for you, as you will be alone then. No pvp pops, no more dungeons or raids etc.

 

I do also wish that BW would had not done the whole transfer thingy in such a mandatory way. Dead servers with maybe only 100 players online average should have gotten transfers but not those with about 1000.

 

 

It cant be changed now, the boy did fall in the water so to speak but ya its sad for those that have many alts or are just very strict in RP and need to start from 0 again now.

[Transfers are not always good]

no one changed the topic from your origional.. you are mad you lost your name and are quitting the game... thats what people re talking about..t hey think you are over reacting, and that a name shouldnt be the most important thing in your character , and if you have to change your name it shouldnt kill the character.

 

thats still on topic for your thread...

 

I think we define troll different

 

Anyways, am I mad? Well Id say a bit sad and disappointed that customers who have a sub since early access can be screwed over that easily. especially if you did never blame BW for bugs, or performance issues and did stay on your high pop server even with 60 min queues.

 

I am not saying that those who dont have the names aslong as I do, should lose them but it was obvious that such issues would come up if they only want 1 RP server for europe.

It would just had been wise to allow multiple names or something else before making such a transfer.

 

Its always easy talking for those not affected, but if you lose 8 chars by this then its kinda gamebreaking

[Transfers are not always good]

As someone who has roleplayed in MMORPGs for years the thought of loosing the characters I have developed and built, their friends, their families, their comrades, their background story and all the little details and things they have done that make that character who they are; is far more devastating than having to choose a new name for them.

 

If you're willing to loose the character you have developed rather than change their name then you're not attached to your character.

 

Nah I think there you are very wrong.

 

If you are a true RP type of person then everything about your char matters for you. The look, the style of the equip, the story, the "friends" like here in this game the family tree.

 

If 1 thing is gone, you have still your char but something is just missing.

 

I dont know how you can accept this as an RP if your whole family changes its names, unless you come up with a story where they are all hunted and must hide. But then the true name should atleast be visible for yourself ingame

 

In the end people have different opinions about that issue, which is fine. Some trolls unfortunately made it in the topic again... but still thanks for those who actually tried to give me some suggestions.

 

I hope they manage the multiple names some day or a xrealm LFG (cant believe I am saying this )

[Transfers are not always good]

Well, the server was standard not light Now it is light, yes.

 

Both RP servers were btw. and BW seems to think that 1 RP is enough for EU and they picked Pro and not Trask.

 

Ofc. I can only speak for myself if I talk about our population, I was playing there since early access and always found groups, even for the heroics etc. Also the people were very friendly, thats why I dont understand this move.

 

 

As for my names,

 

well I pick names always so that they fit my char thats why I play MMO´s always from day 1 or early access, as they are then still available.

I dont have any Luke Skywalkers or something, or Lore names etc. Just names that I always use depending on the char and playstyle.

And yes, they are important for me - I understand that names are not important for many of you, thats fine but for me they are.

 

I will not open whine threads or anything, nah I never did I always enjoyed the game regardless of bugs or queue´s. But I will also not play any further and did just cancel, maybe BW can come up with multiple names someday then I will be glad to join you guys again. as the game is great since day 1.

 

But to play further right now is not an option, I know I wouldnt have fun - I went through all of this at War and AOC and the chars are just not the same without their names.

[Transfers are not always good]

I logged in today and saw that my server trask ulgo was free for transfers. Something which is weird, as we always had a healthy population and many hundred players online at the same time. Finding a group worked well in our LFG channel, only took about 10 minutes and pvp queues did pop regulary.

 

Logging in today was a nightmare, only 39 other players were online... My guess is, that a lot people did move to the other RP server but now Trask is dead. Why kill a standard server like this, I dont get it.

 

Moving aint an option for me, as all my names are taken allready.

 

I am sure most other transfer options were fine, atleast people seem to be happy but for me the game now is over which is sad as it was a good game.

 

I find it sad that those who made a char at early release are let down like this, especially if the server we were on was fine.

[Please don't allow group finder to go live without gearcheck.]

This isn't about "excluding people" from the content. It's about making the endgame content as accessible and enjoyable for the majority of customers.(so that the game succeeds)

 

If you limit the access to a specific pool of players only, then you exclude people. Simple logic

 

I know you guys seem to think I have some kind of hatred for new players or started playing WoW on Wotlk(both false) but the reality is I just want this game to do well and if BioWare keep making half arsed attempts at introducing new content then that simply isn't going to happen.

