FREE Character Transfers are Coming!

Milions of accounts????!!!!!!! There were 1.7 mil active subs 2 months ago. I bet now we are under 700k active players. Maybe a third is on a healthy server, so maybe we can say that potentially 400k accounts want to move? Test was good, bugs manageable. Further more in 2012 character transfer has been tested so many times in mmos, if they did not foresee such event they are really missing something in their dev team.....

Why are you here? We are really looking for a good environment for our beloved game, so please move to your korean game where in a month you'll be ranting on their forums (finally far from these ones).

Well, recent information supposrts the idea that there has been very little change in player subscriptions since the first months after launch, so, we're still looking at 1.7 million active accounts. Additionally, the developers would have to accounts for all potential user accounts; even inactive accounts can be reactivated in the future, and they hope players will return once transfers are available.

I'd be interested in knowing how you determined the number of accounts involved in the Asia-Pacific transfers. You must be a Bioware or EA employee to have that information.

This is either false or goes to prove there's no point in sticking around for the incompetence fest to follow. This game still has huge problems, from design to implementation. There are still performance issues, buggy content, random lagspikes and a poor costumer service. Then there's the slight issue of marketing features that they KNEW wouldn't come out in 1.2. Yes, they gave us a free month but will those features be implemented by the time we have to resub? Odds overwhelmingly favor "No.".

I am (or rather, was) rooting for this game but i can't turn off my analytical brain and rationalize my way out of the obvious conclusion. Their technical team is not competent enough (or the suits at EA will not finance this game properly, maybe realizing their best option is to cut losses and look to their next title) to make this game a success. The huge success this franchise deserved.

All the claims here about "technological solutions" speak as though database transfers to different hardware was like figuring out the Higgs. Trust me folks, it's not. It's all about priorities and right now it seems superfluous content is more important than the gaming experience itself.

Alas, we have the random trollboys saying we're mistaken, the game is getting better by the minute, more people are coming and WoW (why do people insist in comparing this with a 2005 game is beyond me) was way worse when it was released. Well guess what my fluffy trolls, this is 2012 and there are a number of MMOs out there that were released without 20% the technical issues this game had (and still has) with just a fraction of its budget.

Now, before you tell me "if you don't like it, quit", let me tell you i still play my rank 86 Assassin everyday, still finish all my dailies and still hope (yet a fool's hope) things will turn around, because i really love the SW universe and i had genuine fun in this game. I won't, however, keep playing for long, considering right now prime time - and i'm playing Imp side - we have 30 people in IF, i can't find people to do ANY FP at lower levels (and at 50 i'd have to resort to do some emotional blackmail) and the server dies after playing 2h after work, when it should be blooming.

Also, i have 30 days /played with my main character and if you think for a minute it's OK to tell me to scrap it and reroll on a busy server until they roll out transfers, you are EAs dream costumer. And that is not a compliment.

I'm sorry for this long rant, but some opinions posted in this thread are just outright ignorant of the world of IT and the technicalities involved in maintaining an MMO.

Atm swtor really lost many playes the peak was 1.7 millions in february now its below then 1.2 millions and the game still losing players very fast. SWTOR only 6 months old and i cant see good future for this game. WOW already confirmed this month they had 10.3 million players. I left the game and going to play Diablo 3.

I could ask you the same thing, mr Iknoweverything.

to late for me also not renewing after this period good game nice peeps on my server shame its dead now

reroll fatman you dont need to level a toon just join the fun :P

lol you think all of the ppl will safe The fatman? ppl already made decision they going out from game many had different reasons not only of empty servers... i only can be sure they will shut down many empty servers and offer everyone who is in empty server to move. SWTOR now is in critical condition that is fact.

The peak was 1.7 million, and as of last week, BioWare reported no decrease in subs. So, it's currently holding steady at 1.7 million.