Ok, I'm going to toss in my opinion on this thread since I have been told to contribute to the discussion from my request to NOT be forced to transfer servers.
I tried to read through this thread a few times, and I can see the point of both sides of the discussion. I have the same issues that many do about losing my names, I have transferred 4 of my 7 toons currently and am at only 50% of keeping my names and lost my legacy name. The last 3 characters I will lose their names too, but that's not the main reason I have left them on the dying/closing server.
I left them on their original server because I still have family on that server that play on occassion and we don't care about getting into the big events/flashpoints. We have limited time to play the game and if that time is spent playing the game on a dead server or waiting in a queue, I'm going to play the game. My time if valuable to me and if I have to spend it waiting in a queue then I'll spend it playing a different game.
I know that the queue times have gone down, but there hasn't been any content updates in a while. I'm just posting this to have my opinion heard on another venue, since in game request was made and a phone call was made. However, I am going to request this again:
I do NOT want my characters forced to move from their servers.