I have a guild full of Legacy players on a Legacy server I am trying to help coordinate. At the same time I have friends who bought the game recently, but they can't even make characters on my server due to the lockout. What am I expected to do here, SE? Am I supposed to make characters on their server to help them out, and then pray that you lift the character creation restriction on my original server and allow server transfers? We don't even know if SE is going to charge for first/early transfer.

If my friends are forced to play on a random server for weeks, then pay $15+ to transfer to my server just to play with me, thats not going to go over well for many people. This is tearing things apart.