60957-free-realm-transfers

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Hey everyone, as you can imagine we’ve been seeing calls for Free RealmTransfers on the forums, reddit on the live-stream. We’ve been working hard to make sure we take a measured approach to this delicate process.  So in an effort to bring relief to some of our most populated Realms, we are offering free Realm Transfers off of these Realms and onto some of the lesser populated Realms. Once the server maintenance is complete on June 3rd, 12:00AM PDT, you will have the option to transfer your characters from the following Realms:
 
 
NA
Pergo to Rowsdower
Pago to Rowsdower
Widow to Rowsdower
Stormtalon to Mikros
Caretaker to Orias
 
EU
Hazak to Contagion
Hazak to Gaius
Hazak to Deadstar
Progenitor to Deadstar
Treespeaker to Gaius
Ascendancy to Archon
 
Please be aware, there will likely be a rush for Realm transfers when we first open up the service. The transfer process can take time. In some cases it may take up to 24 hours depending on the volume of transactions. 
 
Additional Information:
Upon the event that we need to remove one of the destination Realms from the free transfer service, we will give the community 48 hour notice before removing a destination Realm from the list of Free Transfers.
When new Realms open post launch, we will message if this Realm is a transfer target or not. If the new Realm is not, then the “race to 50” will be preserved on that Realm for at least 2-4 weeks, and transfers will be prevented for that time.
 
The Realm transfer can only be enacted from the character select screen, so you will have to wait in a queue to enact the transfer if there is one on the source Realm.
You can move any number of characters you want as many times as you want, but each character can only be moved once every 22 hours.
You cannot have pending mail, auctions, commodity orders, or CREDD orders
You cannot be a member of a circle, Arena Team, Warparty, or a Guild
You cannot be in a circle, Arena Team, Warparty, or Guild leader
 
A note on Rowsdower - In the event that Rowsdower becomes overloaded, we are prepared to open new PvP Realms that Rowsdower players would be able to transfer to.
 
			
				
	Edited June 3, 2014 by Cougar
	
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			Thank you, the devs are surely listening  :wub:	
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When will overcrowded non-PVP servers have this option? Looking at you Stormtalon and Caretaker.
 
EDIT: Dev post was updated after I posted this.	
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When will overcrowded non-PVP servers have this option? Looking at you Stormtalon and Caretaker.
 
EDIT: Dev post was updated after I posted this.
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			No more queue :3	
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			Carbine you are the best	
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FOR REAL THIS IS YOUR LAME SOLUTION?
 
THE ONLY SOLUTION IS MOBILITY BETWEEN SERVERS WITH TOONS SHEESH HOW HARD IS IT TO UNDERSTAND THIS!!
 
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A note on Rowsdower - In the event that Rowsdower becomes overloaded, we are prepared to open new PvP Realms that Rowsdower players would be able to transfer to.
 
 
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			I like that you are doing something, but will this really help that much with queue times ?	
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			My body is ready.	
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Just out of curiosity, will this also apply to the other two current NA-PVP realms that haven't been mentioned (Warbringer and Bloodsworn)? What if those two become crowded during launch, will they get free transfers to newly opened realms as well?
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Mikros is already High on prime time :-/
 
But I salute the decision for those who are waiting hours just to get in. Hopefully this won't bring queues on my server. ;)	
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			I do want to point out that during prime time hours, the Orias and sometimes Mikros server hit high status already. Transferring to them with new characters being made at launch may only cause these both to become full. Maybe it would be better to make just one more PVE server and have Caretaker and Stormtalon transfer to there? I'm just worried of a constant jumping effect with players servers becoming full after transfer, and then all the players that started on that server wanting to move and just causing even more confusion.	
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			Damn, you guys implemented this fast. That's impressive.	
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Make sure that Orias stays enterable. I play on that server because it was medium populated, now it is on high flag. I hope it won,t become full, I am having a great time never had any queue on this server. We'll see on June 3rd
 
[EDIT] I am with dez88 on this one. Should probably consider opening another PvE server to accept the transfers. We are quite high already.	
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Devs are listening but still not labelling a pvp server Oceanic.
No thanks.	
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What about EU-PVE Eko and Ascendancy? - there have been queues for several hours on both these servers every evening so far.
 
Many thanks for the update and for looking into it so quickly!	
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i was told to keep the conversation pertaining to this to here, therefore i shall!
 
glad to have server transfers.
 
means the people who are unwilling to tough out pergo but dont want there characters lost to them can transfer out
 
 
leaving the rest of us with delicious pergo.../mmm	
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What about EU-PVE Eko and Ascendancy? - there have been queues for several hours on both these servers every evening so far.
 
