FREE Character Transfers are Coming!

Amazing how some people don't even check before spewing crap all over the place. Here, let me help you:

They did realize it, and even cited it as a reason not to increase launch servers when the community demanded it. They had an industry standard in place to handle the situation. What they had no way of knowing was that the legacy information tied to our characters would prevent the industry standard from functioning properly; it could move our characters, but not without risk of losing character information and/or character corruption. As soon as this was realized, they set to work on creating a method that would function properly.

So you think the WoW population is all from China?

They will most likely have their own servers and to be honest, I get enough irritation with the frenchies spamming on my server as it is, if the chat will be taken over with chinese, that would not be very much fun I am thinking.....so no, that will not fis the populatiopn issue in the slightes.

The point is to have other people to play with, not just people logged onto the server you can't play with.

Insulting? Why do people like you always turn to insults to make up for your lack of a good arguement?

I played WoW at launch and never had this much trouble finding groups after reaching top level. Yes, during leveling there were issues, people all gain levels at different rates of speed so it was hard to find enough people at your level to fill out the run but there were lots of people at top level to play with at all times of the day. Sure it could still take time to get a good group, but at least there were other people to actually try to gather together.


Apples and oranges, this all depends on your definition of low population. I had plenty of people to play with at max level in WoW, I have nobody on my server to play with on this game during the day. It seems SWTOR is creating a NEW definition for the term low population.

Don't get me wrong, I love this game in theory, the story and solo quests are great. They simply created about 70% too many servers and spread out the available player base too wide to make endgame possible for anyone who does not play in a narrow 2 to 4 hour window on their server.


Giving free transfers will not fix this problem in the slightest, people randomly choosing a new server does not gurantee you will get a good one now will it?

What if a lot of transfers are equal numbers swapping back and forth? Foir the server transfers to work they need to actually close most of the servers and to the best of my knowledge they are not willing to do that.

What does someone do if they use the free transfer and still are on a dead server and can't find a group to run with? Give up? Pay their money anyway even though they do not get to experience all the game "should" offer?

Different people each day, perhaps, but the same unsubstantiated conspiracy theories each time. You would think more people would actually look for similar posts before making their own.
They've stated they need to purchase and install the hardware for the task. What's in place currently is incapable of handling the load of general server transfers.
Alternatively, you could wait for transfers to be possible.

WoW quietly merged servers due to low population numbers on more than one occasion.

I don't think judging this last weekends server population drop really holds water. It goes without saying that all MMOs probably experienced a drop to people playing the GW2 beta weekend. Also the game is still a couple months from gold with one or two more beta events between now and then. You should focus on if your server is consistently barren and not just last weekend.

My server currently has 40 people online. Period. No WZs are going, no queues are popping, there is quite literally nothing going on. Summer begins Wednesday, June 20, 2012. That's a little less than two months away. And this is just the closest approximation to "free character transfers". I'll wager they're going to offer transfers from overpopulated servers like Fatman to underpopulated servers like Deadweight. Who in their right mind is going to go from a bustling metropolis to a ghost town? It's not like the gun laws are any different between the two.

YEah when i first heard about this or noticed it years ago it didnt make sense to me either at first but it is true. In the summer time people are on vacation and doing alot of different things, they have less of a set schedule, work and school are all mostly on a schedule that you can work around, going to disneyland or water skiing isnt.

Exaggerate more. Really, it helps your case.

My evidence is not even anecdotal. RIFT had the very same posts, pop issues, and complaints precisely one year ago. The offered free transfers, closed low-pop servers like BW is likely going to do, and voila, problem solved.

The proof is there for anyone that doesn't just want to rant.