FREE Character Transfers are Coming!

but alot of armchair developers play this game.so they know all about how it goes in terms of server transfers and stuff like that

eather way,ill be sure to laugh at the reality of there free transfers when i see about 95 percent of the servers dead the day it comes out.it will also show that bioware should pay more attention to its community

I have been holding out, waiting for 1.2, got it, was briefly happy then realised I was still playing an an empty server, no flashpoints of any kind running pvp matches once every 30 mins for a max of 3hrs a day with always the same people.

So I figured with the news of the APAC server transfers, server transfers for everyone else are coming soon, I therefore decided to level a new character (on the same server for legacy reasons) as I couldn't really experience end game. And of course, leveling a character on an empty server has alot of downsides too - lack of all the above and group quests. So anyway happy leveling my new character thinking "well transfers soon so it's not all bad".

And now here is where i've lost my enthusiasm - character transfers coming "Early Summer" which in my experience is a very loose time frame however I will wait for the actual release date.

Not that it makes a huge amount of difference but Im much less enthusiastic about continuing playing now as there is currently no real point. Some may suggest rerolling on a more populated server (which is ignorant of legacy, and I know there will be legacy merges or the highest legacy level takes over but who knows what server I am able to transfer to?) some will suggest "quitting altogether, no one will miss you" and they'd quite likely be right as it feels like i'm playing a single player game.

Anyway my overall point is "Early Summer" can be a long times off.

Why wouldn't I realize this. It only makes sense; if you're offering free character transfers to address population concerns, then it only makes sense to move folks to specific servers that are not overburdened but already boast a sustainable, though likely small, population. In doing so you strengthen the population on the destination server without generating lengthy queues. This of course means that if you're offering general transfers as well, those not designed to address population issues become a charged service.

They're not lazy, kid. They literally cannot offer transfers at this time. You're demanding they provide something immediately that doesn't exist. Early summer is when they project they will be able to have the technology in place and functional. In other words, transfers are going to be made available as soon as it is possible to do so.

Well, they do have it.. its just not automated. And takes alot of work to do manually.

Actually, moving everyone from one server to a new one, and shutting the source server down, is exactly what a server merge is.

If you're that impatient, then you might as well cancel your subscription now.

If they did this, the process wouldn't be finished for at least a year. You want to advocate such a task on the off-chance that your is one of the first servers they move? What if yours was the last server to move? Would you advocate they move character by hand if it meant yours wouldn't be transferred until December?

No, they need to get the technology in place to handle full-scale transfer capabilities before offering them to the population.

Bioware why am I waiting till early summer? I am sick and tired of this crap. This is a MAJOR issue, fix it now.

I am sick and tired of 4/5/6v8 warzones.

I am sick and tired of being outgeared/outgunned because imps win every match for the above reason.

I am sick and tired of not being able to EVER find a group for ANYTHING (because at PRIME TIME there is 4-7 people on fleet).

That is just to name 3 issues. This needs fixing now, not next week, not next month and not early summer, now.

Indeed, and as a result what could be accomplished in a short while if they put the technology in place first would probably take more than a year to do manually.