Many thanks for the update and for looking into it so quickly!
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			Wish we could Like staff posts. 	
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			Added Ascendancy to Archon, it was missing from the list ;)	
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			Any chance of Pergo also being able to transfer to Warbringer? Was hoping on bring my Stalker over from there, and I'm sure Rowsdower is going to be packed when transfers start.	
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			Any chances of adding an Oceanic PVP server and opening transfers from Widow to it? 	
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			Please make sure that full guilds are not transferring off servers who already have a poor ratio in Dominion / Exile.  Meaning If there are 3 to 1 Exile to Dominion. Dominion shouldn't be able to transfer off. Try to keep the ratio close to even or full guilds will transfer off and leave one side dead.	
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			If there is a chance you ruin Rowsdower with this, why wouldn't you just open the new PvP server now and let all the PvP servers transfer there? Seems inevitable that Rowsdower will become full now, just like every single PvP server before it. 	
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So...First char on Hazak, but then Hazak was full, so I made another toon, on Zhur. The lowest populated realm at the time. You did tell us to play on other realms.Now I have one toon on Hazak and one on Zhur, but I cant move them together :/ Any chance in getting Zhur to be able to transfer to Contagion, Gaius or Deadstar? I dont mind being on a lower pop server, just want my characters together.
Please help :D	
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EU
Hazak to Contagion
Hazak to Gaius
Hazak to Deadstar
Progenitor to Deadstar
Treespeaker to Gaius
Ascendancy to Archon
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			There's only one NA RP-PVE server... it's got giant queues during NA evenings, is there going to be a new server for launch? EU gets three RP-PVE and NA only gets one?	
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O M G.
 
For implementing free realm transfers, you guys are *this* awesome!!!
 
 
 
 	
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Woohoo! Get off Stormtalon so I don't have to sit in ques!
 
On a serious note thanks Devs for doing free realm transfers.	
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			Not to be the naysayer here, but I've literally went to each pvp server, created a character and played them, bouncing from server to server due to the increasing queue times. Currently, I'm playing on Rowsdower and the server pop is already high at times. If you open transfers to the realm on top of all the launch gamer's deciding to go there as well, the server will follow in the footsteps of Pergo and Pago. Why not just open up new pvp servers and have transfers heading there instead of an already heavily populated server? Just doesn't seem like a great plan to me because once that queue starts up on Rowsdower, there goes free transfers off there to the next server and so on and so forth. Just my two cents after all the fun that we've all had with queue times.	
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			We need more servers, period. Let's get moving!!!!!  Last few queues on Warbringer have been over an hour wait.	
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			I don't think this is the realm transfers anyone was asking for. The majority of people wanted free transfers after the new servers become ghost towns. That way they can avoid the long ques for time being but can transfer to the server their friends/guild is on.	
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			when i enter game its writing me network error: unable to connect              help me what to do	
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I don't think this is the realm transfers anyone was asking for. The majority of people wanted free transfers after the new servers become ghost towns. That way they can avoid the long ques for time being but can transfer to the server their friends/guild is on.
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@SnapTV
 
Servers are down to Maintenance	
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			so a 12 it will work correct?	
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			how many hours should we wait?	
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			It's gonna be an 1.5-2h long, I don't recall when exactly the servers went down.	
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			ok and i am new player wanna ask u which server should i choose	
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So...First char on Hazak, but then Hazak was full, so I made another toon, on Zhur. The lowest populated realm at the time. You did tell us to play on other realms.
Now I have one toon on Hazak and one on Zhur, but I cant move them together :/ Any chance in getting Zhur to be able to transfer to Contagion, Gaius or Deadstar? I dont mind being on a lower pop server, just want my characters together.
Please help :D
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			Ahhh the transfers are already allowed. Please please don't let my high server fill up to full so that every single server is full. *cries* I get the feeling that is what they are aiming for though. Servers to jump from high to full status on and off but not so full that the wait is super long.	
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So now that the servers are back up, I am trying to use my Free Transfer to get off of Caretaker, and everytime I click "Transfer Realm" I get a message "This character is unavailable for transfer at this time."
He is a level 16 Draken Warrior. I made sure his auctions are empty, and there is no mail in his box. Is anyone else experiencing this issue?	
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FOR REAL THIS IS YOUR LAME SOLUTION?
 