 

The game was great at release, you wow fans just killed it by your demands

 

I'm amazed really, I'm trying to give good suggestions here while you guys would actually prefer it if they leave out things that are proven to work well in similar mmos. Fast forward a month or two and then the forums will fill up with posts about how the group finder is too slow(lack of cross server, dual spec) and rants by people that have run dungeons with people without the right gear.

 

I would like to know which MMO has a working & good LFG tool. Wow has not, incase you wanted to add this.

 

The wow tool has gear checks that are totally unrealistic. A 329 gear check for dungeons that people did on release in 320 and now after the nerfs do in 290.

Still people kick those out of groups that do not have a 350+ gear value.

How can you call this working'? Wow has totally lost the accesebility to new players and those on alts. Dual specs did also increase the ninja loot philosophie by a lot as people tend to roll on everything now but horrible suck as tank or healer, as they only wanted to get in quicker.

 

 

This made me laugh, "hey the most successful MMO of all time did this and it works well so lets not include it in our game." and then they wonder why the subs are dropping, sounds like BioWare logic to me

 

The most successfull MMO is wow vanilla & TBC. There was no LFG in these games, except the stone portal. So please dont try to make things up, there are people in this forum who know the truth and will just make you look very bad

 

WOTLK and Cata both lost many subs in EU and US, yes they are covered by the asians but still does wow not shine as much anymore as in vanilla and tbc.

 

True it doesn't take skill into account, but it adds one less variable to the mix so that players are more likely to succeed in encounters.

 

From my wow experience are those in full epics who use the LFG horrible players that stand in fire, cant support or just fail on boss mechanics.

 

Badly geared player - Can't down the boss because his gear isn't good enough to kill it before enrage timer.

 

This is just wrong. Do you really think that someone joins a group if he has let´s say lvl 40 items? No he wont, he will just have lvl 50 equip like we all had when we did start. We managed to finish every FP, so I dont see why they cant especially as there will now always be someone with high gear in the group + the dungeons were nerfed.

 

You might talk a bit too much about yourself there, you might not be able to play good without overgearing content - thats fine, but you should also understand that there are better players than you who can.

With gearscore the group always has players with the right gear for the encounter so the only variable left is for the players to have the competence to complete it.

 

Even if BW add´s such a score, people like you will still kick everyone out who is not going to carry you. Cmon, we all played wow, we know how these things work / failed.

[Will you resubscribe to SWTOR after 1.3?]

I know many of you here are proud subscribers of the game, myself included. My question here is for the people that are unsubscribed.

 

1.3 comes server transfers and LFG Tool. These are features that should have been in at launch, and I think contributed to the decline in subscribers. So will those of you that are currently not subbed to the game return with this patch? Are your friends returning?

 

I know some people returning to this game on Wednesday, and I'm curious if I'm not the only one.

 

I will most likely quit when I did test 1.3.

 

LFG killed wow and I am afraid it will kill Tor aswell. I will try a few runs with my tank, if I meet those kiddie "gogogo", "dps roxxors" like at wow, I am gone.

 

Since solo ranked pvp is not in 1.3 there is nothing for me to enjoy

 

 

@ GW2 hype

 

Puplic quest´s etc. will fail very soon, nobody of you played Warhammer? After a week or 2, nobody bothered with them anymore.

Also is GW2 a pay to play game, if you dont want to be weak you must put money into micro transactions - that just suxx.

[Ranked WZ - can they survive single server only?]

The best pvp I had in an MMO was vanilla wow, and it was server only.

 

You will know who you play against and with and this makes it so special, xrealm will never achieve anything like this and is very boring.

 

Unfortunately made BW the mistake with solo queue´s as we dont have them at Tor. So about 80% of the players cant do pvp, even if they wanted to.

[Crafting obsolete because of quest rewards and item drops?]

Crafting should always support the player, no matter if he is raiding, pvping or Rping. Right now crafting is great during lvl up, for Rping ok but for raiding and pvp atleast in my opinion to weak.

 

I did love the crafting of wow at vanilla and tbc, you could always get stuff by crafting that was only available there. For instance the shadow, cold, fire resistance gear - something like this is needed here.

