117204-server-transfer-update

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Hi everybody,We wanted to thank you for all of the feedback and insight you’ve been giving us on our recent megaserver change, as well as the health and status of the servers since then. It’s been great to see so many players coming together and enjoying the megaservers, arranging awesome PvP battles and player events, bolstering guild recruitment and open world event participation.
 
We’ve been listening to your feedback and understand there have been some concerns for the health of PvP servers following the PvP to PvE transfers we enabled for a short time after the megaserver deployment.
 
When we looked at our data, the PvP Realms (mainly Luminai for our EU players) seemed healthy, but we understand this wasn’t what players were seeing or feeling in-game. As such, we sat down and discussed how to ensure all the megaserver realms would continue to be healthy and sustain an active and positive community.As a result of these discussions, we have decided to move forward with the following;
 
 
As of 10/28/14, once NA servers come back online, we will enable free PvP to PvE and PvE to PvP realm transfers. You will be able to transfer from PvP to PvE servers and vice-versa, for free, for your games account region. Normal realm transfer rules will still apply, for more information on server transfer restrictions please see this Support article.
 
 
For the time being, these transfers will remain open indefinitely, but we will be closely monitoring the situation and if we feel it necessary we will remove this service. Rest assured, we will ensure to give you appropriate notice if we do decide to shut these free transfers down, as well as an explanation as to why.We expect there will be some concerns about players using PvE servers to level up, without the dangers of a PvP server, and then transferring across once they reach max level, however we felt that ensuring the health and community of each server is more vital. We will be keeping a close eye on things for any shenanigans or foul play though.
 
We want to thank you again for all your feedback, and apologize to those who felt we should have responded sooner. As you can imagine this was not a decision we wanted to make lightly and we wanted to make sure we gave the best option for everybody.We hope you’ll continue to enjoy WildStar, whether that’s organizing events, stomping on Raid bosses, or creating amazing houses, no matter what server you are on.All the best,
Team WildStar	
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			I wonder how many will take advantage or if people are quite cozy on Jabbit for now to warrant a change.	
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			I'm currently on a PvE realm and in a guild that has no plans on moving but this is great news for everyone!  Thank you very much for listening to the community Carbine, despite previous issues, know that you do have people standing strong beside this game and have no plans on going anywhere.  Keep it up!	
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			I made the switch to PVE for the reasons stated above. Now I will certainly monitor this and fingers cross the pvp servers seem more alive. Personally I don't see why we just ditch the different servers and for the people who want to pvp, just flag.	
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PvE to PvP realm transfers
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And people try to say that the devs aren't listening. You totally are, It just takes some time to really evaluate all aspects of a situation.
 
This is a welcome change and I'm really happy to see that the devs took some quality time to sit down and evaluate how this would affect the game as a whole. I honestly do not believe PvE -> PvP transfers will unbalance the world PvP scene. Luminai was in need of some love and this is the best way to do it.
 
Best wishes to Luminai and Warhound. I hope there's a player influx headed your way.	
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			Thanks for the flexibility Carbine, this surely will help many people and increase the probabilities of a balanced population! Power to the players.	
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			Nice that you guys finally decided to make this available. In the end, the level of importance players place on the difficulty of leveling in a PVP environment pales in comparison to server health, population density, and not segregating your player bases. Thanks for listening!	
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			Thank you for this! 	
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It's too late ... seriously Carbine  <_<
 
It will just make things worse ... Most people are now on jabbit -_-
 
Make a single server, stop with your realms transfers !	
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I am ecstatic!
 
Thank you, Carbine!
I will slay a thousand Exiles as a praise to the dev gods!	
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			The two server rule sets tend to end up with players evolving into often clashing mentalities where interaction in the game world are concerned.  If this helps separate those from one another, I'm more than happy for those looking to play on a PvP server who more or less went PvE for the sake of population density.  I do hope however that this is very carefully monitored.  Faction density is a secondary but large concern, such as having one faction populate on one and the other on another server.  WoW currently has many realms that are nearly completely populated by one faction because of server transfers.  Similarly, the PvP servers ended up the most popular meccas for progression raiding because of high-end competitive guilds transferring to them and all the players who take the top guilds's decisions as gospel.  I hope that things smooth out for the EU servers, but I'm unsure about this for NA servers.  Time will tell, and I hope it helps players enjoy the game more.	
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			What aboute EU? I have a lot of players in my guild who are stuck in Luminai.	
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			HOLY CRAP THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WARHOUND GET READY FOR PEOPLE AGAIN!	
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HOLY CRAP THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WARHOUND GET READY FOR PEOPLE AGAIN!
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What aboute EU? I have a lot of players in my guild who are stuck in Luminai.
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Excellent news!!!
 
A fast question pls. I moved a week ago from Luminai to Jabbit but now many ppl, including me, will want to transfer and play to a healthy pvp server. So am i going to have the chance to move again back to Luminai or not? Thank you :)	
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 :lol: 
 
*cough* We kinda have another awesome event on Warhound this saturday at 4:00pm PDT...just sayin'...  ;)
 
Come join us and get introduced to world PVP in an epic way.
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What aboute EU? I have a lot of players in my guild who are stuck in Luminai.
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			Just in time for Jabbit's PvP event!	
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Excellent news!!!
 
