I guess I do not understand the urgency to get transfers back. Where are you going to move, and why? They just consolidated servers, and they announced in advance which server populations were going to settle where... weeks before they shut down transfers.

Note: my comment is in no way supportive of transfers being off, and I am glad to see them turn them back on... but I really do not understand the urgency being expressed by players.

I guess I do not understand the urgency to get transfers back. Where are you going to move, and why? They just consolidated servers, and they announced in advance which server populations were going to settle where... weeks before they shut down transfers.

 

Note: my comment is in no way supportive of transfers being off, and I am glad to see them turn them back on... but I really do not understand the urgency being expressed by players.

People want to move away from Satele Shan.

I guess I do not understand the urgency to get transfers back. Where are you going to move, and why? They just consolidated servers, and they announced in advance which server populations were going to settle where... weeks before they shut down transfers.

 

Note: my comment is in no way supportive of transfers being off, and I am glad to see them turn them back on... but I really do not understand the urgency being expressed by players.

There really weren't a lot of people pushing for it. Check this thread, ya it's 3 pages but it's mostly 5 or 6 people saying they want it and others saying no need for it.

I guess some players are having bad lag and hoping transferring will help? Or missed the boat when their friends transferred pre-merge and want to hook back up with them. Not too many other reasons I can think of, but I'm glad they waited till those "blah blah server is the official RP/PvP/PvE server threads all died.

There really weren't a lot of people pushing for it. Check this thread, ya it's 3 pages but it's mostly 5 or 6 people saying they want it and others saying no need for it.

 

I guess some players are having bad lag and hoping transferring will help? Or missed the boat when their friends transferred pre-merge and want to hook back up with them. Not too many other reasons I can think of, but I'm glad they waited till those "blah blah server is the official RP/PvP/PvE server threads all died.

Actually, there are a lot of threads and there's another one that is almost 10 pages long.

Either way, there's a lot of different reasons. Mine is that I want to buy raid runs from an EU guild. Others have issues with legacies, want to switch servers to be with friends, want to get away from lag, want to fix their situation with RP (the whole Satele v. Star Forge thing) -- I've seen all sorts of different reasons.

Alright folks, here are the updates as I mentioned yesterday!

 

• Timing: We are in the final stages of testing and assuming that all goes well, we are going to bring transfers back online on Tuesday with Game Update 5.6.
  
• Pricing: By popular request, we are going to bring transfers back at the pre-United Forces pricing (90 // 150CC) for a limited time. After that time they will go up to their new standard pricing of 1,000CC.
  

I will let you all know on Monday if we are still on track for transfers to go live again on Tuesday and the exact timing for the sale pricing.

 

Thanks everyone.

 

-eric

Can you guys lower the cost of character name and legacy name changes then when server transfer costs go back up to 1000cc?

• Pricing: By popular request, we are going to bring transfers back at the pre-United Forces pricing (90 // 150CC) for a limited time. After that time they will go up to their new standard pricing of 1,000CC.
  

 

-eric

OK...what's going on there? First you announce you'll be doubling our existing UC's and now you're keeping transfer prices low for us to move? This is like, the exact opposite of everything you've done all year.......I could get use to this Eric...

Alright folks, here are the updates as I mentioned yesterday!

 

• Timing: We are in the final stages of testing and assuming that all goes well, we are going to bring transfers back online on Tuesday with Game Update 5.6.
  
• Pricing: By popular request, we are going to bring transfers back at the pre-United Forces pricing (90 // 150CC) for a limited time. After that time they will go up to their new standard pricing of 1,000CC.
  

I will let you all know on Monday if we are still on track for transfers to go live again on Tuesday and the exact timing for the sale pricing.

 

Thanks everyone.

 

-eric

Notice the carefully hidden disclaimer.

Not that I'm transferring any of my characters. I'm just saying that I wouldn't hold my breath. Someone may just drop a turkey giblet into the code and mess things up.

PSA for those planning on transferring lots of toons due to lag: transfer 1 and test the lag on the new server first. If it's not any better, at least you didn't spend 2k cartel coins transferring 25 toons.

Why transfer 1 to test the lag? Wouldn't it be cheaper to just create a test character?

