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So, I started  a transfer yesterday, literally minutes after Cougar announced it on the stream (11:30ish AM), and it is now 7:34 AM the following day. That's 20 hours waiting for a transfer. Is this normal?
 
There's no support section for transfers, so I can't open a ticket to ask if there was some kind of problem, so what do I do now?
 
Edit:: As of now, I've been waiting 28 hours. ^^	
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I think we say to give it 24 hours, if still nothing contact our CS team and use a category for account issues.
 
We're keeping an eye on the transfer queues as well.	
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			BAM!#completefaithincarbine	
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We're keeping an eye on the transfer queues as well.
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How are they looking Anlath? I'm sure they're filled to the brim.
 
I was surprised to see that it could take up to 24hours, while not downplaying the complexity of the process, i'm surprised it takes so long given that it's a software, automated and tested.
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Congestion is increasing the delay. In a normal scenario (like before we announced the free transfers), moving a character was a matter of minutes. But obviously after making transfers free, many players wanted to transfer at the same time so transfer time increased dramatically.
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Congestion is increasing the delay. In a normal scenario (like before we announced the free transfers), moving a character was a matter of minutes. But obviously after making transfers free, many players wanted to transfer at the same time so transfer time increased dramatically.
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Oh, there is an easy way to solve that.
Create a new stickied thread, copy my next sentence, paste it in the post box, and click "post".
 
"Guys, to thank our most faithful players, for 2 characters you don't move using the free transfers, you will be rewarded with a life-sized poster of a pin-up of the species of your choice (that includes a pin-up of Kit Brinny as well)!"
 
Watch as all the problems are solved.
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I transferred a lowbie alt first just in case there were any issues and to see what the server I wanted to move to is like. He got there in about 30 minutes, I checked the place out and liked how busy it is so I moved my other toons... I'm still waiting (about 18 hours now) for the others to arrive, waiting patiently mind you, but I now only have access to a level 7 Spellslinger with 2 gold to his name lol.
 
I'm good though, I have faith and know it's going to be busy. Suppose I could level him a bit while I wait. 	
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Good idea, but think about the QQ threads by people who already transferred their only two characters.  :lol:
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 level 7 Spellslinger
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			One thing though, my character I'm moving is Tahlin, but I have a Tahlin on the destination realm. I would assume the transfer would be flagged for a rename, but maybe something went wrong? xD Lots of people I know transferred hours after I did, and got in early last night. O.o	
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			Yea you will have to do a name change. Had a guildie have to do the same when he rolled a guy to check out Stormtalon, and he used his same name as old realm.	
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One thing though, my character I'm moving is Tahlin, but I have a Tahlin on the destination realm. I would assume the transfer would be flagged for a rename, but maybe something went wrong? xD Lots of people I know transferred hours after I did, and got in early last night. O.o
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			Just in case there was an issue or the destination server was dead too and I knew he could get to the capital to check it out. If it went tits up I wouldn't have been too annoyed losing him.	
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21 hours and mine's still locked.
 
It's good that you're "keeping an eye on the transfer queues" but it would be even better if you kept your fingers on the keyboard and mouse and processed the queue instead.	
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Have PvP to PvE transfers been fixed? They were still blocked as of about 1am EDT.
 
If I'm going to have to transfer my character twice to get him to the server I want, it'd be nice to get it over with.	
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			I've been waiting for a while as well. Shouldn't have transferred all my characters at once, now I have nothing to play.	
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			Yeah I've got 2 characters stuck in limbo for the past 20+ hours. And here I thought I'd be first in line since I caught the transfers pretty early (around noonish). At least I didn't have to move all of them, but they were the ones I played more...	
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			I did just hit the 24h mark here and my char is still not transfered. Im sad now. Im a new player who had the chance to roll into an empty server. Gosh am I happy to see that transfer as I did not wanted to restart from 0 n'or do I want to restart the same char. But I do wish I could be playing now and not still be waiting for I duno how many more hours now. But certainly more then 24 now :(	
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			With the sheer volume of transfers taking place, it's taking a bit longer than expected to process all the requests. Hang in there, it may be a little bit longer than 24 hours.	
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Yeah I've got 2 characters stuck in limbo for the past 20+ hours. And here I thought I'd be first in line since I caught the transfers pretty early (around noonish). At least I didn't have to move all of them, but they were the ones I played more...
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With the sheer volume of transfers taking place, it's taking a bit longer than expected to process all the requests. Hang in there, it may be a little bit longer than 24 hours.
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			MAKE A STICKY/TWEET AND MAYBE SOME LAUNCHER TEXT ABOUT THIS SAVE YOUR DAMN CS TEAM SOME TIME AND LABOR HAHASeriously though.	
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We are hanging in there. We don't have much choice do we? But its still taking a huge time. I understand why and I accept it. But saying out loud its taking time kinda help me feel betters haha, ik selfish but still true.
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I have a Character in limbo right now pending a transfer. 
It allows me to log in my Character on my old/current realm.
When I log off, it locks the character again. 
It will unlock if I restart the client.
 
