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EME is doing pretty much everything they can to upset players. I have no idea what is really going on, but whatever it is, my suggestion would be to just rename your character, because your fight is futile.
Now that people know they can do name appeals, expect a flood of players trying to grab up names where ever they can.
I hope you have success, my friend. I'll send you a DM.
Well that's good to know. Whether or not they're actually honoring their statement is another issue. My name was taken back on Oct 2nd, but I'm sure this "mystery name sniper" probably put his ticket in before Oct 1st.
My problem rn is not only the name appeal, I can't even send in a ticket regarding a bunch of my outfits that are currently owned by random IGNs that I don't even own. I can't even send in another ticket unless I confirm that the name appeal ticket is resolved. They want me to close my ticket so I can appeal for a different thing -_- this is so stupid.. just trying to shut ppl up. I'm going to keep trying to get my name back first.
I did have a couple of my names get appealed but to be fair I sniped them. So whatevs.
> I have a level 65 slayer that I've been active on for 4 years, right?
> someone else just started playing the game
> they have a name I like, so I can just use a name changer to basically usurp they're character because I have more playtime?
Yes, you're reading that right: I'm intentionally being the bad guy here. I think I can understand the situation better that way.
Most likely, this is exactly why the opportunity for an appeal was put in to place. Not to argue over what name belongs to who, but to find cases of intentionally stealing. You would also have to have that character play time on a different server that also happened to be merging with the server the other person is on, making it a little less likely to happen.
It sucks you lost your name OP, but this is a pretty common issue with MMO server merges.
Wow. That's a pretty sh***y system if that's accurate.
Yet another piece of credence that EME has no QC.
On the bright side I did get to keep some killer names on Kaiator server so I transferred there.
Stop putting blame on a company for regular practice in server merge. What exactly would you suggest, within reason, that they would do with players who share name conflicts who A) Have not logged in for 30 days or longer or B ) Have less than another conflicting player invested in the game. I definitely knew about the 30 day inactive rule before the server merge, however I heard it from a discord channel discussion in my own guild, so I cannot speak to the way the announcement was held. Disabling name changes does help to quell trolls but the other side of that is the ability to put a name you deem very worthwhile on a character with a lot of play time, completely inconveniences players for a full month or longer, of which you can be certain there would be forum posts just like this on the flip side.
If you think this is bad, you should see Bless Online. They had an unreasonable queue time for launch, opened up to 16 new servers to compensate, and less than 2 months later, consolidated all of the servers in to two again, essentially wiping all early access names and on launch names with over a dozen conflicts between players. Not saying this went butter smooth but damn it can get a lot worse.
What would I suggest? I'd keep things simple: if you have a character name that conflicts with another, whoever's character has less play time has to change their name. Lighten the blow by giving everyone an not-for-resale/trade (yet bankable) name changer for each character that player owns after the merge is complete. None of this arbitrary "But, if you log in at this specific time during this specific moon phase..." bollocks. The decision sticks unless there's hard, tangible proof that otherwise is the case. But that's just me.
And I'm "putting blame on a company" because this is yet another thing that EME has done the ended up breaking something if not itself.