Hate to see another mass exodus.

1,700,000 (at launch) - 400,000 (est. trough) = 1,300,000 (lost)

1,300,000 (lost) / 1,700,000 (at launch) = 0.7647 = 76% (lost)

You're absolutely right. However; the legacy system had no significance regarding characters on different servers until 1.2, nor was the potential impact of the legacy system divulged.

They actually said it bottomed out at considerably less than 500k. Reading between the lines it was pretty obviously around the 200-300k mark.

Having played many MMO's with numbers ranging from millions to a couple of hundred subscribers, my personal guess is they had way less than that in actually active players.

But then I've always assumed that since the hey day of WoW that all MMO's inflate their numbers by a factor of 10. It doesn't take Stephen Hawking to crunch the numbers and figure out that millions of subscribers equals billions in profit and there's no way on earth that MMO's are individually making billions. If they were, Blizzard wouldn't be taking 3 decades to replace WoW, they'd have a staff of thousands working round the clock to crank out new WoW's.

This may well be true. Let's agree that it is. So what? The whole notion of paid subscribers = success/failure is moot now. With F2P, Preferred, and Cartel Market the financial security of this game is only partially based on subscriptions. They've already noted how well the game is doing since the switch.

So, we've gotten a bit sidetracked. The point, as it relates to server transfers, is that subscriptions have nothing to do with it. It also doesn't matter if a few people unsubscribe because most people will not unsubscribe over this. OF those that do, a portion will keep playing, just as preferred. They will buy CM stuff either directly or indirectly.

The game will be fine.

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now I need some ice

They may very well be fine. Hopefully the Bioware/EA Execs aren't as nonchalantly dismissive as you.

Ummmm yes they did. You obviously didn't read (or failed to read ((or failed at reading)) the documents that you demanded so furiously. See all the comments from the other people who figured it out? Go ahead. Take a minute to read them. I'll wait...

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I thought that was easy reading... and easy math. I guess stuff like this is just hard for some folks...

But you cannot claim that the legacy system was not in place at launch, or that you were not aware that your two servers were working toward different legacies.

By continuing to build a second legacy on your second server, you chose to have any effort you put into those characters on that server have no impact on your original server's legacy. I can only speak for me, but if I truly wanted to have every character I leveled working toward a single legacy, I would have abandoned the lower characters as soon as I realized that the legacies were different, which would have been at level 1 as the legacy XP bar would have shown a different XP. I can only wonder why you did not do this, but instead chose to continue working on building a second and separate legacy.

I wonder if all the people who are pissed about the transfer charge are aware that a year ago we had free transfers when the servers were merged?

It's pretty amazing how when it was in EA's interest to merge servers that I had around 10 characters transferred for free, easily, quickly, and with no glitches. Now that it's a consumer's choice to move, that free service now suddenly is a complex undertaking that costs nearly $20 per character.

Again = every day since launch. People constantly "threaten" to unsub....some people just like or need attention. The game steadily lost players after launch and bounced back with F2P. It's a MMO....eventually people will get burnt out and quit.