[LFG Tool. Sitting in queue for an hour]

There's only 8 servers Standard or higher now, at peak times. Even the Top 10 servers are starting to dwindle. You'd think the "do it yourself" server merge next week would bring more players online right now to get their toons ready. There's been no influx of players since all the Big News recently. Kinda sad players will come back to this game in 1.3 and sit in que for hours.

 

I've run no HMs or OPs in this game, yet I've run 5 heroics, 2 LFRs and 1 Normal 10man in WoW just in this week. As far as I'm concerneed this game hardly qualifies as a MMO.

 

And with how many people did you have a conversation that week at wow? How many did you put on your f-list and how many did you invite to your guild / played again with?

 

The answer will most likely be none, and this is why wow aint an MMO but a Singleplayer game with bot support. Its just that those bots are controlled by human part´s - but MMO is something else.

 

At Tor you might not do as many dungeons, but you have atleast people on your f-list, a working guild and fun by talking to others.

 

People need to stop and glorify wow as an MMO, it is not an MMO anymore. The MM died at WOTLK, vanilla and to some degree atleast in pve TBC were awesome MMO`s - but then the MM feeling was gone.

[LFG tool will not instantly solve some problems]

Well as to role balance, yeah, dual spec would easily solve the problem of lack of healers/tanks vs players leveling DPS, so if they get around to that - which has been thrown out there for 1.4 as a possibility last I heard - then 4 person groups would be fine:

.

 

Dual spec did not solve anything at wow, so why should it here? Blizz had to hand wellfare pet´s, mounts etc. to tanks so that they queue up

 

Dual spec will just deliver more bad players, as they queue as tank or heal even tho they dont have the gear or skill for that spec, as they are always dps.

[No Gear Check in the LFG tool?]

It has nothing to do with demanding others have epics. Most just think that people should follow a progression. Quest greens/blues should be fine to get into level 50 normal FPs, for instance, buy if they queue for Lost island, they'll be useless. However, if they stick with the normals and then move to the first tier of heroics as the gear up from the normals, and then gear up in the heroics before moving on to LI, they'd be fine by the time they got there. End game should have a forced progression. Otherwise, no one will use a pug finder when most of the groups disband due to constant wiping.

 

Lets be honest, do you really think people queue for a raid if they just dinged 50? They will simply not, I have very seldom seen something like that and I play MMO´s for a decade.

 

Most people will just follow the normal way of the game, but will soon be tired of running the same difficulty all the time and beeing bombed by the elitist crowd with "get better gear" or losing gear to a ninja (what will happen a lot in LFG´s). So they try to get it and join a higher difficulty.

 

The issue is, that you cant progress like we did on release anymore. The crowd on your server will push you into harder dungeons, because if you dont have their gear you are not welcome in their groups. That problem we have every day at wow, people see themselfs and think everyone should and can have the same equipment. There is a thread at the pvp forum, which does show this very well too.

New players have it hard at todays MMO´s.

 

TBH no matter what logic you use, the casuals won't listen because they have no idea *** they're talking about in the first place.

 

Prediction:

1. BW ignores our advice and launches Group Finder without a gear check

2. Casuals rejoice and praise BW for being so delightfully egalitarian

3. Group Finder is a partial fail due to casuals and baddies constantly being kicked rather than carried

4. People abandon Group Finder except for pre-made daily bonus and lowbie crap

 

Ok lets get this straight, the LFG is for Casuals!

 

In every "we need LFG" thread those that wanted it claimed "we casuals have a life and cant search for groups, we need LFG´s". Now that the LFG was designed so that Casuals can play better, you elitist demand that Casuals dont use it?

 

Are you beeing serious?

 

Just go with your guild, the tool is not for your kind. But ya, I know at wow the elitist´s also never understood that

[LFG Tool. Sitting in queue for an hour]

cross server or bust. half-************ it with single-server seems like a silly restriction. as for server community.. there hasn't been any community (or players) on my server in weeks and weeks. there's nothing to ruin if they open up cross-server.

 

there'd be more enjoyment since i'd actually get to do things

 

just sayin

 

Because you were choosing your server with closed eyes on release, everyone did? Wow that Logik totally blows my mind

 

Fact is, most people did select their servers smart and are happy with the game. Just a few were unlucky or just not very smart if it came to server selection.

 

@ topic

 

I hope BW does soon realise that catering the game to the whiners at the forum does not work. They will just never shut up, no matter what tools they get.