THE ONLY SOLUTION IS MOBILITY BETWEEN SERVERS WITH TOONS SHEESH HOW HARD IS IT TO UNDERSTAND THIS!!
 
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For shame, Raijinn, expecting a hardcore PvPer type to roll a character on such an obvious carebear server name, "Rowsdower".. :) 
 
They're just soooo cute & cuddly! :)	
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Well what an incredibly lame and half-hearted approach.
 
Why are you limiting the realm you can move to based on the realm you are currently on? That is absolutely ridiculous. Not difficult to say, "Right, these are the non-full realms which you can move to from any other realm. Once they reach capacity, we will remove them from the list of available realms to move to." Currently on Ascendancy and wish to move in order to play with friends, but they are not on Archon and nor do they have the option to move to Archon so I'm still stuck not being able to play with friends.
 
This also leads on to the next question of why can we not move from PvE to PvP realms? You've listed Contagion as a possible realm to transfer to from Hazak, but why can players on Ascendancy not move to this realm as well?
 
Very disappointing approach to free realm transfers, guess I will have to wait for paid transfers, but who knows how long that will take.	
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100% right.
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THE GAME WAS WORKING 1 MIN AGO BUT NOW I CANT GO IN ITS WRITING no realms are avalible at this time                 
                                                                    HELP ME PLEASE!	
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THE GAME WAS WORKING 1 MIN AGO BUT NOW I CANT GO IN ITS WRITING no realms are avalible at this time                 
                                                                    HELP ME PLEASE!	
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			so you can transfer back and forth between the two realms every 22 hours?	
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so you can transfer back and forth between the two realms every 22 hours?
 
sorry double post :P	
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Sorry I confess I haven't read all the pages....what about Ravenous?
 
We have a queue every night......Can we not have the possibility to transfer to Zhur?	
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			Free transfers are all good and all but what about the Oceanic community who's been asking for you to simply relabel Widow to Oceanic and if you guys aren't willing to do so create a new pvp server and label that Oceanic???????	
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			Any possibility of (perhaps paid) transfers in the other direction? I really want off Orias and onto a server with Oceanic players.	
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			What about all the people that rolled on RP realms before you started creating additional realms? I would really appreciate a transfer from the existing RP realm Lightspire to either a new PVE/PVP realm... 	
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			This awesome news for some players.	
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The only issue is now the people that got split up between hazak, ravos and zhur those cant all transfer and u cant transfer from hazak to zhur zo what should the people do with friends on hazak but couldnt create there toons there during pre beta. its a good start but they either need to come up with a option so that those people including me can get to the same server aswel.
 
cheers	
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Holy shit the complaining!Guys, the game JUST released.
There will be more servers over time.
Just like any MMO that has servers.
Do you think WoW started with the hundred or 2 servers it has? Hell no.
Chill the f--- out.	
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Holy shit the complaining!
Guys, the game JUST released.
There will be more servers over time.
Just like any MMO that has servers.
Do you think WoW started with the hundred or 2 servers it has? Hell no.
Chill the f--- out.
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			wait? so now I have to re-roll again because youre going to allow 3 full pvp servers to freely transfer over to my "still full on prime time" server? can't you just open another pvp server on the date of these transfers and mitigate all the pvp traffic into there and all the pve traffic into a fresh pve realm? I'm fine putting up with a 10 minute queue timer, having to reconsider my realm selection after a day of play, as well as moderate rubber band and fps problems atm, but if you're going to really use this as a solution and if it back fires on me because of your quick and easy fix to a simple problem, ill be flooding these forums dug. That much you can count on.	
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Holy shit the complaining!
Guys, the game JUST released.
There will be more servers over time.
Just like any MMO that has servers.
Do you think WoW started with the hundred or 2 servers it has? Hell no.
Chill the f--- out.
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Hazak to Contagion
Hazak to Gaius
Hazak to Deadstar
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			thank you guys, just love this game hope you will be like this in coming years and don't reduce difficulty plz	
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I don't think this is the realm transfers anyone was asking for. The majority of people wanted free transfers after the new servers become ghost towns. That way they can avoid the long ques for time being but can transfer to the server their friends/guild is on.
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Any chances for transfer from Ravenous to Hazak? Paid transfer maybe?
When is it possible?
 
I just want to transfer all my Dom/Exile characters on the same server...
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Seriously  I gotta hand it to you guys, you really are doing an amazing job at fixing these problems! 
 
