Free transfers in the future?

My opinion,

Of all the things that would cause customers to leave an mmo; class/faction unbalances, lack of content, poor pvp, bugs, end game, customer service, etc.. I feel the thing that people ultimately care the most about is server population.

Look at any thread involving server populations. These issues hit home to everyone. Fans of the game (myself included) hate to hear about dead servers, or to see the "this game is dying" threads.

Even the extreme soloer who refuses to group or join a guild will eventually get sick of dead planets and servers. People play mmos to progress their character, and to be seen by others. To show off their gear or their skills, to be known. If they didn't, they would play single player games.

Server transfers are an absolute must, yesterday. It's really hard to believe that Bioware let SWTOR fall to the same fate that the past dozen triple A mmo releases experienced. Far too many servers just after launch. Anyone who has any mmo beta/launch experience knows fully that the amount of players the first couple weeks will by far exceed normal numbers one month later. It doesn't matter how good your game is. Your population will fall after release. It didn't used to be this way. But it is now. If your game is good people will wait to play. No one cancelled their subscription the first week because of queues. Thousands will cancel in the next few months (including me) because of low populations.

Complications of legacy is not an excuse in my opinion. Server transfers are just as much a part of mmorpgs as auction houses or guild banks. Bioware should have known from the beginning of development that eventually transfers would be needed. The legacy system should have been coded or designed from day 1, with transfers in mind.

The snowball effect will begin with the next major release. Once players start seriously jumping ship, we go from healthy server pops to 1 or 2 decent servers over night. This effect is currently being slowed by the simple fact that there is nothing else new to go to yet. 2 massive releases are coming up. Hard core Star Wars fans will stick around. But mmo players will not. I'm sorry Bioware, I love this game, but I feel it's too late.

I like the game it's just that levelling ANOTHER character isn't fun for me anymore. And i do love my 50s so i wish i could keep playing them, but my server is dead, PvP queues are annoying and i barely can find people to play with.

Im on EU server Exiles Crystal. Situation becomes worse every day. I see 20-30 max on Fleet, but last Saturday evening it was like 10. The Auction House is almost empty. Forget about heroic quests, no ppl. Warzones end because of not enough players. While questing on Tatooine or Balmora i see ppl amount in range 0-5.

When i rolled on this server, it showed population amount is "normal".

Im too lazy to start from scratch on different server, so its either merge/free transfer cancel subscription.

This was supposed to be MMO, but right now im playing it like some modification of single player RPG.

You'll get server transfers eventually and it will probably be a paid service. They say they are working on it. But remember, it does not hurt business for them when you have to re roll on a new server, it keeps you subscribed.

So until they see a measurable dip in subs and loss in revenue, they won't prioritize it.

Do they expect us to reroll? This is unacceptable. I don't have the time and energy to grind to 50 again because the servers are dead. Other MMO's took a long time for transfers because they had the population and it was just a matter of convenience for the players. But Bioware needs server transfers ASAP or more people will cancel.

I'm not bothered If I have to pay, but we MUST! have Server transfers before any merges are done, its Bioware's choices on launch day that split all our allied guilds up.

I have Friends on other (Better) servers I wish to play with, and I very much doubt a server merge would magically put our two servers together.

Transfers before Merges!

I think a paid transfer is going to be a mistake. There are a lot of servers that are so dead, Bioware should be apologizing for it, never mind trying to make a buck off of it in the process.


We all know this game had a bottomless budget. A lot of us are mystified by some of the really odd things that are obviously needed in games such as this, that are totally absent.

I can see the Legacy system adding a degree of difficulty to transfers. sure. But guess what, thats what you pay software engineers to do - to figure crap like that out. people solve problems like that for a living. With Biowares money, there is little excuse for the delay we are seeing.

Actualy, we don't have a delay, we have nothing really for anyone other than AUS players. Does anyone even work in the public relations department that has the backbone to make any sort of meaningful comment about this? Or are they going to hide in their office until this hits critical mass and people leave for games that have more then 100 people on an entire server?

until all ppl from dieing servers do not cancel subs they do nothing. and transfer must be free coz its not our fault that bw/ea sux.

Is there any news on when character transfers "might" be available?

Id like to know when Soth East Asia free xfers are coming.

It makes litle sense to me to roll out this stuff a long time after 1.2 ships ....