Petition: Free server transfers with new servers on Wednesday

I concur...free server transfers.

I vote for this. Forced mitigation a will be really annoying if they start breaking up free companies

signed and 100% supported

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Originally Posted by TouchandFeel

I know this has been brought up in many other posts and threads, but I figured getting a petition out might be helpful.

I strongly feel that free server transfers should be given to the players when the new servers come up on Wednesday and in a way are a necessity to fix the current overpopulation problems.

My reasons for this are as twofold.

- Many players had to create characters on different servers, such as Japanese servers, because the servers that they wanted to get on were locked. While I am not one of these players, I feel that they should be given the chance to be able to get onto the server their friends are on and play with their friends since that is one of the main points of playing an MMO.

- Players being able to transfer servers and move from the overpopulated ones to the new servers is necessary to spread out the player population and alleviate the congestion on the current servers. Just adding new servers will allow new players to come in but the overpopulation problems of all the servers that are already in place will continue and all the players that have been affected by the problems and have been patiently waiting for fixes will not have been helped.

(Please note that this is not a "complaint" and/or "bitching" thread and while I appreciate everyone's support and comments on this issue, please try to keep the comments polite and respectful. Thank you.)

I'm one of those people who also made a thread asking about free transfers. From the answers I got, it seems there is only one thing you can be sure of. If you look at the mog station, there will be transfers, however they will cost. If they were going to give free transfers, it probably would have been mentioned at the same time as the post about the free additional 7 days of game time which might have cooled some people off just a little bit more and maybe people wouldn't be so upset about being forced away from their friends/relatives/whoever they had bought the game to play with in the first place. They are going to get even more money from those people who had no choice but to play on another server if they wanted to at least get some of their moneys worth at all by actually enjoying the game.

I didn't want to believe they would charge people ANOTHER fee to play on the server of their choice when its SE who gave them no other choice. Correction,the other choice would be to not play for 2 weeks until things got ironed out. One could say this is also bad business, seeing as how it looks like they are just leeching more cash out knowing that people will have to fork the money over if they do have people separated on different servers. A few people mentioned on my thread that gving out free transfers to everyone could cause the same clusterkcuf that is already going on, which I can understand. I think though, that if they could do it, they would have to manage where people go so one server doesn't have a massive amount while another is almost empty, making duty finder issues or having the need for a merge. It could be done right since there are other MMOs out there who have managed to do this, but as I saw someone else mention, these companies robably don't chit-chat and share their "secrets" with each other. Either way, this would probably require coding and if its the same jokers who coded the 1017, Twelve save us all.

I was lucky enough to be able to make 1 character on Balmung legacy server since that is the server my boyfriend got placed on because he is legacy. When servers started locking up and NA/EU list started disappearing, we went elsewhere and leveled up pretty high and would like to keep those toons since we're roleplayers and Balmung is one of the unofficial RP servers along side of Gilgamesh. Even though our guildmates from another game are also on Balmung, we'll be joining up with them soon hopefully. We'll be putting money to the side for the expensive transfer price we know is coming.

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To go along with this, they need to add empty worlds that Legacy players are allowed to transfer to - 5 per data center. They should have done that and all this world adding before the shit hit the fan.

Shouldnt we walk before we can run. Let them get the worlds working before we potentially break them again by having everyone flock to the one server?

You have my vote. Please allow free server transfers

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Giving free realm/server transfers to players on overpopulated realms would be the most honorable thing SE could do for their customers.

I'd like this alot, so I can finally join the server my friends are on.

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Originally Posted by Havelocke

Shouldnt we walk before we can run. Let them get the worlds working before we potentially break them again by having everyone flock to the one server?

your logic is flawed. you are using the idea that people WANT to go to busier servers. This is the case usually a year or 2 down the road. But right now people liek my self want OUT of the busy servers where we can never log in! i would happily go with my friends on a lower pop server just so we can play together as well as help eliviate over population on my current server.

i had 3 people buy this game JUST to play with me. they were not going to buy the game at all until i talked them into it. NONE of them were able to get on my server. i feel like a huge jackass