One global one server list once more EU is told they are loosers!

IMO the fairest way in the event of a conflict is to award the unmodified global to the longest active account.

It is not fair to have to give up your global to an NA account just because you have an EU account. Just as others were saying that its not fair for an NA account to lose its global to a 1 month EU account, it is also not fair for a 6 year EU account to lose its global to a 2 year NA account. The thing all you NA players have to remember is that even if this seems like a minor issue, after years and years of second class treatment this just feels like a final kick in the teeth to a lot of us.

And as a side note, I find it amusing that the people who are at no risk of losing their globals are the ones trying to tell us that its no big deal.

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For what it's worth, I think that the method they've described is less than ideal. Personally, I think that they should state some goals and design a system to implement it. Right now, their goal is explicitly stated as, "minimum number of users impacted." I'd like to see something more like:

• Current subscribers get priority over people whose accounts have lapsed.
• The above point is tempered by people whose accounts have not been lapsed very long, possibly due to a mistake or a short break.
• People who have been playing (i.e. paying) get priority over people who haven't been playing as long.
• Least number of people impacted.

• If there is a conflict between an active EU and an active NA account, whoever has the most paid active time under their belt gets priority.
• For purposes of determining priority, people whose accounts have become inactive within the previous four weeks will be considered active, but the time your account has been inactive will not count as paid active time as described above. If your account is inactive due to a billing glitch or you are taking a short break, likely to return, you will not be adversely affected.
• If there is a conflict between an active account and an inactive account, the active account will have priority. It doesn't matter whether the active account is an NA account or a EU account, or vice versa.
• If there is a conflict between two inactive accounts, the inactive account with the most paid active time under their belt gets priority.
• If there is a tie (e.g. if both accounts are trial accounts with zero paid active time), both global names are released. Whoever logs on first and gets the global name back retains it.

For those who have an inactive NA Trial account with same name (and global)...

I send an official incident/mail to NCSOFT Support to have the trial removed/deleted. Including my wishes... why... and the copy of the exact details of the account.

Even if we are unable to remove the old Trial... NCSOFT dbase administration can remove it! And an official incident will be followed up. Checked now and indeed it has been send to the North-American Support Team.

Do this in time! Maybe they can/will remove the old/unwanted game account and that will prevent a lot of hassle later on.

You would quit because you loose your GLOBAL handle ? not even the name of your main and most beloved character ?

WOW, you leave me speachless.

And clearly the EU playerbase has had a rather different experience.
(Unless I am mistaken) Their entire playerbase has two English-Language servers.
That alone creates a different atmosphere than the NA playerbase's community.
I pretty much only play on one server, but I interact with several on these boards that only play on some other server and so on.

I just think it is worth reminding people that differing values are placed in different things (not just because of EU/NA) and that, just because you or I don't feel as strongly about something it doesn't mean someone else is inherently wrong to feel the way they do.

Of course there are extremes that could be classified as altogether unhealthy, but I don't think we've really seen any signs of such a thing.

While global names may not be the thing that does it for you... there is probably some silly thing that would upset you if it were tampered with, removed and/or otherwise altered.
It happens.
Hopefully things will work out well.


EDIT: Oh, and Liz, do let everyone know how that process turns out (as I'm sure you will). That scenario (inactive NA accounts of your own) seems to be the most likely culprit in messing things up.
Of course, I'm imagining that the Paragon Studios team will do something to counteract that, but it is always best to do whatever you can yourself!