 

Give them xrealm and they will cry about too hard dungeons, cmon we have all seen this at Wow.

[No Gear Check in the LFG tool?]

I'm fine with helping someone, but there is a difference between helping and carrying. I don't want to carry anyone; every group member should be pulling his or her weight. A minimum gear check is required for a good LFG tool, because if the LFG tool keeps pairing players up with random bads who have no gear and no clue, then nobody is going to use the damned thing.

 

Too bad that gear does not show who has skill and who not. Usually those in epics suck horrible, but were carried by their guild.

 

Lets face it, a good player with a working guild wont use the LFG. At the LFG you will find those who are not in a guild or just bad players.

 

After all you were not born with epics, but demand that others are.

[Character Transfer: No priority to sub accounts over unsubbed accounts for names?]

Actually, I wouldn't be pissed in that situation because you have the higher legacy level. It means you've spent more time playing than I have.

 

In such a case, it would be no different than if they had simply merged our servers. Someone has to give, so may as well be the one with the lower legacy level.

 

Obviously it wouldn't be that simple thought. People in my guild, and those with me in their friends list would need to somehow know that my name randomly changed. In the end, there are no real clean solutions to the problem, which is why it reflects so poorly on Bioware for even letting the server population issue get so bad at all. Prevention is the best cure.

 

But thats flawed.

 

Someone with legacy 8 like me, doesnt play 24/7 like maybe user X with 40. If I would lose my name now, I would need months to lvl a new char with a fitting name. I do RP so name + design + playstile always fit; losing 1 thing means a dead character.

The high legacy guy tho, would need maybe a week.

 

BW should just forget about those transfers, merges etc. and only do them once they are able to allow multiple names a server. With the legacy name we all have different names in the end, so I dont understand what the problem is.

 

Yes maybe the Luke Skywalker´s will be a problem, but most people are a bit more intelligent in choosing their names - even if its just the sausage crowd that name their char after food.

[No Gear Check in the LFG tool?]

It will only get worse if Bioware puts in an achievement system that gives speed run achievements for the FP's and Ops.

 

Yes like wow has at Panda, I wish dev´s would stop all that measuring stuff in MMO`s. There was a time when everyone was welcome in a group, good old times today its all about elitism and rejecting others from content.

[No Gear Check in the LFG tool?]

dude that is exactly what i'm saying. we are in agreement but somehow we argue, ^^

 

what i try to say is that gearcheck would stop people from skipping step. If you are in correlia gear, why would you jump into T1 HM rather than spending some time on ilum and belsavis first, getting your mod and daily com.

 

Gear check would pace the progression of a character for their maximum enjoyment. Of course, their is still the possibility to skip step, being powergeared by friend/guild, just not using the LFG tool.

 

Because the community does not work like this. Is this really so hard to understand? If you start at the beginning, people will tell you that you suck because you have that gear and not the gear after.

 

You join your first HM, did follow the steps like everyone did on release but still you are removed from that group because you only have daily gear.

 

If you add a gear check people will farm their *** off for nothing, because in the end the community or shall I say the group will still decide if you are in or out. At wow this ment even if you were at 329 a kick was most likely.

 

 

By adding such a gear check you show players that if they finish that step, they are welcome in the content. The truth tho is, they are not more welcome than without that step - because there will always be players that see themselfs as the indicator, so if they have Tier 2 gear everyone must and if not *kick*.

 

I would welcome it, if BW adds a gearcheck so that old dungeons are still played regulary. But then they need to remove the kickvote, else its pointless as you will still not be able to finish stuff without high end gear, as players will demand it, just like they do at wow.

[No Gear Check in the LFG tool?]

1. Run the easier hard modes

2. Do dailies and spend your commendations on good gear;

3. Buy it

 

The problem is people don't want to do the intervening steps because they believe that they are entitled to see all of the content when they hit 50 without having to gear up first.

 

Its not that simple.

 

Even if you run the first dungeon, people will measure you and exclude you from groups. Go play wow in its current state, if you dont wear BoA gear you are removed from most groups and we are talking about gear that is not necessary + highly nerfed lvl up dungeons.

 

A gear check does only work, if the kickvote is disabled. If kickvote and gearchecks are done, new players will run into walls, just like they do at wow these days.

 

Imagine you start a new char, want to gear up but everyone expects you to have perfect gear. Its no fun, its a pain...

