After a flurry of community feedback and criticism, the Aion Team will devote a lot of their customer service team to ensuring that these names end up in the right hands

Originally, the Aion Team had the interesting idea to add a server acronym to the end of every character that would have a name conflict when the server merges occurred. In this way, when the characters were merged, they would be given name change tickets and, essentially, the fastest name changer would win the day. Unfortunately, many players have voiced their opinions on this matter, most notably being the fact that players have been making low level alternate characters to "poach" the names of players they don't like, thereby forcing the player to change their name when the servers merge (and in the worst case scenario, discovering that the lower level alternate character had already claimed it).

As such, the Aion Team has now decided that they will be implementing an abuse resolution policy where players can report other players for name poaching and, if the original character is more active and is of a higher level, the name will automatically default to them. Well done, NCsoft, and nice quick reactions!