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

during the launch with the influx of people they opened a ton of servers that are now empty.

They are probably going back and forth on just how many servers to allow free xfers off and to where. That along with the impelementation of the feature. They should have had this ironed out prior to launch but hindsight is always 20/20.

i hope they understand that people would rather wait in line for something good, then experience something alone. I personally would for go my legacy , name, to get a server xfer. I will not however go through the story again , i am not an altaholic and it's pretty damning business to expect your customers to re-roll , cause of your mistake.

I'd say not this week but next week they'll try to push out some xfers. If not , they'll lose a huge chunk of people. With 1.3 on the pts, i don't know what they hope to accomplish, since people can't copy characters there anyways.

After thinking about this, I think Server Transfers are a bad call atm. We could very well end up with another 'Fatman" server situation. I know they have said they would do select server transfers but what if they did the following instead:

• Server Merge 50 servers (Same type, same time zone) - July 1st
• Carefully monitor the population for all of July
• Start Transfers Early August (Selected servers)
• Open Transfers to any server Late August

There is the possibility that they haven't been able to work out all the technicalities involved (I would suspect this would be due to legacy system). The problem here is that by now many people have left the game due to various reasons including low population on their servers, it is not certain these people will come back once they allow transfers.

I'm one of those people btw and I'm not coming back.

posted few of my bets :
http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=462372

also concerning a few other things, not just merges. Just speculation on my part though I have no magical inside knowledge

I really wish I knew the answer too. A lot of my RL friends playing this game left because they didnt want to resub playing on a dead server.

Each day that goes by without transfers decreases the population as a whole.

It honestly looks like they're doing everything in their power to kill this game. At least we get more Legacy stuff in 1.3, that is sure to bring in the subscribers.

so the plan is to wait until their is no player base left to tick off? over half my guild has directly quit the game in the past month based on lack of server population, which then makes more people quit.

A lot of people, including myself usually, once they leave a game for a new game, don't return, this is a dangerous time for SWTOR. The game will obviously survive and continue on, but it perhaps will never reach the potential we all hoped for. I have something like 60 days left on my prepaid time and i sincerely hope things are fixed by then because i'd love to resubscribe if i am having fun, but most people are already leaving or left and i doubt more then 10%-15% would come back for a new patch or mergers.

the reason they have not done server transfers yet is simple.. look at all of the three weekends and all of the "the games doing great" posts by the senior members.. If bioware can influx numbers of free users over weekends, which is what they are doing with free passes, they can say that the game is doing better than the fans are complaing (great for PR purposes) but thats not it.. the reason they are doing it is so they can turn around and say "server transfers are not needed, because at peak times there are X amount of people on" when in reality only half that number are on.. once they do this they can charge people to move from the current low pop servers instead of giving it away for free

Presumably they looked at the cost and benefits of doing them manually vs. doing it in automated fashion and concluded the latter was the better option.