What happens if you DON'T transfer?

why wouldn't you transfer?

I don't need to make 'protest characters'...I have eight slots filled on the destination server already, and several other toons on origin servers who feed into the exact same destination server. If those toons not already on the destination server have no place to go...what happens to them? I don't think it's unreasonable to get an answer to that.

I seriously hope BioWare doesn't pull an SOE. But it's starting to look like they will.

Sticky's my friend..

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Character Transfer, Server Populations, and You (Part II)

Hi everyone,

We want to thank all players that have participated in our Free Character Transfer Service. With strong destination server populations, we hope that you’re enjoying the improved gameplay experience and are excited about receiving the Gannifari mini-pet and the 25 Black Hole commendations that we announced as part of the Free Character Transfer Reward Program.

Later this summer, we’re taking steps to further strengthen destination server population. Ultimately, we are working to transition all players to designated destination servers in the Free Character Transfer Service.

To continue to enhance the overall gameplay experience for current and new players, we have eliminated the option to create new characters on selected origin servers. Visit www.swtor.com/transfer to see a list of all the selected origin servers that will be affected.

Later this summer, any remaining characters on selected origin servers will be automatically moved to designated destination servers. We will provide additional details regarding the automatic character transfer process at that time.

For more information, please visit this article.

Thanks again for your participation and support!

The Star Wars: The Old Republic Community Team

What about all our characters above 8 characters ? So I feel a merge is still on the cards , all the remaining origin servers might be merged together in their various categories. So yeah a smaller pool of names is a definite possibility.

Cheers,

BadOrb.

1 month and no official reply, even though another thread was locked down and directed here. Brilliant.

I have 16 characters on 2 servers, and both are being transferred to the same server.
I find it highly unlikely they'll double my available character slots, so are 8 of my characters just going to be deleted?
I will not voluntarily move until this is cleared up.

If you have 16 characters that are to be transferred from 2 different origin servers to 1 destination server, and you've refused to move any of them, merging them onto a new server doesn't address the issue.

They've already confirmed that the remaining characters will be automatically moved from their designated origin server to their designated destination server. That means you go to bed the night before maintenance with your characters on your current server, and when you log in the next morning, presto! they're all on the destination server.

That being said, what is going to happen to the remaining characters above 8? Probably they'll either remain on the origin servers until the next phase of transfers is available, or BioWare will increase the number of character slots per server and they'll be automatically transferred to the appropriate destination server. If you haven't transferred any, I imagine the transfers will be from one origin server first, and then move on to the next one when all of the ones from the first server has been transferred (if there are any slots left). I doubt that they'll be lost, but I also doubt that they'll be opening up any new servers.

Loss of names for a lot of people.

And to be fair the new highly populated servers do have some issues with overcrowding and questing at times.

You will be transferred.

Sorry but just face it. It's going to happen. They aren't going to keep a server open for 2 or 3 people who want to keep their names.

Not trying to be an *** but you might as well face it and take matters into your own hands before they force something on you.

You win

I would at least transfer 8 characters to your destination server before July 31st, otherwise you might not have your pick when they transfer automatically. I doubt they'll let people know what the next step is until after the merge (which could come any time after July 30th).

Imagine if the next step was "any characters remaining on origin servers that can't be transferred to their designated destination server because slots are full will get a free transfer to a server of the player's choice," and they announced that? Everyone would create dummy characters on their designated destination server and get a free transfer to the server of their choice for their "real" characters. While that probably sits well with the crowd who have resisted transfers, it's not fair to the vast majority who already moved and want to transfer to another server, especially if the step after that is paid transfers.