https://forums.funcom.com/t/great-plani ... ?u=chrisaxHey, y’all! Sorry for the frustration over names. Please feel free to visit help.funcom.com and submit a ticket specifically for “AO2019 Name Recovery”. We are trying to help with some name recoveries.
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https://forums.funcom.com/t/great-plani ... ?u=chrisax
(...) indeed like many old players you should have been entitled to the use of your existing names or at least one.
The issue is that in a highly social game like AO and as old as AO AND where reputations matter a lot (there is no MMO combining those three factors as much as AO does), a well-known and respected name is extremely important.
There is obviously a serious mistake in the event design there. I feel sorry for you and for everyone else, faithful AO players, who will experience the same thing.
Some people already told me that without their long-used name, and ***worse with thei long-used names taken by someone else, they will not play on the new server***.
That's a waste of good people. I don't undertand why it was not possible to reserve at least one name to save honorable names.
And I don't even mention ORGANIZATION NAMES that can be hacked too...
Side note: Athen Paladins on the New server is the real one.