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FREE Character Transfers are Coming!

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TalkingDinosaur
04.29.2012 , 06:27 PM | #411
Quote: Originally Posted by KaptainPlanet View Post
OR my conspiracy is bioware hired a fleet of droids to spam complaints about the game on GW2 those making the swtor community think twice before switching.

On a real note swtor has failed greatly and needs to step it up
Yeah and I'm sure BW was also behind the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Russian Sleeper Cells.
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Oofpez
04.29.2012 , 06:34 PM | #412
Quote: Originally Posted by TalkingDinosaur View Post
Yeah and I'm sure BW was also behind the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Russian Sleeper Cells.
You forgot to mention that BW was also the second shooter on that grassy knoll in the JFK assassination.

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Rawhyde
04.29.2012 , 06:52 PM | #413
Quote: Originally Posted by DarkDisturbed View Post
So if I understand this correctly, Bioware will be doing the exact opposite of what they should be doing.

Low population transfers to high pop servers? ***?
How many people on the high pop servers do you know that want to move to a low pop server? I know of exactly none.

On the other hand I know of many people who either do want to go from a low pop server to a high pop server. Or worse ... have flat out quit because of how boring the small servers are.

This isn't a little bit of whining to try and get things done ... this is a flat statement of fact: people have and are quitting over this. Of my RL friends who played this game when it started, 1 full guild has disbanded (a guild that has gamed together for years in other games) to find more activity and 1/2 of those people cancelled instead of waiting any longer for xfers. I'm pretty close to the same thing.

We aren't saying "let us freely xfer to any server, regardless of population". If the server gets full enough to approach queuing levels, then sure, stop xfers to it. But let us consolidate and let us do it SOON rather than watching the attrition continue.

If Legacy is so damned hard to xfer, then this process should have been put in place before Legacy was released.

Meh, whatever, put me in the "I have enough friends still playing for another month of subscription ... but I'm having to re-eval that condition every single month" boat.

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tloops
04.29.2012 , 07:22 PM | #414
Quote: Originally Posted by HeavensAgent View Post
If they did this, the process wouldn't be finished for at least a year. You want to advocate such a task on the off-chance that your is one of the first servers they move? What if yours was the last server to move? Would you advocate they move character by hand if it meant yours wouldn't be transferred until December?

No, they need to get the technology in place to handle full-scale transfer capabilities before offering them to the population.
i just propose they at least start with the lowest pop servers and get a jump start on it. they are not moving everyone,just the worst of the worst to start.didnt they just move 20,000 people on asian pacific servers in a week? your timeline is way off. and i think i speak for everyone else youve given a jerky respone to,grow up and stop thinking you know evrything,cause ya dont !
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CaptainDil
04.29.2012 , 09:24 PM | #415
Quote: Originally Posted by Mrpoodles View Post
GREAT NEWS!!!


hope people stop making posts about it now and be happy for once.




you got what you already had coming people now relax and stop with the posts.




oh no what next to post about?


HAHAHA ok some empty promises. Yeah ok. In months. Yeah games gona be dead by then

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Moofausa
04.29.2012 , 09:47 PM | #416
Server transfer to ANY server should be free, or just merge them.
It's not like we didn't already pay for the past 6 months of beta....

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Iboga
04.29.2012 , 10:24 PM | #417
Quote: Originally Posted by ViperI View Post
"Early Summer?" Sorry, too little too late.
This... the low population server issues have been going on since a month or so after launch... there is no excuse to take this long to tend to them... by the time they actually do this game is going to be a graveyard...
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HeavensAgent
04.29.2012 , 10:54 PM | #418
Quote: Originally Posted by Iboga View Post
This... the low population server issues have been going on since a month or so after launch... there is no excuse to take this long to tend to them... by the time they actually do this game is going to be a graveyard...
So what do you propose be done? Server transfers are the developers' top priority at the moment.

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amantheil
04.29.2012 , 11:11 PM | #419
Quote: Originally Posted by DarkDisturbed View Post
So if I understand this correctly, Bioware will be doing the exact opposite of what they should be doing.

Low population transfers to high pop servers? ***?
And you're basing this assumption on what exactly?

http://www.swtor.com/blog/community-qa-april-27th-2012
Here's what they said in the thread where they announced it (my caps):
Quote:
Dallas Dickinson (Senior Producer, Live Services): We will be rolling out our Character Transfer Service in early summer. First we’ll have some targeted free transfers from/to specific servers, but that will be followed with a broader system where you can either take advantage of free promotional transfers to specific servers or paid transfers to the server of your choice. We know everyone has more questions about character transfer, and we’ll reveal more details closer to the launch date.

DrakeAssaShin: What is being done to address low population servers?

Dallas: The Character Transfer Service, as mentioned above, will be offering free transfers from/to specific servers. This should allow the most motivated players to get onto a higher population server.
They've never said it will be high-to-low, low-to-high, medium-to-low, high-to-medium, full-to-really-full or exactly what they're doing.

Basically, here's what we know.

a) there will be free transfers from some servers to other servers.

That's it. That's the list. Everything else is just speculation and guesswork.

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amantheil
04.29.2012 , 11:13 PM | #420
Quote: Originally Posted by Iboga View Post
This... the low population server issues have been going on since a month or so after launch... there is no excuse to take this long to tend to them... by the time they actually do this game is going to be a graveyard...
Perhaps if you keep complaining about it enough times, they'll invent a time machine, go back in the past, and have them ready for now.

Seriously, constantly complaining that it should have been available at launch or they opened too many servers at launch or whatever is pointless. It's not going to change what happened previously. What's done is done...transfers will be ready when they're ready.