Please Let us Have Free Server Transfers

[Adamas]

I'm bringing this up because I have several friends who all bought the game. Some of us came from legacy servers and applied to have our characters transferred. At launch, only some of us made the transfer while some were stuck on the old servers.

Since then our other friends have been unable to join the new servers (with legacy friends). Now we're scattered across various servers and the only way for us to play together, is to pay to have our characters moved (when the server transfer service starts).

If you consider the amount of money we've all paid to play together, please allow us to transfer to the same server without having to fork over more money.

[Adamas]

Bumping this thread... would be cool to hear if more people are having the same problem.

[Kyri]

Though I would disagree with a permanent free transfer, I do agree due to the technical difficulties of making characters the last 2 weeks that once everything is working as intended people who were put in this position(as many of my friends were as well) should indeed have the option to move just one more time.

[Strychnine]

Overpopulated servers would just unbalance even more(pay to transfer does deter imbalances sometimes), especially if it was free. I think it's tricky to how that should work personally.

[Nipa]

We are in 2013. Free transfers are becoming the norm.

And they are waaaaay easier to implement than cross-server partying... (which is becoming the norm too)

[Strychnine]

We are in 2013. Free transfers are becoming the norm.

And they are waaaaay easier to implement than cross-server partying... (which is becoming the norm too)

Each game engine is different, so you cannot say what is easier to implement. Norm yes, easy - TBD.

Free transfers have never been the norm. Only when fixing under populated servers. Not sure you're on this planet.

[PureEclipse]

Maybe if it was limited to characters created before such and such date as a 1 time free transfer due to the server limitations, like have the creation cut off be the 1st of September (so mainly just early access/first week creations)

Not sure how unbalanced things will be, people will leave servers as people move into them, and as always with time in any mmo, population levels vary.

[Deroth]

The free transfer should only be to select low population servers.

That way is win-win:
-Groups of friends/LSs/Free Companies can coordinate to move enmasse lowering population of overpopulated worlds and finally being together
-Individuals that have no attachments can move as well easing stress on overpopulated worlds as well and should clean up performance/login issues for them
-All worlds would have a better chance of a good middle ground population
-The largest LSs and Free Companies would likely stay in place, but with the smaller ones and some individuals leaving then the odds-and-ends members would at least finally be able to create a character on the world they want to be on

[Adamas]

Yeah I don't expect it to be free forever - just free so my friends and I can sync up on the same server. I don't really care which server it is, as long as we can play together.

[AmaliseEntwhistle]

Yeah, this would be nice. I'm in roughly the same situation; myself and roughly 10-12 other people, but we're spread across 2-3 servers because of character creation locks (because Reddit has basically taken Gilgamesh for its own), and we'd like to be able to actually all play together on the same server without having to all start over. Heck, it doesn't even have to be free transfers, to be honest. Just info on when transfers are going to be available would be nice.