FREE Character Transfers are Coming!

So were ranked warzones I heard...

We need DATES...not more empty promises.

Why is that an issue? It's standard for the industry, and for good reason. They need a method, for example, of preventing everyone from simply transferring to the Fatman. They need some control of population movement in order to properly redistribute players as evenly as possible across the servers they wish to focus on.

Ranked Warzones are coming...

Any why do you want a date? So that you can QQ that they broke another so-called "promise" when the typical MMO time-frame is achieved?

Given the way people reacted when ranked WZs were pulled out of 1.2, I'd be shocked if they ever provide a date for any feature again.

I'm going to play GW2 also, and Tera, and Mists of Pandoria, and anything else that hits the gaming market. Why? Because I think it's foolish for a true "gamer" to limit themselves to just one title. I play them all! If they're fun, I continue playing. If I'm not having fun, I try something else.

I am enjoying SWTOR. It's a fun game. But to limit myself to one game doesn't make the game of my choice superior, it makes me narrow minded when it comes to gaming choices.

It does demonstrate why companies in this industry hesitate to even offer approximations.

I'll bite.

First, people care about the profitability of the game as it has a large impact on the future of updates and expansions - games that lose money don't add content (and may even be closed) while games that make money add content. People invest a lot of time in MMOs, and don't want to feel like they are investing time in a game with no future.

Second, you yourself pointed out that having populations and activity drop after the initial launch is normal and to be expected. So if every player knows this happens, why didn't Bioware foresee this issue and have a plan in place to deal with it at launch?

Finally, why do you feel it ok to call people out for not re-rolling, yet don't feel it is ok to call out Bioware for not having anything in place to deal with population issues today?

None of which is to say your final comment doesn't have merit, in fact it is the only one that does. At the end of the day the game is what it is, warts and all. If people don't like it, they should refuse to pay for it, though I feel they have every right to express why they don't like it without others calling them names.

I personally re-rolled months ago and still mostly enjoy the game while believing EA / Bioware are still willing to invest in the future. Even so, I may let my sub lapse when my time expires if at that point I'm no longer enjoying the game.

Guess I will be back when this happens... Have fun everyone =)

Well said. I can't wait to get my grubbly little hands on Diablo III, but I have no plans to leave SWTOR. Yeah, I won't be around on SWTOR as much for a while, but a break and an occasional change of pace is a good thing.

They did, but the systems currently in place in other games, and in SWTOR at launch, do not account for mechanics like the Legacy System. The extra data involved rendered the existing systems incapable of performing the task. When this was realized, the developers set out to define a way to transfer characters that wouldn't negatively impact character information.