I logged in for the first time in months just to say WOOOOOOOOOOOOW

This is the most incredibly bad and idiotic way to do a merge with guild/character names that I have ever seen, and that's actually saying something since I've seen quite a lot of horrible server merges.

"first to get the name keeps it"

So massive name stealing and guild name stealing etc?

Do you even know how many people won't be able to log in and play the moment the server is back up to get their names? No regards to character creation date, account or character age or anything? That's already recorded in the game but you don't even use it. Not to mention all the people who will have to have new horrible 1234 names since there's so many names already taken.

And LOL @ anyone who actually played both servers, get owned hard.

This may be the single biggest screw up in the history of this game and that is REALLY saying something.