Will it harm the process if I log on and do my daily crafting and such?	
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As we get more information, we'll be sure to keep you updated on everything that's going on with the transfers.
 
Thanks!
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			Thanks for the update.	
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			I hope this get's cleared up soon.  I'm really regretting transferring all my characters.  Stuck unable to play for the last 24 hours  :(	
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I have a Character in limbo right now pending a transfer. 
It allows me to log in my Character on my old/current realm.
When I log off, it locks the character again. 
It will unlock if I restart the client.
 
Will it harm the process if I log on and do my daily crafting and such?
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Well, I just checked again, and seems both my transfers are complete and ready to play :)
I must say I imagined everyone will jump at this opportunity and it might take the rest of the week, but it took maybe 26-27 hours overall. Better than I expected.
 
Thank you staff!	
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			So this is wierd. I transfered my stalker to pergo and she became locked. Then I closed the game and came back an hour later and she was still on Pago but playable so I tried to transfer again but it said the character was busy. Then I tried logging in and it let me and I runed some gear and did some stuff then logged off and the character was again locked after I logged off. Then I closed the game and came back about 2hrs later and she was playable again still on pago but it was wierd because I don't think people could see what I typed and I could see people logging off or on in my guild but when I tried to type in guild chat it said I wasn't in the guild. Is this normal and am I screwing up the transfer process by logging on?	
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So this is wierd. I transfered my stalker to pergo and she became locked. Then I closed the game and came back an hour later and she was still on Pago but playable so I tried to transfer again but it said the character was busy. Then I tried logging in and it let me and I runed some gear and did some stuff then logged off and the character was again locked after I logged off. Then I closed the game and came back about 2hrs later and she was playable again still on pago but it was wierd because I don't think people could see what I typed and I could see people logging off or on in my guild but when I tried to type in guild chat it said I wasn't in the guild. Is this normal and am I screwing up the transfer process by logging on?
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			If you look at the character select screen on the top left there is an info box. If you scroll it down. It now says "Due to the high volume of transfer they may take longer than 24 hours" So I would assume its going to be a long while. My whole guild is still waiting and we queued up 28 hours in advance of our raid hoping they would be legit with the time frame. But I guess we will just have to take the day off.	
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I have the same issue with one of my characters.
 
And I'm all right with all my characters being locked, a nice opportunity to roll a new alt.
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I have a Character in limbo right now pending a transfer. 
It allows me to log in my Character on my old/current realm.
When I log off, it locks the character again. 
It will unlock if I restart the client.
 
Will it harm the process if I log on and do my daily crafting and such?
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			We updated our back-end system, and now transfers should be moving along at a much quicker pace. Hopefully everyone will be processed by end of day.	
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We updated our back-end system, and now transfers should be moving along at a much quicker pace. Hopefully everyone will be processed by end of day.
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Thanks for the update.
 
EDIT: All my transfers are complete, including the one I started about 30 mins ago. Yay!
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			my chars are on hazak now, transferred almost exactly 24 hours ago haha	
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With the sheer volume of transfers taking place, it's taking a bit longer than expected to process all the requests. Hang in there, it may be a little bit longer than 24 hours.
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We updated our back-end system, and now transfers should be moving along at a much quicker pace. Hopefully everyone will be processed by end of day.
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Yeah, my character is still locked up. : / 28 hours later.
 
I'm transferring a character named Tahlin, but have a Tahlin already. I know it will flag the transfer for a rename, but perhaps it caused a bug? I don't know if I could check in any way. >.>	
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Does anyone know if they intend to let PvP transfer to PvE?  You can't at the moment, but someone said it was a bug?
 
