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BW could do transfers now but hasn't...why?

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BW could do transfers now but hasn't...why?

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HeavensAgent
05.22.2012 , 10:21 AM | #31
Quote: Originally Posted by navocky View Post
Actually yes - that. They have lots of people working on PR why not put a little more work on something like manual transfers ? They are needed and yes would not change the situation but would at least show that they care a little instead of making more and more promos.
The individuals you speak of are likely incapable of contributing to transfers. PR entails a skill set that does not include db management or hardware development; I could be successful in a PR position, but you do not want me attempting to transfer your character information to a new system.

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NDiggy
05.22.2012 , 10:22 AM | #32
Quote: Originally Posted by Anomorn View Post
You're mistaken. The transfer process began before the servers went live.
Servers went live March 1st, transfers started April 18th and ended April 24th. How exactly did transfers start before servers went live?
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HeavensAgent
05.22.2012 , 10:23 AM | #33
Quote: Originally Posted by Anomorn View Post
You're mistaken. The transfer process began before the servers went live.
He's not mistaken. The destination servers were already populated and Legacies were already established. A system to address this has already been established.

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NDiggy
05.22.2012 , 10:31 AM | #34
Quote: Originally Posted by HeavensAgent View Post
The individuals you speak of are likely incapable of contributing to transfers. PR entails a skill set that does not include db management or hardware development; I could be successful in a PR position, but you do not want me attempting to transfer your character information to a new system.
We don't know enough to say one way or another that performing manual transfers is too difficult for laymen to perform or not. We also don't know which employers are responsible for performing them.

We do know they can be done though, so the question is why haven't they?
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navocky
05.22.2012 , 10:31 AM | #35
Quote: Originally Posted by Anomorn View Post
I see your point, but I assure you, the people working on PR have degrees in marketing and public relations. They're not the kind of people you can sit behind a computer and tell them to start transferring characters.
Yes but you cannot just shove 'hype' into people without any real changes.
Because than even if you make changes you get angry mob by the door, angry mob that was created by you because you overhyped it to such a degree.

Not to mention that doing manual tranfers together with a promo that shows like 500 people at Bioware working all the time and saying how time consuming making transfers is and why, with an input that - in order to help the customers as much as possible - they are also making manual transfers to speed up the process making the game as much fun as possible would be a gosh darn good promo. Id buy such message.

Also I seriusly think that much of bioware hate comes from the fact that they do too much PR when compared to some of their recent work If they fired a few of those people (like the something AWESOME happens button guy from DA2) maybe the situation would be better. Especially if they would fire the AWESOME button guy to hire a new enviromental programminst for DA3 ;-)))
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kidatwood
05.22.2012 , 10:32 AM | #36
I throwing out a wild guess here but I'm guessing that the op who wants them to implement the transfer now would be the same person complaining it was buggy...

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NDiggy
05.22.2012 , 10:34 AM | #37
Quote: Originally Posted by kidatwood View Post
I throwing out a wild guess here but I'm guessing that the op who wants them to implement the transfer now would be the same person complaining it was buggy...
Only if the bug wasn't fixed 6 months into the game.
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HeavensAgent
05.22.2012 , 10:36 AM | #38
Quote: Originally Posted by NDiggy View Post
We do know they can be done though, so the question is why haven't they?
Many valid reasons have been given, some of which are that they cannot perform transfers at all at this point.

You say that the transfer process might be simple enough for a "layman" to perform, and that this means transfers should be enacted now. Yet you readily dismiss valid reasons as to why transfers are not possible at this time. I recommend expanding your vocabulary a bit: Look up the word hypocrisy. It applies to what you're doing here quite well.

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HeavensAgent
05.22.2012 , 10:37 AM | #39
Quote: Originally Posted by NDiggy View Post
Then start with the 3 lowest pop servers. You're telling me they couldn't handle that? Heck, as low as the pops on those servers are, they could probably do 6 or even 9 servers.
And if your server is not included ... ?

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Kourage
05.22.2012 , 10:38 AM | #40
They're too busy firing people and they can't figure out how many servers to transfer to which servers.
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