Please Let us Have Free Server Transfers

[MoonPhaseAlpha]

Yes please, free servers transfers! I've got friends on another server I'd like to play with and couldn't because of the character creation lock. It's not fair to make us pay for it just to play with our friends. We wouldn't even have to consider world transfers if we were able to create characters on the same worlds from the very beginning. I've paid for the CE and now you want more money from me to play with my friends?

Yeah, clever business ploy... I see what this is all about...

[Moheeheeko]

If you disagree with a companies decision and perpetuate it by giving them money you aren't helping the situation, you are in fact 100% encouraging them to continue this behavior.

[DoctorPepper]

I agree with the OP and I also think that server transfers should be governed by time, not money.

Rift, for example, offers free server transfers that are instant and you can do them directly inside the game. The restrictions placed on the transfers are mainly a capped amount of money that can be transferred and a time limit until you're able to transfer again after you do.

I think that in a free to play game, charging for server transfers is perfectly acceptable but considering we're paying a monthly subscription I think we should be able to play on whichever server we want and that it should be as easy to connect with friends as possible. Rift also allows cross-server play as well as cross-server chat so even if you are on separate servers you can play/chat with friends.

I'm not trying to turn this game into Rift, simply using it as an example, when these services were added Rift was still a subscription based game and that was why those services were implemented for free.

[ArkhamNative]

Part of the "problem" is there are too many people on the launch servers. Maybe after "the free month" the population will drop a little, but there are plenty more ready to play. Even just hours after increasing server capacity 50% Wednesday, SE said they had to put the character creation block back in place because so many new characters were being created so fast.

I can see free transfers to the newest worlds (the ones coming after Famfrit, Lich and Pandaemonium), but spots on the existing worlds are in very limited supply. Maybe SE could implement a World Pass program, where a friend generates a code so you can create a character or transfer to that nearly full world, but even those might have to be in limited supply. If not limited by money, then at least a long waiting list.

There are many groups and families now split across worlds. I hope SE considers the situation and can give some guidance and remedy. But there are also very large groups (like Reddit, or RPC) who may have little hope of ever getting "everyone" onto just one world (or even 2).

[Demlix]

If you disagree with a companies decision and perpetuate it by giving them money you aren't helping the situation, you are in fact 100% encouraging them to continue this behavior.

You are correct; however, the question people would ask themselves would be, "Is it worth more money to play with my friends?" And because this game is actually quite good (server issues aside) too many people will answer yes to this question. This would make it worth while for SE to charge for transfers even though it's morally wrong, and this is what I fear.

[SugarGorilla]

They should definitely make atleast the first transfer for free, and it give it a week time frame. I'm in the same boat--couldn't join my friends legacy server so I'm stuck playing alone until they bring the feature up.