And really fast too! 
 
I was a bit skeptic but witnessing how much effort you have put into it i'll gladly support this game for while to come! 
 
Keep up the good work and I'll keep up the subscriptions!	
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Any chances for transfer from Ravenous to Hazak? Paid transfer maybe?
When is it possible?
 
I just want to transfer all my Dom/Exile characters on the same server...
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			If these realm transfers are the reason for the lifting of the faction lock on pvp realms, I'm against it. If not, then good job.	
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i whas forced to go to a german server  because of the full  EN server.
when get the people that are stuck on the german servers a change to move to a En server.
 
Kazor DE server i am stuck on now.
 
 
i have a lvl 27 on that server now so i really dont want to  start over again.
 	
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FOR REAL THIS IS YOUR LAME SOLUTION?
 
THE ONLY SOLUTION IS MOBILITY BETWEEN SERVERS WITH TOONS SHEESH HOW HARD IS IT TO UNDERSTAND THIS!!
 
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			What about all the groups that got split up between Hazak and Ravenous / Zhur in EU? They have no way of joining up because Rav and Zhur are stuck on their servers. 	
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			that was wicked fast dev's. Glad to see you guys had planned ahead. as for people complaining about high populations, High is good, it means there is lots of people to group up with and also in elder game to run 40 man's with. if they opened enough servers to put the populations at medium or low that would be lost. These guys know what they are doing.	
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Hey everyone, as you can imagine we’ve been seeing calls for Free RealmTransfers on the forums, reddit on the live-stream. We’ve been working hard to make sure we take a measured approach to this delicate process.  So in an effort to bring relief to some of our most populated Realms, we are offering free Realm Transfers off of these Realms and onto some of the lesser populated Realms. Once the server maintenance is complete on June 3rd, 12:00AM PDT, you will have the option to transfer your characters from the following Realms:
EU
Hazak to Contagion
Hazak to Gaius
Hazak to Deadstar
Progenitor to Deadstar
Treespeaker to Gaius
Ascendancy to Archon
 
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Holy shit the complaining!
Guys, the game JUST released.
There will be more servers over time.
Just like any MMO that has servers.
Do you think WoW started with the hundred or 2 servers it has? Hell no.
Chill the f--- out.
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			Its so hard to open up new servers now a days. I mean open up a few more then as time passes consolidate them. Far better off then pissing off your client base when they are facing a 2 hour queue. Learn from ESOs mistakes, you have one chance to make a good impression, 2 hour queues are NOT that way	
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I have been following the forums since Beta, but this is first time that I actually decided to post something.
 
You, people at Carbine, are everything what an MMO developer company should be!
 
You are keeping us informed on every step that you are making through more than one media, solving the problems that people are reporting with such speed that it is not only commendable, but quite impressive (I can only imagine what pain it is to keep up with this pace) and really listening to the community, not only doing things according to your own vision!
 
And now, even before launch (3 days after the game went live), you offer transfers! Having the technology already and just easily implementing it.
 
For 4 years in making of this game, you people have not only thought of everything, but actually developed it!
 
I am impressed, and I am not one to be impressed easily!
 
Personally, I did not have the best launch (game is still not fully optimized for my comp and my community had to switch server to Zhur because most of us could not log to Hazak), but you people are really working on the problems and delivering the solutions.
 
But I can tell you that you have a lot of happy customers in my community and I for one will be supporting you by paying for the sub and participating in the C.R.E.D.D system.
 
Keep up the good work guys and gals... and stay frosty!	
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			Yeah we need some relieve on EU-Eko as well. Yesterday there was 2 hours + ques.	
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I have been following the forums since Beta, but this is first time that I actually decided to post something.
 
You, people at Carbine, are everything what an MMO developer company should be!
 
You are keeping us informed on every step that you are making through more than one media, solving the problems that people are reporting with such speed that it is not only commendable, but quite impressive (I can only imagine what pain it is to keep up with this pace) and really listening to the community, not only doing things according to your own vision!
 
And now, even before launch (3 days after the game went live), you offer transfers! Having the technology already and just easily implementing it.
 
For 4 years in making of this game, you people have not only thought of everything, but actually developed it!
 
I am impressed, and I am not one to be impressed easily!
 
Personally, I did not have the best launch (game is still not fully optimized for my comp and my community had to switch server to Zhur because most of us could not log to Hazak), but you people are really working on the problems and delivering the solutions.
 