Edit : Hazak can now go to Ascendancy if anyone's interested.	
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			Cougar said you'll still be limited to PvE or PvP.	
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			im now at 22 hours and still locked.	
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im now at 22 hours and still locked.
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Right.
 
So I logged in a few days ago and did some dailies, logged out to play some LoL.
Come back to do the transfer after PAX and sit down to get reaquianted with Shizuma here and....
 
 
 
Character hasn't transferred to Pergo and it just says this when I try to transfer her again.
 
Meanwhile my other avatar is locked...
 
Carbine... please fix this?	
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Cougar said you'll still be limited to PvE or PvP.
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			Argh.  I never should have transferred all of my characters.  Had the day off from work, was going to play some Wildstar...nope!  :(	
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			30 hours 34 mins ... sweet deal on the free xfer,
			
				
	Edited September 4, 2014 by BusterCasey
	
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I know its me again crying out loud the 30h wait I am on. I guess ill forget any idea of playing wildstar today. So on that note I will be going to cry in my corner with that deception in mind.
 
Note : I started the transfer before they mention its could take more then 24h because of the demand.
 
Note2 : This post can be totally ignored as it is purely and simply for crying out my frustration. I won't be as arrogant to ask you to actually read me even if you just did haha.	
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I AM IN!!!!! FINALY! My main finaly transfered. For anyone who still have doupt with their 30h+ queue, Fear not. Your turn is truly coming to!
 
Note. Thanks a lot Carbine, now I can enjoy your game with people. Eager for those megaserver even if I fear that future Queue hehe.	
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			Lucky.  Still stuck.  Oh well, I've been meaning to read up on Archeage.	
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			I made the mistake of transfering all my toons as well before I knew the time issue. 30 hours in and still waiting. Oh well it could be the week end when I am off of work. I have hope that it will be complete when I put my kids to bed in about an hour. Even tho I am a little QQ I still want to thank Carbine for doing this, so excited to play on a server with people.	
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			30 hours, end of work day in California, still locked.	
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			I had one character that was locked for 28-30 hours and still not moved, so I transferred another character from the same server to a different server tonight, then after 10-20 mins both were transferred.  See if you works for you. 	
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			I'm a bit over 23 hours now. Hope it happens within the next hour ish so I can play tonight	
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Oh, there is an easy way to solve that.
Create a new stickied thread, copy my next sentence, paste it in the post box, and click "post".
 
"Guys, to thank our most faithful players, for 2 characters you don't move using the free transfers, you will be rewarded with a life-sized poster of a pin-up of the species of your choice (that includes a pin-up of Kit Brinny as well)!"
 
Watch as all the problems are solved.
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There's so many flaws with this implementation. First, you let ANYONE transfer their character, whether it is 1 minute old at level 1 or the longest playing character at level 50 and maxed everything out. Since it is NOT instant and automated (which is NOT mentioned ANYWHERE in the process in the game until the character is locked), that means anyone who could delete and recreate their character on the destination server and get to the point where they were within 24 hours is able to delay those who can't. Yes, I am certain someone will now (if they haven't already) make as many characters as possible and then transfer them just to troll and *cupcake* everyone off.
 
Second, since there is a queue, the character is "stuck" in a state that is unplayable but NOTHING is happening with it until the transfer actually occurs. The fact NO ONE at Carbine thought of a CANCEL button to abort the transfer that would work until the point the transfer actually begins is ridiculous. Third, if you can't hold to the 24 hour limit, don't say it, because from the posts in this thread, there does not appear to be any logical order for which characters get transferred first and people are waiting well over that limit.
 
Here's what you do: 1. limit the transfers to level 10 and higher characters. That forces them to go through the starting zones and somewhat into the second zones so if they were going to reroll to change servers, they have a better option. 2. sort the queue by FIFO (First In, First Out), as right now it appears to be sorted by some other criteria (level of character from high to low?). 3. Add an option to cancel the transfer with some sort of limitation, either only after waiting a certain amount of time, and/or not allowing to re-queue for a certain amount of time (I know of the 7-day block once the transfer is actually completed).
 
