FREE Character Transfers are Coming!

If we are not supposed to take the developers at their word, and if we are not supposed to view independently-gathered population data as valid, then what information are we supposed to use? What information are you utilizing in your analysis of the situation?

History.

Why would anyone take the developers at their word about subs or population? if they werent going to fudge the numbers they would not hide the server populations. Anyone else remember a time when mmo server select screens had the actual populations of the servers?

I'll be honest, I'm not reading 89 pages of arguments and wish lists. I just hope that my guild gets a free transfer off our ghost town server and onto somewhere with a player base. We were placed by BW on our server and I think that the transfer off is owed to us. No, they didn't know which servers would be full and which would wither, but we didn't get our choice to start off with (trying to play by the pre-launch rules) so I do think we should get our transport, intact, for free to a new home. And that includes our Legacy. I've got a lvl 20 legacy "family" that I really don't think I'd try to rebuild in the same way that I did on the first go-round.

I dig the game, I love my characters, but it''s hard to play the entire game solo and stay excited.

Actually, yes, it’s VERY different. EQ had far, far more people on the average server at all times than TOR servers tend to have and EQ’s total population was never a fraction of TOR’s supposed 1.7 Million. (Of course you could do a who all for the first few years of EQ and get an actual server number, my server tended towards 1,000-3,000) Pretty much every MMO that wasn’t a complete failure had much more populated servers than TOR does now. There are too many TOR servers, period.

YOU WILL NOT GET MERGERS. YOU WILL NOT GET MERGERS. YOU WILL NOT GET MERGERS.

It's common sense. Well, for most of us anyway.

It might have something to do with federal legislation ...

I'm excited for free character transfers but I still have one worry. I rushed like crazy to get the name I wanted, on a server Bioware assigned me and my guild to. Now my assigned server is d-e-d, and I'm looking to transfer. I already know my name isn't available on the server I'd like to play on, although I have no idea if its being held by a level 50 or by a level 1 placeholder. If it is just being held by a level 1 placeholder will there be some mechanism for me to file a petition and be like "Look, I'm level 50, I have mad /played on this character, can I have my name?" Or does my cool name just rot on the level 1 placeholder to MAYBE be used for someone's alt one day?

Also how are legacies going to transfer? On my old server my legacy name is in the teens and well developed. On my new server my new gunslinger has the same legacy name, but its only level 2. Will I keep my level 2 version or my level 16 version? Can I just combine the experience of both since they're the same name and all grinded by my toons?

Obviously I don't think we know how its going to work yet, but these are my initial concerns, after the elation at being able to at least get my 50 vanguard out of the BFE server he's stuck on.

This I would agree with. I believe the overall population is strong, but the only way to truly address the issues being experienced on some servers is formal merges. There are too many servers at the moment.

So how would they get away with saying they have 1.7 m subs when they actualy have 1m subs? if it were me i would probably give everyone free subs.