Looks like I will be pleasantly surprised next week, then. (assuming disintegration values for gear in RNG boxes is decent.)

It will be interesting to see how the population balances out by the end of the year.

[*]Pricing: we are going to bring transfers back at the pre-United Forces pricing (90 // 150CC) for a limited time

*does the ants in the pants dance!

Why transfer 1 to test the lag? Wouldn't it be cheaper to just create a test character?

It would, but if the lag is only in certain places (pvp especially) it would be a lot quicker, especially since lowbies don't pop that much (and you'd have to level your toon up to 10, which also takes more time, and lowbies has few effects than 70s). If they went back to 1000, definitely worth it, but at 90, especially since it'll sync legacies up as well, it's probably worth it to move one.

Alright folks, here are the updates as I mentioned yesterday!

 

• Timing: We are in the final stages of testing and assuming that all goes well, we are going to bring transfers back online on Tuesday with Game Update 5.6.
  
• Pricing: By popular request, we are going to bring transfers back at the pre-United Forces pricing (90 // 150CC) for a limited time. After that time they will go up to their new standard pricing of 1,000CC.
  

I will let you all know on Monday if we are still on track for transfers to go live again on Tuesday and the exact timing for the sale pricing.

 

Thanks everyone.

 

-eric

You should bring out a combo deal 1300cc 1x transfer 1x Character rename 1x legacy rename.

I guess I do not understand the urgency to get transfers back. Where are you going to move, and why? They just consolidated servers, and they announced in advance which server populations were going to settle where... weeks before they shut down transfers.

I wasn't paying very close attention to where I had my characters. 39 of them merged into Star Forge and 4 of them merged into Satele Shan. It will be nice to get them all onto a single server.

Open server transfers -> Everyone moves to Starforge -> Starforge will become the next SS -> SS will lose population -> Merging of both servers ->???-> What was the point?

Now this may seem like the worst case scenario, but it wouldn't surprise me if it actually happened.

Open server transfers -> Everyone moves to Starforge -> Starforge will become the next SS -> SS will lose population -> Merging of both servers ->???-> What was the point?

 

Now this may seem like the worst case scenario, but it wouldn't surprise me if it actually happened.

Unfortunately, I have to agree. One direction or the other, I am expecting a large majority on one server and a very small population on the other. Right now I have 22 on one and 26 on the other, 1 main and a couple alts total that I do anything at all with.

I guess I do not understand the urgency to get transfers back. Where are you going to move, and why? They just consolidated servers, and they announced in advance which server populations were going to settle where... weeks before they shut down transfers.

 

Note: my comment is in no way supportive of transfers being off, and I am glad to see them turn them back on... but I really do not understand the urgency being expressed by players.

I had to have chars on US and EU servers because of the population on the former Red Eclipse at some of the hours I play - solo play does not really hold my interest that much. Since the merge I have found Malgus (where the vast majority of my characters are) to be populated sufficiently at those times that I do not need to also play on Satele, which I did not foresee before the merge. I do, however, have one decently geared char that I would like to move to Malgus, and he is about to hit rank 300 which will complete my 100% cxp boost, so thanks Eric

OK...what's going on there? First you announce you'll be doubling our existing UC's and now you're keeping transfer prices low for us to move? This is like, the exact opposite of everything you've done all year.......I could get use to this Eric...

ikr? <3

Looks like I will be pleasantly surprised next week, then. (assuming disintegration values for gear in RNG boxes is decent.)

 

It will be interesting to see how the population balances out by the end of the year.

You know it won't be as high as we'd like it. But it's still better than nothing but PvP or NiM and should be considered a supplement, not a primary source.

What is all this noise about SS and Starforge? I don't get it. Why would everyone move to SF?

I'm on Starforge but I live in the UK, so my ping is quite high and I've never been able to enjoy compettive gamine (raids/warzones) because of that, and i've built a legacy here since 2012, it would have cost way too much to transfer all my toons, and i've gotten to many rare items and spent too much CC on stuff I would completely lose if i started afresh, it just killed my motivation..

