132855-characters-deleted

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When the game launched I grabbed a load of names, most of them have been levelled to 50 as classes on both of the factions.
 
I had one name left I hadn't touched that I was planning to use for the one class I have never tried (warrior) - and decided to save it for when F2P launches so I could enjoy the levelling experience all over again in zones that weren't empty.
 
I logged in just now to discover that the level 1 character had been deleted, and when I created a new character the name I had been sitting on is no longer available.
 
I am incredibly disappointed.
 
Was there any advance warning that level 1 characters were going to be purged with F2P?  I would have spent 5 minutes levelling the character to level 5 or something to prevent this happening had I been aware.
 
 	
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Hi there, We did have a notice about it, you can also read it on our FAQ here that characters should be moved off of the Arkship.  
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What will happen to low level characters still on the Arkship during transition?Due to changes that are being implemented for WildStar’s tutorial experience, accounts will face deletion of characters that are between levels 1 and 3 and reside on the Arkship tutorial zones. If there is a characters between levels 1 and 3 on the Arkship that players want to keep through the transition, those account holders need to move those characters off the Arkship before the transition occurs.
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It was mentioned several times that characters still on the arkships would be deleted, if they weren't moved off the ship before F2P started.
Both in the FAQ and in the live streams. :/	
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My bad then.
 
Still a major downer, but I'll just have to come up with a new name whilst the server is down for maintenance :(	
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Yeah, it's always annoying when a good character name has been taken already. Perhaps you can find a good variant?
What was the name?	
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			Ho ho ho, I think you may have to wait until he gets back in :p	
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			IF you left that  character on the ark-ship b4 f2p then "He's dead Jim"	
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