Unbelievable...transfers post poned again?

Remember how you guys say, and I paraphrase: "HOW *** U STOOPID DIVS NIVER TIST NETHING B4 U REALISE IT 2 LIVE SIVVERS? FAIL! TRAIN WRECK! SLAP IN FACE!"

Guess what? Its buggy right now and they're testing it. Chill out.

Transfers thus far weren't flawless, even with everybody transfering friend lists were wiped, guild lists were wiped, mail inboxes were cleared, etc. .

Furthermore there's also the problem of whether to allow all destination servers or not. Many people tend to head for the busy servers when transfering, whilst those servers are already hitting full at times. Is it fair for the players already on those servers, to suddenly get an even greater influx of players and risking queue times during peaktime? EA/BioWare may first be looking into perhaps extending server populations even further prior to opening up such transfers.

Well, let's just say; they listened to the community. SGR have been a more highly demanded topic than server transfers over the past year. So you should have done a better job in flooding the forums with server transfer requests I'm afraid.

But their system needs to be able to 1) do it on demand when the player requests it, 2) probably offer different tiers of transfer such as with and without gear, 3) perform the transfer without corrupting character data, and 4) charge you money for it.
And probably most important of all, 5) Customer Service needs the tools for tracking it and fixing it when something goes wrong so they can help you.

Even if their technology currently allows for each one of those steps, it's clear that they don't have them working together in a unified system yet.
Their upcoming copy to PTS effort will be the trial run for it because they can work on it without destroying the live character data.
Once that works, then they'll start offering it for the live service.

I put my sub on hold until transfers become available. Resubscribing will depend when transfers become available and the state of the game.

They are rather catering to the handful of weirdos who want Swtor to be their sex-simulator, where they can dream about Twilek chicks making out while writing their embarassing fan-fiction. They are going to put a ton of hours into re-writing the romance options just so that people have a conversation like:

*No
*Maybe
* (Make out)

...screen goes dark.

I think the whole reason behind this is greed. Some soulless marketing suit at EA probably thinks that they make more money by nailing players to their servers, so that they need to re-roll if they ever want to get all classes consolidated.

Regarding incompetence: Bioware-Austin is for the most part an EA clone which had the Bioware tag slapped on to trick customers. Except for the 2 doctors (who have quit Bioware months ago) the majority of the studio consists of refugees from SOE-Austin and Mythic Entertainment (remember the mess that SWG and Warhammer were). Jeff Hickman started as the head of customers service during the Dark Age of Camelot days and somehow gets to call himself a producer now, probably by being the cheapest option for EA and being a good yes-man.

I seriously hope that none of the people behind this game ever make an mmo again. Unfortunately Rich Vogel (who was responsible for the NGE in SWG which broke the game's back) and who was executive producer for Swtor already found new employment with Battlecry Studios (a sub-division of Bethesda), remind me not to buy their games.

To sum it up: the rejects and failures of past mmo projects somehow managed to become the lead designers for the biggest budget mmo in gaming history and then brought all their old buddies onboard. Those who were not affiliated with this core group only got temporary contracts and the results show the lack of character, the lack of talent and their contempt for their own playerbase as well as for the Kotor and Star Wars franchise.

Yeah, company decision making isn't something some CSR manager is going to explain to you or anyone. It's over their heads and not the sort thing companies of any sort tend to share.

And just because something has been done doesn't mean that it's easy to do. Nevermind that it's been just around three months since F2P which is hardly enough time to make any real decisions from a business perspective. Especially not around the holidays as some people surely got the game as a gift.

Honestly, BW's reasoning is NOT that hard to understand. I'm baffled as to why so many people don't get it.