Free transfers in the future?

The server Niman is dieing fast and there is no way I plan on re-rolling to another sever not after the amount of time and effort I have put into the characters on this server. Its currently prime time 6PM on a weekend and there is currently only 38 people on fleet. If they do not give us free transfers soon I will have no choice despite liking this game but to cancel my subscription and find a new game to play, its not worth the hassle.

I'm in Ahto City and the population has gone from Standard to Light since I've joined... there's no-one around to do Heroics, so I end up leaving them. Worlds are dead but I'm a casual player because of the hours I work so it's taken me a while to get to level 34 and I don't see why I should have to reroll simply to find a more populated server.

With the server I'm on, I'm having trouble believing this is an mmo.

What disappoints me the most is that they appear to be unprepared to deal with the most common and pervasive challenge that every single MMO since the dawn of time have experienced.

Surely there is some form of best practice to deal with this - both from a communication perspective and from a management perspective.

While different MMOs experience a different timeline for this decline, they all DO experience it. The math is not complicated to figure out - capacity vs. visitor equations are used in many other industries to direct expansion and contraction of franchises/outlets etc.

Not only is is wasteful to keep virtual servers running for a small population, it is also directly encouraging players to leave the game.

And the silence from EA/BW about this is deafening - it's poor business management to NOT be prepared for this, to NOT have a communication/community strategy for this and to NOT have the mechanics of population and server management already prepared for this.

...I'd love to be mistaken in my assessment here...all it takes is a few words to reassure everyone if this is in the works...

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You really think they'll just let people transfer for free off server where people are crying over a 60-40 disadvantage? Trust me, that's all it is at the very most. Your side is just choosing not to PvP and they can't force them to. You transferring off makes the imbalance worse.

That's a big reason why transfers cost money. Too many people will use a service if it's free. Now if you're willing to pay for it, more power to ya, but I doubt they'll even offer paid transfers till after they've dealt with the extreme low pop servers. At least they shouldn't.

Is in effect dead. 11 people logged on Imperial fleet at 10pm EST. This is a Eastern server as well. Cant sell anything, cant find groups and I can not find the effort to reroll a toon right now. Next month Diablo III comes out. can't wait for something to do with my gaming time and dollars. Good luck SWtOR! you are gonna need it.

TOR the only MMO where the community managers tell you to reroll if your server is dieing instead of looking into fixing there dead servers~

I would like to have the option for a character transfer, free or paid. I don't mind paying.

same here, dont mind paying for it just give me the option

It does feel a lot like a single player game. I haven't done much mmo stuff at all on my server. The one time I did was a group quest and that was pretty early during the game. Now, some 3 months later, I haven't got to level cap on either of the toons I started, mostly because I am not playing the game for long stretches of time. It didn't really grab me yet (and the 10 mins ress timer after 4 deaths is a real turn off).
Whenever I am questing in this game, I hardly see any other players around. Those I see are never in groups and also solo playing this game. The interaction between other players, when it happens, is a challenge request for a duel, not an invite for group quests or whatever.

A simple mechanic like WoW's LFG could solve a lot of problems. Cross realm activities to bring the masses together. It could make a big difference. Ofcourse, the playerbase has to make use of it. If they don't, as like now in lots of cases, any mechanic is a failure.

Being restricted to 1 realm is what made WoW boring some time ago. Being able to get into a balanced group fast to do dungeons and raids made it more interesting.
Many MMO's died trying to be different from WoW. I really hope this game stays alive and not turn into an FTP MMO with a "buy ingame goodies for real cashies" kinda game (LOTRO style)

we need server transfers to play with friends!!