Earn Rewards for Free Character Transfers

All your toons on a "destination" server on the indicated day get the freebies. No one else.

You are incorrect. If you read the BW responses in the stickied thread, characters on an origin server, whether they move or not, also get the rewards.

Good luck with that.

From that thread:

"If you haven’t moved your characters yet, it’s not too late. Transfer now to receive these in-game rewards! "

Indicating that you have to "transfer".

The sense of entitlement and lack of understanding some people have towards character transfers makes me want to do unmentionably horrible things to adorable small animals.

For me it's not a sense of entitlement so much as I see a mountain of stupid. I don't feel "entitled" to a transfer. However, transfers are currently available. The coding is there. There is just an artificial barrier between me and the place I actually want to transfer. To me, that is just plain stupid.

Which is exactly why I transferred from Shien to Ebon Hawk--i lost my legacy, which I didn't care anything about, and had to rename 2 toons, but the 25 BH commendations were enough of a bribe for me to transfer to a server I really don't want to be on but will hang for a while until I can pay to move to Canderous Ordo where my 4 other chars are

If you reread her post you will see they are not random words.

What you are not understanding is that when the server population gets low enough they will just FORCE MOVE ebveryone that is left, to a server of biowares choosing, and shut down the server you are on.

If you want to pick where you want to go....that is going to cost you some $$$. In WoW it is to the tune of 25.00 a pop. WIth SWTOR being the second big mmo...i can see them charging 15.00 a pop, if not more. DO you really think your going to get that service for free just because everything is in place to make it so? Man i wish my water, electric, cable and internet worked that way.

Here's the thing though. Server populations were dead before. So, in order to provide a more enjoyable game experience for everybody, Bioware measured server populations and organized the transfers in such a way so as to form a smaller group of servers with much larger and more balanced populations in order to ensure everybody has somebody to play with. The only way that can possibly work out is if Bioware only allows certain people to move to certain destination servers.

Think about it. If they allowed people to transfer to any server they want, one of two things would happen. A), the population would end up still being just as spread out as before, just shifted around a little bit, or B), the entire population of SWTOR would have transferred to Fatman, completely overloading the server and virtually guaranteeing 24/7 login queues. Same issue if they let people choose any destination server from the list: they run the risk that certain destinations get overloaded while others don't get enough of an influx to boost the population. In any of the above scenarios, the population problem still exists in one form or another.

So Bioware gave everyone one choice in order to ensure optimal population balance across all servers. That was their goal with server transfers, nothing more, nothing less. Now that the population IS balanced, if you are unhappy with your destination, you will in the very near future be able to pay a small fee to transfer to the server of your choice, while the vast majority of the population remains happily playing wherever Bioware assigned them. So the minority of people who are unhappy will have the option to go somewhere where they'll be happier without running the risk of screwing up server population balance for everyone else.

I'm enjoying SWTOR, but I'm not enjoying it so much that I'm going to move my lone level 50 toon on a dead server to ANY SERVER EXCEPT the one that has my three other level 50 toons.

The Legacy system punishes the player for playing on more than one server, my lone 50 is on ice until I can get her on my main server.

If this nonsense keeps up much longer I'll just suspend my account and move onto something that is not annoying me on a daily basis. GW2 is dropping soon and I like the look of the next WOW expansion, not to mention my Star Trek Online characters are sadly neglected these days.

SWTOR is not the only toy in the toy box.