FREE Character Transfers are Coming!

how are they moving millions of accounts,when ther is only 1 million? and they arent moving everyone,just people on horrible servers.

Paid transfers..... great... I can't wait to pay $50 to move the two characters I've avoided playing from my old servers to me new ones.....


Way to penny pinch Bioware....

lol aint this the truth

technically,june 21st is the first day of summer

It may have been about a year in, but WoW certainly did have transfers available while still in classic. I used them.

This is honestly the only way to do it. If they offered free transfers to any server we'd end up with 4 fatmans with 2 hour queues to get in and completely dead servers everywhere else. They need to offer free transfers to help stem the flow and spread the population out over like 20 servers. Paid server transfers for people who really really want to play on a specific server.

What, you couldn't wait for them to announce which transfers will be free and which will be paid, or thse cost of the transfers before you started whining?

If the transfers were FREE, then you could always switch to a heavy server off Fatman were the Pop is high but the queue isn't as bad. As is, if you're on a "good enough" server, you'll either need to pay real money for shorter LFG queues or pay real money to transfer your characters.

It's ridiculous.

All servers suck with the exception of a few. I have characters on some "standard" servers and I could never find a group on any of them. Having 30-40 people on fleet and 5-15 on most planets isn't good enough. I rerolled on two servers that are normally heavy and saved the characters that were on the lower populated servers with hopes of transferring them later. Since there's no way they'll allow free transfers to an already heavily populated server, I might as well delete the toons I've been saving. I will not pay them real money for their poor decisions.

I keep informed of general processes and Bioware's unique difficulties. The transfer process used in other games was insufficient, as it could not deal with Legacy information. Best case scenario the information was lost. Worst case, the character was corrupted. In order to address these issues a new process had to be developed. The Asia-Pacific transfers were the test of that process. In regard to GW2, it will go through it's own growing pains. All titles in the industry do. It won't even represent a significant threat to any existing title until it attains its own mature state six months to a year after its launch.
We understand the issue. Some of us play on dead servers ourselves. That doesn't change the situation. You cannot be offered what does not yet exist.