I sincerely hope someone in Carbine will start thinking like this from now on so future implemented features (like the Megaservers) aren't flawed.	
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I think we say to give it 24 hours, if still nothing contact our CS team and use a category for account issues.
 
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We updated our back-end system, and now transfers should be moving along at a much quicker pace. Hopefully everyone will be processed by end of day.
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Same answer to you. I had same thing
 
That is because you have not qualified for all the stuff for the transfer. You need less than 40p, No pending mail, no pending auctions, Not a leader of any circles or a leader of a guild. Or else you it lets you log in because you don't meet qualification. Then when you log off it rechecks if you have fixed the issue by locking it. Resolve these issues first.
 
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You didn't read a word of what I posted... My character is qualified and in que to be transferred, but there are times when i log on and can actually play my character. Other times its locked out like it should be...
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			I'm glad I am not the only one...24 hrs and counting on both characters.	
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			Been waiting 30+ hours and submitted a ticket. It's definitely my fault for locking my character or even trying to transfer. I should of known. 	
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That's because their system is broken and isn't stopping people from queuing their character for transfer even when they don't meet the requirements. It happened to me the same as it happened to you and once I realized what was causing the problem (the character had too much platinum to transfer) I fixed the issue and the character has stayed locked ever since (27 hours now.)
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			So, after 31 hours, I got a transfer done. ^^ Just give it time, guys. Patience is a virtue, y'know! Level an alt on the realm you're moving to. :3	
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So, after 31 hours, I got a transfer done. ^^ Just give it time, guys. Patience is a virtue, y'know! Level an alt on the realm you're moving to. :3
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I wish that was the case for mine.  I have 1 plat on the character, no auctions, no mail, no guild or even circles.  I checked arena teams, and it's not on anything.  I still get the locked then not locked bug.
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It's possible you've got some delayed mail coming to you and there's nothing you can do until it arrives. Or the system has falsely flagged you as not meeting the criteria. But that does seem to be why the system allows people to log onto characters that are queued for transfer.
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			I'd truly have a laugh if some institution gave out internationally free taxi rides, and I was sat there on some random bench watching 9 guys trying to cram into one car, through the same door, slamming their heads on the way and then blaming the cab driver.	
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			Thank you Carbine! Transfers to new server finished! Just a few hours over schedule that's awesome. 	
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Here's what you do: 1. limit the transfers to level 10 and higher characters. That forces them to go through the starting zones and somewhat into the second zones so if they were going to reroll to change servers, they have a better option. 2. sort the queue by FIFO (First In, First Out), as right now it appears to be sorted by some other criteria (level of character from high to low?). 3. Add an option to cancel the transfer with some sort of limitation, either only after waiting a certain amount of time, and/or not allowing to re-queue for a certain amount of time (I know of the 7-day block once the transfer is actually completed).
 
I sincerely hope someone in Carbine will start thinking like this from now on so future implemented features (like the Megaservers) aren't flawed.
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			I think I'll give it 48hrs before I submit a ticket or anything because there's obviously still a problem for a lot of people.	
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			sitting on about 30 hours now and the transfer is still not complete...	
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			I just hit the 31 hour mark almost 20 minutes ago, and still nothing so far.	
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OMG!
There should have been a level limit.
Atleast level 10 or 15, but letting a level 1 xfer is just silly.
Seems Carbine didn't think this through all the way and wanted to rush it a little before the MEGA SERVER happened!	
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Sometime between 10pm and now my transfer completed.  Looks to have all his fingers and toes, so that's good.
 
So 32-40 hours.  A bit more than 24 but I guess Evindra died somewhere in the middle.  Maybe mine killed it~	
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Right.
 
So I logged in a few days ago and did some dailies, logged out to play some LoL.
Come back to do the transfer after PAX and sit down to get reaquianted with Shizuma here and....
 
 
 
Character hasn't transferred to Pergo and it just says this when I try to transfer her again.
 
Meanwhile my other avatar is locked...
 
Carbine... please fix this?
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Fran Fran! You're alive! I know you hate my guts but I'm happy to see you're alright! =D
 
Not sure if Pergo can handle you though... =p
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			So its been 35 hours now. I was able to log onto my character this morning but it was still on my old server. Someone looted my festival and it sent me mail. So i got the mail then logged off and then it gave me the lock again. I wonder if it will be soon or if I have to wait another day or more?	
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