05-05-2005, 09:38 AM
I have now another theory based on three facts:
1.) About 8-10 hours before my UD Warrior "Parzival" has been renamed to the random-generated name "Shyold", we had massive login and connection problems here in Europe/Germany. Also, the servers had been taken down for "emergency maintenance" and a server-side patch during that time.
2.) I still haven't heard anything from Blizzard or a GM, so they might actually have no clue why I'm complaining about the loss of my character name through renaming by a GM
3.) I could recreate a new character named "Parzival" on the same day, so that name hasn't been banned from the server
Now my theory:
The character data of my UD Warrior was stored on their servers under the name/reference/database entry "Parzival". When the servers became unstable (the aforementioned server problems and/or maintenance), that reference "Parzival" got somehow lost or destroyed during, for example, one of the disconnects. And in such a "worst case", the server software simply assigns a new, random name reference - "Shyold" in my case - so that your character data doesn't get lost and remains stored under your account.
This is really the only thing I can imagine which would explain the very customer-unfriendly behavior of Blizzard/the GM's so far. Three questions remain:
1.) Is Blizzard aware of such issues, and if they are:
2.) Why is there no official word about it to warn customers to play during such instable server times
3.) If my conclusion is true, then everyone can lose at any time the name of his/her beloved character(s) and get a random, maybe completely unsatisfying name(s) assigned
Your thoughts about this theory? Is anybody here who could confirm that?
1.) About 8-10 hours before my UD Warrior "Parzival" has been renamed to the random-generated name "Shyold", we had massive login and connection problems here in Europe/Germany. Also, the servers had been taken down for "emergency maintenance" and a server-side patch during that time.
2.) I still haven't heard anything from Blizzard or a GM, so they might actually have no clue why I'm complaining about the loss of my character name through renaming by a GM
3.) I could recreate a new character named "Parzival" on the same day, so that name hasn't been banned from the server
Now my theory:
The character data of my UD Warrior was stored on their servers under the name/reference/database entry "Parzival". When the servers became unstable (the aforementioned server problems and/or maintenance), that reference "Parzival" got somehow lost or destroyed during, for example, one of the disconnects. And in such a "worst case", the server software simply assigns a new, random name reference - "Shyold" in my case - so that your character data doesn't get lost and remains stored under your account.
This is really the only thing I can imagine which would explain the very customer-unfriendly behavior of Blizzard/the GM's so far. Three questions remain:
1.) Is Blizzard aware of such issues, and if they are:
2.) Why is there no official word about it to warn customers to play during such instable server times
3.) If my conclusion is true, then everyone can lose at any time the name of his/her beloved character(s) and get a random, maybe completely unsatisfying name(s) assigned
Your thoughts about this theory? Is anybody here who could confirm that?
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