Free transfers in the future?

I already re-rolled twice. Bad luck for servers. Always not so many players by some time. And couse i want play MMORPG, not KOTOR 3, i want free transfer for my main and toons!

this really needs to happen. many of the servers are at low or not fun population. either server merges or transfers need to happen. starting to get too quiet.

The silence bothers me a lot also. It's very political, and that makes it that much more annoying.

The bottom line is there are a lot of servers that need to go away. Thats not admitting defeat, thats admitting that BioWare over estimated the demand in DEC. Big deal, lets move on and fix it!

Diablo III is going to have a lot of interest, I would hope that this issue is addressed before D3 drops, as there are lots of people all alone in SWTOR on ghost servers looking to have fun.

yesterday on my server i was qued for pvp for around 6 hours , our server is so dead that you can only pvp during prime time , and even then the only guarantee that the que will pop is if its on the weekend

Im playing on The Kumumgah, almost impossible to find ppl for FP and Heroic Q's.

Bioware does not have the technology to merge or transfer people to different servers. They earliest they said they might be able to transfer people is at the end of April. So far its taken them a month just to get 30 level 50s to the PTR. At the end of April, there won't be a need for server transfers because all the low pop servers will have died anyway


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I might just quit the game because my server is pretty much dead and i just can't stand levelling anymore with 3 50s already.

Why do you want to leave the game you are the one who can try and make the game better by asking them to add more stuff in the game and that to make it more fun than it right now if ou no what i mean ok.

I really think Bioware erred in opening up so many additional servers right after launch. With the exception of a few servers, the queues were really not that bad -- 10 maybe 15 minutes here or there. I know folks complained at the start about having to wait a bit to get onto servers, but I think give the situation we have now - waiting 10 minutes to log is a heck of a lot better than running around on underpopulated/empty worlds.

Why they couldn't have just released only a few extra servers to start, or released servers gradually over time,as needed, I don't know. They certainly over-budgeted on the number of servers "needed" for this game. I think it's an even bigger oversight to release so many additional servers and dilute the population when you have no plans or means to merge or transfer players should issues arise later!

Server population/density is critical to the success and viability of an MMO. Without question, one of the main selling points of an MMO is the idea that you're constantly meeting and interacting with real people, building social connections between subscribers-it's what helps keep players invested and committed to the game in the long-run. It's very hard to sustain an MMO, when players are so focused on how empty and lonely their social playing experience is.

I read a lot of accounts of folks being stuck on servers with just almost unfathomably low numbers and I really feel for those folks. I feel very grateful that my server seems very healthy and much more active that a lot of other servers. FPs, WZ, and Ops are all possible on my server usually without too much trouble on most nights. Sure it's not perfect - I'd love to have more folks, but I'm glad at least my server has a functionial GTN and enough folks to run things or bump into out in the world. Unlike a lot of other folks, I haven't considered let alone felt the need to reroll somewhere else.

I was hoping the Guild Summit would bring some much needed news or solution to this issue. Sadly, it appears that the legacy system is a huge roadblock to allowing mergers or transfers; until they have a system in place that can allow folks to transfer or use the same legacy name on a server - transfers won't happen. I don't know what sort of timetable they're looking at to fix this, but I hope it's something resolved quickly.

There seems to be a lot of folks who were hoping that 1.2 would fix or at least mitigate this issue and had thus far resisted the urge to reroll (or unsub in some cases). A lot of the most recent additions to my guild have been folks rerolling from other servers, where they struggled to find the right/enough guild options.

I wonder, now that we're likely looking at least another 2ish plus months, maybe even more, before transfers can happen -- are more folks giving up on their current servers and rerolling someplace else? Seems like at the moment, if you don't want to wait God knows how long, and want to keep playing -- it's really the only choice. I'm not entirely confident that the changes in 1.2 themselves will bring enough new/returning subscribers to reinvigorate dead servers.

Even with more stuff my server would still be "dead".