A fast question pls. I moved a week ago from Luminai to Jabbit but now many ppl, including me, will want to transfer and play to a healthy pvp server. So am i going to have the chance to move again back to Luminai or not? Thank you :)
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Thank you carbine for listening! :)
 
Darn, have to remove my sig now i guess....  :ph34r:	
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			this is pretty neat, you can try out the new server with out fear of not being able to xfer back. here's to hoping	
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			Thanks Carbine!	
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Thank you carbine for listening! :)
 
Darn, have to remove my sig now i guess....  :ph34r:
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			Well now we'll see if this helps or hurts Luminae.	
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			*Applauds*	
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			Thank you for opening it up both ways!	
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			YES!Everyone come and join Luminai's warplot event! :) 	
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			Props to Carbine.  Another issue resolved the way the player base wanted (and needed).	
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Really happy to see a reaction to the feedback of the community. I hope these transfers balance the population and bring ease to everyone!
 
Looking forward to checking the planned events!
 
Best of luck to both Luminai and Warhound! :)	
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Well done carbine, I am proud of you for making such a tough decision and listening to us.
 
Now come back to Luminai guys, lets balance out this population and make both servers fun, healthy, populated servers to play on :D	
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This is wonderful news! Thanks for opening for server transfer both ways.  This will created a healthy environment where people can join the correct guild for them. This is really a great thing! 
 
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He did specifically mention that this was in part a response to the player experience on Luminai and later specified you can only transfer within your account regions.  I think it's safe to say that EU is included in this.
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I'm very interested to see how this all plays out.  PVE residents who have wanted to xfer all along are given the chance to do so.   However PVP residents who "missed the boat" are given another chance to flee and further hurt the PVP servers.
 
Let the transfers begin!	
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Entity will be hosting some warplots on Saturday at 4est. We have a costume contest a spooky maze and a race track all with awesome prizes!! Pvp queues for warplots are cross server after all right....
 
Www.Imgur.com/5xxaugB	
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			Anyone else having trouble transferring from PvE to PvP? It's giving an error.	
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While I am VERY PLEASED to see this change to your policy, I can't wash the
lie of "Luminai is healthy" out of my head.
Thanks for this though!	
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Anyone else having trouble transferring from PvE to PvP? It's giving an error.
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			This is good news. Hopefully it'll fix the population issue, so that when/if Carbine offers free trials after Drop 3, people checking out the PVP servers will see more lively populations and be more likely to stick around. :)	
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What's the error?
 
Most common issues with realm transfer are that you have pending mail, or that you're a leader of a guild, circle, or the like.
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			Thanks Carbine, this is appreciated. Likely I'll be transferring to Entity from Warhound, but it's nice to know that the option's available to switch back if I ever feel like it.	
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It says "This character is unavailable for transfer at this time." It is actually my buddy who is having the problem. His character is "Alahsters Reign" on Entity.
 
He's deleted all the mail, nothing in the auction house, not in a guild/circle/warparty, etc.
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			He created a character on Warhound with the same name so that when he transferred his Entity character over, he would be forced to rename. When going to transfer his Entity character to Warhound, he received the error stated previously. He then transferred the newly created character from Warhound to Entity to see if the transfers were broken for all his characters (they were not). So, his Entity character should not be on a 7 day CD. Hopefully I explained that well enough :).	
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He created a character on Warhound with the same name so that when he transferred his Entity character over, he would be forced to rename. When going to transfer his Entity character to Warhound, he received the error stated previously. He then transferred the newly created character from Warhound to Entity to see if the transfers were broken for all his characters (they were not). So, his Entity character should not be on a 7 day CD. Hopefully I explained that well enough :).
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			   Thank you Carbine! This is an awesome change and I know from the many public posts by various CRB's that did not want PVE to PVP transfers that this was not an easy decision to make. That it has happened is more proof "the Devs are listening" and are willing to try this because the players really wanted it. I do not post much, usually white knight type when I do, but the lack of this option was one I considered unfair and I was very critical of it in the thread. Thank you for this opportunity for friends and guildies to reunite on the type of realm they really want to be on. For new players that maybe picked wrong type because this is their 1st mmo and found friends through pvp matches and can now join them. Thank you Carbine and thank you Thacheez for posting this everywhere!     I hope the folks on Luminae can get their friends back and get that population back up. Maybe consult with the folks on Warhound and start some community events to generate some positive publicity. Tony Rey  is always looking to promote server events if you give him some advanced notice :)  This game and community is just so awesome!!!	
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			Thank you for doing this. The effects of the one-way limited-time-only transfer were awful for the EU PvP server. While I'm sure the PVE-server will remain significantly more populated, this is great news for all of us who want to stay on a PVP-server but play the PVE-content as well.	
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			Good desicion, just make sure people don't ping-pong between servers to play the auction house or commodity exchange. Or just connect those two across servers so there is no reason to do it.	
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Nice, I don't care much for the transfers but glad they are their if i choose to switch over if the pvp servers aren't into the pve raid content I can still find people to join or a guild or two.
 
1 step in the right direction, now don't take two steps back on any future updates and the population will flow in your favor, (I think anyway) your choice as always but thanks!	
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I know your intentions with this server transfer were to help Luminai, but you are actually hurting it even more. Luminai is bleeding out even more now, as more people move to Jabbit beause of it's higher population.
 
This was caused when you enable PvP to PvE server trasnfers only. I suggest you shutdown the server transfer before this hurts Luminai even more.
 
A solution might be enabling transfers only from Jabbit to Luminai, but I will leave that to your judgment what needs to be done. You have to act fast before Luminai cease to exist.	
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