I understand the reasoning for wanting to prevent existing characters transferring right away -- but I hope within six months to a year they'll finally open it up. I've put too much work into my existing character to want to make a new fresh character and I shouldn't be punished for wanting to play on a server that is closest to my physical location.

I would actually like to see a dev response to how they are going to handle the timing of opening transfers to all servers for all characters eventually.