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Free transfers in the future?


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islander
04.10.2012 , 12:09 PM | #371
Quote: Originally Posted by Axontu View Post
The fleet pops are never really a prob for me, it's the 3 or 4 people per planet that drive me nuts. Kinda hard to group for a 4 man if there is only 3 people on.
LOL, yes. When I rolled a new character on Ajunta Pall, I spent three nights on Ord Mantell. Each night there was between 30 and 50 people on the planet.

Coruscant? 80-120.
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joffmonk
04.10.2012 , 04:47 PM | #372
Quote: Originally Posted by Antissa View Post
For those who unsub because they are not getting everything on a silver platter:

If you are unhappy about not finding a group, how the heck are you expecting to solve that problem if you unsub? Its not like it gets easier for everyone else when you unsub. It only makes it harder.

Many people hold this game to a standard that no mmo on the planet has or ever will live up to.

It was the same thing in THAT OTHER GAME for years when you wanted to do the "end game" dungeons there as well. Some evenings you never found any people to do stuff at all.

There is a reason why there is no dungeon tool yet in SWTOR, many many people still believe thats one of the things that ruined THAT OTHER GAME, if you disagree sure. I disagree also.

But grow the F*** up and stop acting like spoiled children.

When I dont get a group I just go play an alt or do some other SWTOR related stuff that is fun.

I have 16 different advanced classes to level up for my legacy. And Ive only done with 2 at the moment. There is still alot of stuff to be done.

"booobeeebooo... I am unsubbing... I dont get my toys! Booobeebooo"

Gimme a break...
its quite simple really, my lack of money filling thier pockets will hopefully turn thier heads in the direction it should have been over a month ago.

Dont tell me to grow up, who the hell do you think are you to tell anyone what they should or shouldnt do with thier money because you dont agree!?
Just because your happy or stupid enough to pay for a single player game doesnt mean the rest of us should follow suit.
Accusing us of being immature because we are making a stand against a company selling us a sub standard product is pathetic and advising us to re-roll every 2 days (have fun spazzy-clapping once the character screen is full) is just moronic!

I have tried my best to give them the time to correct the population problem, but I can only stand to get kicked up the arse a few times before I move the F! out of the way.

The only thing BW/EA understands is cash flow, when that stops or decines, well they had better fix the problem asap before it disapears completly.

Untill the server transfers come along, I wont pay a monthly sub for a single player game, and no one else should be either.

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Archaar
04.10.2012 , 05:00 PM | #373
I really hope they introduce any kind of transfer in the future, I've re-rolled onto Tomb of Freedom Nad in the EU and it's night and day, 170+ players in fleet at about 11:30pm, I switched to my old server and there is 10 people :P

Having people to play with and talk to goes a long, long way to making you want to stick around in a game, they need transfers or merges NOW really.
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Raeli
04.10.2012 , 07:04 PM | #374
So there's been a clear answer now, Bioware has no plans to merge servers, but there will be transfers, free? They didn't state:

Quote:
There is a lot of debate in the community about server population. Any insight on how you guys feel about the population distribution?

JO: We always take feedback from the community and from all kinds of different sources like our telemetry metrics, and take it very seriously. When we hear that from the community, we are listening. We have the plan to allow for character transfers in the future. The legacy system actually is another reason why character transfer is becoming more important. It is one of our biggest priorities right now; that and group finder are essentially are biggest priorities coming in the near future after Update 1.2.

Is there any discussion of merging servers or adding incentives to move players to low pop servers?

JO: No, we’re not going to. Merging servers is not something we are looking at. We have a very healthy game right now, so that is not something we are looking at in the near future. We're always going to look at ways to make sure a server is healthy. There are a whole bunch of different ways you can do that. We're discussing them. We want to make sure players feel like there are enough players on their server to play with.
Source: http://www.darthhater.com/articles/s...ames-ohlen-and

I'm not sure how having under 150 Republic players online on the entire server at peak times can be considered healthy. More and more people are leaving or quitting from my server, what I want to know is, how is this going to be fixed? When transfers come, either a load of people are going to transfer to my server (why would they potentially condemn themselves though? It's dead), or some of the few remaining people will transfer off, only exacerbating the problem.

I'm not bothered how server populations are or aren't doing, but more wanting a clarification on what exactly the plans are to help servers like mine (Niman). The answer given was a non answer "There a whole bunch of different ways you can do that." - Like what, exactly? I would love to know what the plans are. I ask this because my friends and I have put a lot of time into our characters on our server, we don't want to abandon them, so we've been waiting, hoping for news. This has crushed my hope.

If the transfers don't cost, then it's not too bad, but it will still lead to a lot of servers getting a whole lot quieter. If they do cost, then likely it is something we won't be able to do - it's more likely my friends will just give up playing than have to pay to move to another server.

What hope can we have now? I like this game, I want to be able to enjoy it, but it seems Bioware really don't want to make that easy. :/

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tmpearson
04.10.2012 , 07:10 PM | #375
Quit or re-roll.

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CarpLTunnel
04.10.2012 , 08:18 PM | #376
Quote: Originally Posted by tmpearson View Post
Quit or re-roll.
Wow, that was an intelligent response. You probably win many debates with arguments that compelling. Bravo.

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Sandtrooper
04.10.2012 , 08:42 PM | #377
Quote: Originally Posted by tmpearson View Post
Quit or re-roll.
/facepalm



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DiabloDoom
04.10.2012 , 09:23 PM | #378
Quote: Originally Posted by tmpearson View Post
Quit
Most probably, or at least till it's fixed. 12 left, cancelled sub, will play till then.

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wraithaur
04.10.2012 , 09:29 PM | #379
mandalore the no-populationable

AU night time i have not seen a single person on a planet i have quested on for the past 6 levels. There is NEVER more than 2 people on a planet at any time and a max of 14-20 on the fleet.

Transfers need to happen NOW!!!! I'm a hard working husband and father, i get limited time to play, i can't re-level, but i can't play an MMO that is really a SMO (single man online)
"You can run but you will only die tired"

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Hizoka
04.10.2012 , 09:34 PM | #380
Quote: Originally Posted by CarpLTunnel View Post
Wow, that was an intelligent response. You probably win many debates with arguments that compelling. Bravo.
sad thing is that is what people are having to do.