So because i couldn't move regions, even after cross region transfers opened (because it was 1.5k CC per toon) I actually ended up giving up on SWTOR ) - i haven't been subscribed or playing because i could never do anything serious b/c of high pings, so just quit. Now I have been constantly looking, even when not playing for some sort of discount sale on the cross region transfers, but never saw it. So something like this could actually cause me to play SWTOR again and actually renew a subscription more permanently.

SInce the United Forces server realm merge, my ping situation has gotten far worse, I log on, and can barely stand to play and just log off. If they weren't going to offer some sort of free or heavily discounted server cross region transfer this would probably have been my last month ever on SWTOR, subscribed or unsubscribed,

This annoucnement has given me a lot of hope and gotten me excited again, if it does happen next week.

Open server transfers -> Everyone moves to Starforge -> Starforge will become the next SS -> SS will lose population -> Merging of both servers ->???-> What was the point?

 

Now this may seem like the worst case scenario, but it wouldn't surprise me if it actually happened.

I think it will be interesting to see what all the Star Forge people who have been cheering about not being on the "toxic post-Harbinger" server, who come here asking that all Harb players be squelched or banned (lol wut?) will have to say after those people leave SS and it becomes the quiet little haven they've been clamoring for since server merges were announced.

Honestly, all former RP servers should have just been merged together in the first place, and all others onto the other server and it would have solved at least that problem/complaint. With the move of server farm, it doesn't make sense anymore that they merged all east coast and all west coast, only for them to become all east coast. Would have made more sense to merge by population play style, but it's too late now. Let the self-sorting begin!

I think it will be interesting to see what all the Star Forge people who have been cheering about not being on the "toxic post-Harbinger" server, who come here asking that all Harb players be squelched or banned (lol wut?) will have to say after those people leave SS and it becomes the quiet little haven they've been clamoring for since server merges were announced.

 

Honestly, all former RP servers should have just been merged together in the first place, and all others onto the other server and it would have solved at least that problem/complaint. With the move of server farm, it doesn't make sense anymore that they merged all east coast and all west coast, only for them to become all east coast. Would have made more sense to merge by population play style, but it's too late now. Let the self-sorting begin!

When did RP become a problem? Anyway, isn't that easy to solve? You can tag RP like you tag PVP or PVE and the computer server would just load you into an instance dedicated to RP, like it would do for PvP and pvE - that way RP people don't have to put up with non rps and vice versa, just like pvp people can enjoy pvp instances to themselves, and pvE can too despite all being on the same server.

Transfers should be reserved for people like me, who have to move region because of pings/latency or others who basically after merge had x toons on one server and y toons on another and wanted to bring them all together on one.

I guess I do not understand the urgency to get transfers back. Where are you going to move, and why? They just consolidated servers, and they announced in advance which server populations were going to settle where... weeks before they shut down transfers.

 

Note: my comment is in no way supportive of transfers being off, and I am glad to see them turn them back on... but I really do not understand the urgency being expressed by players.

Because if you want to start on another server and haven’t done all the class stories yet, you do not get any of the class buffs. Which really sucks and makes a big difference in things like pvp.

Alright folks, here are the updates as I mentioned yesterday!

 

• Timing: We are in the final stages of testing and assuming that all goes well, we are going to bring transfers back online on Tuesday with Game Update 5.6.
  
• Pricing: By popular request, we are going to bring transfers back at the pre-United Forces pricing (90 // 150CC) for a limited time. After that time they will go up to their new standard pricing of 1,000CC.
  

I will let you all know on Monday if we are still on track for transfers to go live again on Tuesday and the exact timing for the sale pricing.

 

Thanks everyone.

 

-eric

When you say “limited time”. Are we talking a week, two weeks, one month, two months?

Can we please get some confirmation on this because some people with lots of characters will need to plan ahead to budget moving 30 characters x 90cc.

Also, what does 90 // 150CC mean? I thought the old price was 90CC. So what’s the 150CC stand for?

Edit: someone explained the 90 // 150 CC thing,

When you say “limited time”. Are we talking a week, two weeks, one month, two months?

Can we please get some confirmation on this because some people with lots of characters will need to plan ahead to budget moving 30 characters x 90cc.

 

Also, what does 90 // 150CC mean? I thought the old price was 90CC. So what’s the 150CC stand for?

150 was for moving internationally, so from Europe to US and vice versa