I need server transfer now!

[Velthice]

I swear you guys have done everything to avoid giving us a date (not to mention "oh sorry it's oct. already & we said sept. but Its coming early this month!!!" We see through it and its getting kinda annoying... Seriously either open the damn thing or give us a date. You're not "keeping anyone in suspense" & we're really getting tired of this wait.

This pretty much hits the nail on the head. I was excited at first but now I'm just genuinely annoyed and frustrated. I'd really like to know if I'm wasting time I could have spent playing with my friends on another server playing my legacy character by myself in preparation for server transfers.

[solu9]

why do legacy players want to play on non-legacy servers?

because their friends do? why didnt your friends choose a legacy server? It is most likely because they wanted a fresh server with new characters. It was more important for both you and your friends to keep your character/play on a fresh shard THAN it was for you guys to play together anyway.
the restrictions were known beforehand, and many players deliberately chose servers because only new characters would play on them for the forseeable future, otherwise they could've started on a legacy server.

Absolutely, because we had a choice from the start of phase 4 through to the 2-3 weeks post release, right? All the servers were available and the choice was absolutely free to be made. And we, with our nefarious plot, strategically chose the server we're on now.

[ArkhamNative]

why didnt your friends choose a legacy server?

Before launch, a few new players I know just wanted to be part of a fresh, new start. That seemed very understandable to me.

But now, speaking for the small group I'm in, we have the opposite situation. We have found friends on a legacy world and we've made plans to move our new characters there. The new world players are now into the higher levels so they don't mind the idea of other high-levels. (It's not much different than many new worlds now, and the newness has worn off.) So I'm also moving my characters to that other legacy world, too. Everyone is happy.

The wrinkle is that currently legacy worlds in the NA/EU data center are some of the most congested worlds already. (Most appear at the bottom of the worlds list during both EU and NA prime times.) If people can't move off, and others can freely move on, then the current legacy worlds could see the return of very long queues, new character creation restrictions, even 1017s. I wonder how many people above server maximum SE will allow before they close the world to transfers. Or would SE would consider opening a new legacy world to relieve congestion. If they do it at the last minute, people won't be able to plan and move for free.

[Hillside_Strangler]

Sorry if this has been asked before, but I made a character on a legacy server at the start of 2.0. Is it true that I will not be able to transfer off of that server onto a new 2.0 server?

[Tanaya]

Sorry if this has been asked before, but I made a character on a legacy server at the start of 2.0. Is it true that I will not be able to transfer off of that server onto a new 2.0 server?

Indeed. You cannot transfer from a Legacy Server to a new server under any circumstance.

[Timbob]

Rather then complaining that you cant play with your friends because you are on a Legacy server, simply have them transfer to YOUR server. From what I have read though legacy servers can not transfer from a legacy server, standard servers can go TO legacy servers. Tell your friends to transfer to the Legacy server you are on during the 5 days of free transfers if it means that much to you.

[Mordicai]

Well, I'm starting to think we've hit the mystical "mid-september" again. Its the 7th of Oct and we still don't have a date.

I would prefer the Producer just bloody well say when it will happen, not give vague pronouncements about "early Oct" then "soon" which I imagine will become "Early nov" for which they will all be very sorry and apologise profusely to the players.

If we had a realistic timeframe from the onset, I would have just abandoned my character and started over again on the server my friends were on, but since we're playing follow the bread crumbs, I've been unlocking all the jobs, lvling up all the tradeskills and preping my guy to transfer. For almost a month and a half.

[Becken]

why do legacy players want to play on non-legacy servers?

because their friends do? why didnt your friends choose a legacy server? It is most likely because they wanted a fresh server with new characters. It was more important for both you and your friends to keep your character/play on a fresh shard THAN it was for you guys to play together anyway.
the restrictions were known beforehand, and many players deliberately chose servers because only new characters would play on them for the forseeable future, otherwise they could've started on a legacy server.

By the time they started playing they was not able to make a character on my server and now they are 30+ with time into the characters in them, but they only play about 3-4 hours, so i'm not asking them to start over and they wont ask me to do the same.

[gigi_frana]

"early Oct" then "soon" which I imagine will become "Early nov" for which they will all be very sorry and apologise profusely to the players.

Solid project planning by SE

[Warlyx]

By the time they started playing they was not able to make a character on my server and now they are 30+ with time into the characters in them, but they only play about 3-4 hours, so i'm not asking them to start over and they wont ask me to do the same.

they can transfer to your legacy server.