Free transfers in the future?

What is really the point of allowing transfers and keeping servers? It's a bit like trying to heal a deep cut with a bandaid instead of stitching it. Not saying its a bad thing, it'll give opportunity to those in ghost servers to move to more crowded ones, and the oposite for those that feel its impossible to login. But then said ghost server will be even worse, and Im sure those looking for a less crowded place wont go to ghost ones either. But it'll still be there. Why?

.... that makes no sense, you have no clue on what you are talking about.

And when we have to reroll in order to enjoy the game, well thats not a good sign isnt it?

There is this perception that when you close servers, your game is dying. It sends a signal that new people won't come to it, that existing players won't look to rejoin it. I do understand this on some level.

Let's say you are inactive for 3 months. You come back and these two scenarios can occur:

1) You are on your old server but it's really, really dead. However, you are notified you can transfer - for free - to any other server you wish.

2) You come back after 3 months, but you can't find your server on the list. You now have no idea where your character is, and have to go through great trouble to discover that your character was merged onto server X.

Who's more inclined to stick around? The person in scenario 1, or 2?

It's just too bad they so far overshot North American server numbers. They tried not to, I dare say it's impossible to get it perfectly thanks to all of the original load of people. WoW had this problem too...

There is no guarantee you will be able to transfer to any server you want,generally,they only have a handfull of servers you can actually move to for free.So the chances of you being able to move to a heavy server,is not very good if they follow the same model other MMOs have.So if your planning on re-rolling on a heavy server and moving toons there later,dont be surprised if you cant.Dont say you werent warned...

They have server transfers (Asia or something), and let's be honest here, it's not like the technology is super secret impossible to code or anything. It's a matter of priorities and allowing players to do it.

It's great that you re-rolled and you think you lost nothing, however, the other side of that is, why would I re-level all the blue/purple recipies in armstech, biochem, etc... when the point of grinding out level 15-45 recipies was for my own alts?

re-rolling on another server is not the answer,i wish people would stop suggesting this!

My biggest beef (and I'm posting it again) is the lack of official communication. I posted this morning to the suggestion box that BW put up an official news brief, forum sticky, blog entry, etc on what they're actually doing to address this situation. I received a *very helpful* reply that pointed me to links to the APAC server transfers. Had I read those already? Nope. Know why? Yep... I'm a US player. Silly of me to think two threads about AP players didn't apply to everyone... oh wait.

Of course, after that player-posted reply, the thread was closed by a mod with additional links to the same unanswerd-by-bioware threads we've been reading these last couple weeks.

I really enjoy playing now that I've re-rolled on a higher-pop server, but I'm still not happy that I felt I had to do it, especially when it seems it's up to us, the players, to hunt and search to find answers to questions we feel should be readily available via official Bioware media.

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Here is the big question. Will I only be able to transfer 1 of my 4 level 50's (soon to be 5) or will I be able to transfer them all for free?

I say merge. There is only 1 or 2 high pop servers so I can't see those people moving to low pop servers therefore low pop servers must be consolidated.

Also the server list sorts by # of chars by default so your server would be on top of the list (real hard to find)

I really can't figure BW out, they do an awesome job with the games they give us, but when they do an MMO with forum, it's like they are dead.

Is it really that hard to get 1-2 employess to focus on the forums and actually making the subcribers feel like we're getting something for our money....I'm really getting sick of the non-reply by BW, even tho i am a huge fan....

oh btw: I WANT A SERVER TRANSFER/MERGE NAAAOW!!!

Totally unrelated to the issue of transfers, but it shows that their customer service issue is completely deep seeded. I had an issue with a bug they have known about for a while now. I fell off the Balloon in the Dune Sea half way through the trip because I bugged out. They responded to me saying that they know about the bug, and there is nothing they will do for me. My first thought on that is that, while yes they responded quickly, there was a total lack of care on their part about this annoying issue effecting their players. The second part is that they expect people to just deal with the issue, attempting whatever it may be over again, with the hope that you may get lucky. Not sure about anyone else, but I read into this as being a disconnect from their customers. This is across the board too, so how could we the customers, expect anything else?

wow really? lol...

I too just decided to "deal" with it, I re-rolled and got rid of the clutter of having toons on separate servers. First off, we have no idea what they will even offer, if anything at all. Secondly, we could hope that all the items, credits, and experience (both xp and Legacy) would also transfer, but they have said NOTHING about this. So good for you, you took one for the team, and were able to get over the annoyance of having to re-roll to another server, I am utterly impressed at your resolve.