Free transfers in the future?

initial transfers should be free, if not all. The only reason (beyond greed) for charging for this service is to keep people from being willy-nilly about transferring their characters on a regular basis. Most people didn't actually choose the server they were placed on, but instead had it chosen for them because of the guild they were/are attached to. The guild my Main was in is all but dead, I am the last person who even plays anymore. The guild I am in on my other server has anywhere from 10 - 100 active daily.

Just thought it was interesting that I canceled my sub giving a specific reason of being stuck ona low pop server.

About 1 week later I received an e-mail to re-sub for 30 free days.....

If that's any indiciation as to where this situation is going....Im really disappointmented in the way this is being handled. There has been an overwhelming response to this issue and I am sure plenty of subs have canceled.

You can give me all the reasons in the world (legacy, rename, etc...) I would much rather have started at level 1 legacy and/or rename my toon(s) then to simply quit or just play on a dead server.

Bad business on BW's part....

so true, its more or less a slap in the face. Sort of like the first two months being plagued by seriously bad lag, community came up with a temporary fix because they were all but ignoring the people with the issue, then they would keep suppressing any posts that suggested the fix. I am beginning to get fed up with BW, they just are not the same company they were 14 years ago.

They need to start by allowing people from the the 50+ dieing servers to transfer for free to medium pop servers. I highly doubt people from The Harbringer and The Fatman are going to want to leave one of the few places in game that have a thriving population due to people rerolling from servers with nothing to do.

Obviously an option should be made for people on these servers to go to medium pop ones, but few will take it.

So basically, the dieing servers need to be scrapped and shut down. Consolidate the population and then if the game performs well, with time, they will be able to reopen servers for growing numbers.

As it stands now though, the majority of people in this game are stuck in servers that are on the precipice of death.

I deleted all the characters, sick of waiting on them to do whatever it is they are doing. 6 characters in all, ranging from 16 - 31. A lot of time wasted, thanks for nothing Bioware.

I think it's clear at this point, as I was looking at the populations of other RP/PVE servers, that Bioware could essentially merge all of them, and not have a problem with population. Or, merge them into two servers. I'm stuck on an RP server that doesn't RP. I find it tedious to level yet another character to 50, and gear them in full columi and some rather decent PvP gear just because the server populations are low. I understand this is laziness, but so what? They are offering server transfers in Asia, why not in US, or EU servers? If you can do it on one set of servers, you can do it on them all. Step it up Bioware, please. I love Star Wars, and I love this game, but if things don't improve, I'll wind up going back to WoW, or onto something new, but I don't want to do that.

I'm no too sure if harbring or swiftsure will still be heavy servers after most of the aussies leave for an oceanic server. Thus, bw should allow some servers to xfer into those servers to offset the aussies leaving the server. BW then should focus on making another heavy server and just pick a medium server for that purpose. Keep repeating merges until you have mostly heavy servers with a few medium servers and add servers as needed. The way I see it either BW starts merging servers or people will start to quit cause very few people who would like to re-level especially if they have many high level characters.

You're going to have to wait and see just how many Australian and Asians transfer, and from which servers 1st. Seriously doubt it would be free.

TERA looks pretty good so far lol

Yup I have been a staunch supporter of the game since the beginning. I love the game, I have two 50s, three buffs unlocked, legacy level 26, and I am leveling up some crafters now. However I get getting absolutely tired of 2 hour ques during peak times, having the same worthless teamates in pvp over and over again, and generally having most of what I want from end game (pvp) be dead. We need to be able to transfer, and for me even a cross server que doesnt bother me at all. Something needs to be done asap.

I wish we could get some dev feedback on an ETA.