FREE Character Transfers are Coming!

so bioware is actually encouraging killing off low pop servers

i dont know,in my opinion.bioware needs to hang there hat up to the mmo business and stick with single player rpgs.cuz they sure arent very good at the mmo thing

They'll roll out transfers when they can. The have to expand upon the tech they put in place for the Asia-Pacific transfers in order to accommodate the load they expect in a general-use situation. They've still got plenty of time.

It's an accepted practice in the industry to consolidate the populations of low-activity servers in order to establish a fewer server boasting more active communities. There's nothing new or bad about it.

active community?

i guess,but you arent going to find many servers with an active community when free transfers roll out.maybe on like 3 servers,but who wants to play an mmo with only a couple servers worth rolling on

i know i dont

Why not? A lot games boast only a single server. Total number of servers has absolutely no impact on game play experience. Besides, there a larger population than you believe; stating there would only be 3 servers is a severe understatement. There are at least a dozen active server communities even before transfers.

The operative word being "guess".

Dozen? Two-thirds of U.S. servers are at standard population at peak hours.

This is needed, but too many people are leaving, my server use to be well populated and noticed this pass week we decreased by 100 players on the fleet, we are around 80 players at the fleet now, its just not worth it maybe I'll come back to the game later but I mean.....more people more fun, less lag lots of people pvping like 100v100 is where the fun is. Once my sub is done I'm taking a break from the game. I'll just see how guild wars 2 is a little after launch, if its good and popular I'll get the standard edition for it.

I agree, but some have a much more weighty definition of what constitutes an "active" server.

You will be paying to go to the server of your choice don't be fooled people. "Free" transfers will be limited to a list bioware will limit these transfers to. The fact that every sub isn't being offered free one time server transfer per character over xxlvl, is simply them telling me to cancel my subscription. The game is pretty damn good, dont get me wrong, but bioware must have thier head's up thier #*@, with GW2 and Diablo3 coming out it's gonna be very easy for those of us on the fence about staying and "dealing with" the server population issues to just cancel. Use your brain tho, it's called "spin" if you aren't media savy. By simply putting the word "free" out there in the article, that key word can be latched onto and argued by morons to divert the attention away from the subject matter, despite not arguing about what is actualy being given free.

"is swtor the WoW killer"....."no, swtor is the swtor killer"