 

Blizz has given players too many tools to harass others, at Tor the kickvote is still there - but to now also add a gearscore tool that excludes others would make it even worse. What if you friend is not fully geared? He cant play with you? That just feels wrong, 2 players that know each other always play better than 2 highly geared annonym players.

 

 

Also consider that you join a guild, that guild is about to raid and you must farm daily´s for 1 month to be where they are now. When you are where they are, you are still 1 month behind, as they did advance to the next Tier.

 

MMO´s like wow have the big mistake of making the game too difficult for new players or those that take breaks. Not talking about the skill required, as we all know wow does not require much. its the accesebility that wow has a problem with, players exclude you too often and this is a serious problem in MMO´s lately.

 

Even if you run the first raid tier, people expect that you have the gear allready or even the one of the next tier.

[Character Transfer: No priority to sub accounts over unsubbed accounts for names?]

If your willing to leave the game you say you enjoy just over a name you get to keep or not then I don't think you really enjoy the game as much as you say.

 

Well it might be hard to understand for you, but I need hours if I create a char. I use the RP completely which is provided in those MMO`s - losing this is destroying my fun I have in the game.

 

The name, the outfit, the look it all matters most for me - its very typicall for old school players I think, we didnt need those things like Achivements, xp boost´s, LFG´s, Addons etc. our fun is the MMORPG factor

 

In the end we most likely have a much bigger connection to the games than new players that call their char´s "pizzahut" and jump from game to game.

[Character Transfer: No priority to sub accounts over unsubbed accounts for names?]

But the question is, are you going to demand that "Joe", who was forced to unsubscribe for one reason or another; should give up his characters name so that you can claim it because you were able to keep your subscription up?

 

I want to keep my names, whatever BW does with merges or transfers. I dont demand to get someone else´s name, I got 8 chars and they have their suited names for the RP I do with them.

 

I dont want anyone´s name, as I would never move by free will.

 

If I am forced to move than the only way of keeping me subbed would be that I can keep my names. It does not matter if the other guy is subbed or unsubbed tbh. without my names I cant enjoy the game so either BW finds a way that both keep their names or I am gone.

[No Gear Check in the LFG tool?]

LOL

 

All I know is that I'll be kicking people in greens. Gear check or not

 

I don't care if the guy is a beast at his class. The gear will limit his dps that will gimp the groups overall dps. It is simple math people. Two guys in greens doing 400 dps each won't beat a single enrage timer no matter how good they are at mechanics and their rotations period.

 

No encounters are purely about dps, ok Lootreaver at wow was but if your high dps guys did die in the orbs they were useless.

 

No group is working on the limit, in a raid you always have players that do like 120% thats needed and some that do 80% based on gear. It will all even up in the end, what wont even up is the noobish behaivour of high equipped players that think gear is what plays for them.

 

I would always take a bad equipped one that knows how to play over a high end geared that does not. Unfortunately do many that join those old dungeons in high gear, suck badly.

 

 

In the end I find it very sad that games have become a pure measurement since wow WOTLK. What happened to just playing a game together for fun? Everyone today wants to judge and exclude others, games are supposed to be played together and not against each others. Go play CS if you want that.

[Character Transfer: No priority to sub accounts over unsubbed accounts for names?]

I have had my name <-------- (kraith) since 2004 when I first signed onto SWG and have had it ever since. Everyone who knows me most likely will know me by this name. But with saying this, by no means does this name have any significance in my life. It’s just a name I assigned to some little digital man that I play on a video game. If I transfer and for some reason there is another person that happened to use the name Kraith, which in return forces me to rename my toon, then I will find another name that I like (along with surname) Dear Lord people, it’s a freaking name, if this redefines your social perception of entertainment to that extreme level, then maybe you should stop playing any way. No way, no shape, no how should a name on a video game hold that much importance to force you to stop playing a game.....but then again, nothing within the MMO community will ever baffle me......

 

The name of a char is the most important thing in an MMORPG. I know that many newbies or players who choose food as their name dont care, but for me losing my names is a no go and would be the unsub.

 

If you play a char then you name that char after how you play that char. Thats the RP aspect in every MMO, very important.

 

I dont transfer anywhere, but if a guy would somehow get my names I am gone. Did so at War and AoC where you lost your names after the big transfer wave, even tho you didnt move by free will but because of merges and server close downs.