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

I do not disagree with your deduction, HR. Something must eventually happen to move our remaining characters from the abandoned servers, I have little doubt. (And I was not contesting the time frame you indicated, merely the notion that any announcement had stated any server would be closed down.)

I only posted to report the confirmation I got from Customer Service that characters unable to be transferred now (voluntarily) will not somehow become deleted at the onset of the involuntary, automatic transfers at the end of July (or later this summer). Yes, it's minimally comforting, but I'm at least reassured my characters will not be deleted or frozen because I didn't transfer them before July 30.

Yes when i loged on once this week i saw lodes were shut and locked.

When are paid, open transfers going to be available?? I currently have my toons split across 2 different servers and I'd like to get them all together on the same server now. When can we expect this option to be available to us?

thanks,
Kakgumu

Both servers I have different legacy names that fit the factions as I'm a firm believer in faction loyalty, Darkside evil name, Lightside not so evil name, I was first hit with the fact when legacy came out in the first patch, that they like to force us into playing their way ie. need both Imp and Rep toons on a legacy to unlock ... then there is the fact unlike Swtor or WoW or CoH or ..... you have no options or choice where to play at any lvl .. you have 1 area that fits your lvl ...you must play there .. Swtor any planet any lvl .. at least 2 choices woulda been nice , but Republic Taris ..omg Swtor I could wait to leave Taris , then Rakghouls omg .... shoulda been left in Swtor blown up with Taris , but then we get more with patches .good reason to play Skyrim in April , I came back and my 2 servers that were always standard-heavy population are both on transfer list and both to same destination server *** ?? RPG is about choises ..... in a game driven story that is relying on choices Bio-ware seems to be removing all the choices and forcing our hands. I DON'T want to play on a high population server , spawns, gameplay and game quality are all reduced , all you have is more people spamming chat. I'm wondering what Bio-ware was even thinking closing soo many servers. many of which should have been on the destination server list to help bolster their numbers while not making people wait in Queue on the locked and already over populated servers, and what is their answer when all the people that left till the next expantion because they wanted flight sim space combat , there will be people returning to a broken disfunctional game with the friends they thought they had spread across servers like stars dust after the Big Bang. The answer is clear to me ..... no media support .. TV commersials .... Bio-ware/EA spam your game on TV and you will get costomers ... you fixed it .... now reinvite them to play. and give us choices again!!!

With this thread now with more than 40 pages, it would be nice if Bioware (Courtney or Allison) could give us an update on how the automatic transfers will happen specially for those of us who already have 8 characters on the destination server.

It would also be nice to know what misterious functionality was added to support those automatic transfers.

I honestly wouldn't be surprised if BW still doesn't know how they are going to handle it.

What do you mean they will not know how to do it still that is not GOOD

i agree! ive many high lv toons stuck on the server of there choice !! not mine !! the stuck toons have a legacy lv15 and tons of hours and money invested into game play and would LIKE to get 3 of them to my pvp server!! however BW never answers my question of when if EVER!! that might happen!! my sub runs out in 3 days and as of now i say here is my answer!! in 3 days it is END GAME time no renewal for me! why pay a sub when there is ZERO new content and my lv50 can not transfer out! was fun but was also a HUGE waste of time on a unpolished game that launched just to meet the needs of EA/BW greed! 1.2 and 1.3 are launch patches that should have been included at launch not half a year later !!! and with the $100 expansion 1.5 and only a 5 level cap upgrade its silly as any lv50 can pop lv55 in a day !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GREED!!!! means lots of people leaveing SWTOR for good !!! good bye god luck

Not that it hasn't been said a million times but if the volume counts, I'll put my 2 cents in.

I too am stuck. I have 2 toons on Sanctum of the Exalted. But I don't want to move them to Ebon Hawk. I want to move them to Begeren Colony (which incidentally is another xfer destination server) where my other toons are. Not able to make that move really stopped me from spending time on these two toons.

Please consider allowing us to choose destination server, even if it is just within the same pool as the current list.

I do have 1 question.

With all the conjecture and speculation with name collision and losing beloved character names, do we actually know how bad the problem IS? As oppose to how bad it MIGHT be?

Part of support is an assessment based on facts, not philosophy. Yes, we know for a fact that there will be name collisions. But does anyone know for a fact how bad the situation is? My guess is none of the players do. Only Bioware has that data.

BW, any chance you will share? Because we might be wasting a lot of energy here yapping about some philosophical thing that isn't that common in the end. That might be 1 way to dial down the noise level.... Maybe?