FREE Character Transfers are Coming!

If they follow the "other" game's MO, to move off a dead server will require a paid transfer. The free transfers will be from select full servers to empty ones.

Riiiight, so they should have left people with 10-12 hour wait times in queues at the start of the game, because I'm sure you wouldn't have been here complaining about that too. Right?

Actually, moving everyone from one server to a new one, and shutting the source server down, is exactly what a server merge is.

The problem with doing it that way is it will certainly just cause a mass cancellation. People right now are holding out hope they can get from a dead server to one with an active population. People aren't going to move from an active server to a dead one.

Another flaw in your theory is that with WoW it was free moves to prevent overpopulation, and not so much underpopulation.

Finally you are overlooking how the servers were established in SWToR. Bioware capped servers at relatively low levels. I'm not sure what the reason for them doing this was, because they had the technology to have multiple planet instances within a given server. They could have kept the server quantity at about half what it is now and probably wouldn't be dealing with the issue at the scale it is already. It may have something to do with their login servers. I don't know. All I know this needs to be fixed in about 4-6 weeks for me tops or my patience will be at it's end. Granted I am only one of thousands.

If they follow the "other" game's MO, to move off a dead server will require a paid transfer. The free transfers will be from select full servers to empty ones.

They are trying to get the server transfer software coded and implemented as soon as possible, though. It's no simple task.

You really are suggesting it wasn't a mistake to have the double the amount of servers that Wow has with 1/5 of the playerbase combined to no cross server/lfg tools? maybe they should have waited for with the release so all the servers could have handled more than a handful of players at a time.
Anyways, its the paying customer who is paying the price here for someone elses mistakes in judgement, and usually that kind of thing isn't very good for ones business.

Because that is the only game that's ever used character transfers to address population issues ...

Thanks for correcting him in response to his post stating I was wrong. I don't see how he thought moving characters with all their money and possessions would not 'merge' that into the other server's economy.

The only difference between a server merge and a server transfer is that one is usually under the player's control and one is under the developer's control.

free promotional transfers to specific servers or paid transfers to the server of your choice.