Free transfers in the future?

I don't even care about FREE transfers. I would pay $10 per character to transfer my toons and another $10 to transfer my legacy. I would choose another name if mine was taken as long as my legacy level remained the same. Maybe even have a package deal to transfer my entire legacy with all toons from one server to another. I think that would be worth $50. It would be better than having to do what I am doing now. Starting from scratch on a high pop server. Running the same classes and professions that I already did once. That sucks way more than having to choose a new name for my legacy or toons cause they are already taken on the new server.

Think about it.

I feel Transfers should be free!

Why charge players for something that is beyond our (the players) control. Let's ask this question: "Why are Server Populations down?"

Server populations are down due to the way the game has been handled. This whole debacle comes from the way BW or EA (whichever one is responsible) has been handling it's CS and updates.

1) Customer Service... leaves a lot to be desired and is practically non-existent.

2) The updates, have not been addressing the issues that are top priority to the players.

So, in response players stop playing! Now, they're going to CHARGE us for transfers, in an attempt to bring the game up to where it should be? Think about this... Is your server pop low because of you?

No, I don't think so. So why pay for something that should be inherent in this type of game from the get go? You're willing to fork over more money (on top of your monthly $15 Sub) just to get more people to run with, when that is the entire purpose of an MMO in the first place? MMO's are meant to be "Social" games. BW is well aware of this, as they stated in one of their first interviews, that the social aspects of this game were going to make it one of the best games out there. Um... guys..... Where did this aspect go?

IMHO I feel Server mergers should be first and foremost on the list of priorities, in an attempt to fix this population issue. Then, FREE TRANSFERS, for those that still want them. People just don't want to continue paying good, hard-earned money for a product that doesn't live up to it's claims or expectations!

Another company did it right. Free transfers; but you have to stay on your new server for 7 days before you can transfer again. This gives the players time to find out how the server works for them and relieves the Dev team from the same character transfering every hour. It works well for them and their players.

I've posted this like 100 times in the past few months. But I am unsubbed, my server is dead, and I want to re-sub but cant find the drive to do so on my dead server. Legacy system makes it even less appealing. Re-sub to play with all my nice legacy stuff on a dead server, or reroll to a new server and lose all my legacy and other work.

I want to play this game, I want to enjoy it. But when your server is so dead you can't pvp or raid even at lower levels its hard. I basically at this point am paying just to level alts and nothing more. GTN is virtually dead. I'll pay money to transfer my characters, I have some servers with names saved so I can do this. I don't want to pay a monthly fee to level all 8 slots to 50, just to have nothing to do or to become invested in them just to lose all my legacy points or names due to a server change a year down the line.

This is something that should be looked at soon. There are 4+ topics about it on general discussion alone not including suggestion and other places.