But I can tell you that you have a lot of happy customers in my community and I for one will be supporting you by paying for the sub and participating in the C.R.E.D.D system.
 
Keep up the good work guys and gals... and stay frosty!
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Seriously! This is amazingly fast and far exceeds my greatest expectations of you guys. Keep up it up!
 
 
And to everyone who wants to play with their friends on realm X.
Why did you roll on different realms to begin with? Zhur came up just a few hours after Hazak, it's highly unlikely that you had even hit level 10 at that point. Why did you not re-roll if you cared about playing with your friends? Sure transfers would probably come at some point in time. It took 4(!) days, but it might as well have taken 4 months.
 
But most of all think about this. These transfers are to lower the extreme queue times on the most popular realms. That's their one and only purpose. It's not for you to play with the friends you abandoned because you couldn't bother losing one hour of play time (which you've now probably lost many times over queueing for the same realm).
 
Transfers to more or less every server will come eventually, they'll likely be paid and it's highly unlikely that anyone will be able to transfer to a full realm (much like in WoW).	
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I'm genuinely impressed by the speed you managed to get Server Transfers going. However, I feel that without some level of freedom, these transfers are not going to be as effective as they could. Most people started on a realm that wasn't necessarily their first choice, but because it was available. This included people joining a server ruleset they normally wouldnt (PvE vs PvP vs RP).
 
I'm still really bummed about having missed the levelling experience with friends/guildies though.	
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Seriously! This is amazingly fast and far exceeds my greatest expectations of you guys. Keep up it up!
 
 
And to everyone who wants to play with their friends on realm X.
Why did you roll on different realms to begin with? Zhur came up just a few hours after Hazak, it's highly unlikely that you had even hit level 10 at that point. Why did you not re-roll if you cared about playing with your friends? Sure transfers would probably come at some point in time. It took 4(!) days, but it might as well have taken 4 months.
 
But most of all think about this. These transfers are to lower the extreme queue times on the most popular realms. That's their one and only purpose. It's not for you to play with the friends you abandoned because you couldn't bother losing one hour of play time (which you've now probably lost many times over queueing for the same realm).
 
Transfers to more or less every server will come eventually, they'll likely be paid and it's highly unlikely that anyone will be able to transfer to a full realm (much like in WoW).
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This is only a quarter-solution.
 
Long queues caused guilds and groups of friends to make characters on scattered servers.  This... doesn't fix that.
 
People who followed your advice of 'just play on a non-full server' can still be isolated from their friends.
A great step, but not there yet.
 
I appreciate your desire to keep all servers SUPER FULL TO THE MAX.... but that doesn't seem practical.	
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			Hello devs... Can you pls add Transfer from Hazak to Zhur, or something like that... Cause we have half guild on Hazak and half on Zhur... 	
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			It wouldn't be wise to make the transfer to various server realms more flexible than they already are, because there would be no control on who goes where. By limiting one server as the desitnation server, it ensures servers that have the lowest population will get an influx of new players from the already full servers. It wouldn't do justice to allow players from a full server to go to another full server.	
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It wouldn't be wise to make the transfer to various server realms more flexible than they already are, because there would be no control on who goes where. By limiting one server as the desitnation server, it ensures servers that have the lowest population will get an influx of new players from the already full servers. It wouldn't do justice to allow players from a full server to go to another full server.
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It wouldn't be wise to make the transfer to various server realms more flexible than they already are, because there would be no control on who goes where. By limiting one server as the desitnation server, it ensures servers that have the lowest population will get an influx of new players from the already full servers. It wouldn't do justice to allow players from a full server to go to another full server.
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What you mean is, it wouldn't be wise to make if more flexible for free. Incomming varied costs for transfers like GW2 does with T1 servers.
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GW2 had free realm transfer for months post-launch, which helped guilds and single players get settled. With Carbine's current solution, some people still won't be able to reunite their guild without rerolling characters (e.g. guilds that overflowed from Hazak to Ravenous). Wasn't that the main reason for allowing transfers in the first place, along with distributing queue time?
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Server transfers don't solve anything.  We migrated a large multigame guild to Wildstar.  We chose a server pre-launch.  We advertised that server.  We drove pre-orders so we could be on for headstart and start building that guild.  Picking up and moving isn't a viable solution.  Preventing guildies from joining our server isn't a solution.  
 
SWTOR made this same mistake and spammed dozens of mini servers before they had to reverse direction and create a half dozen large servers.  It's mind boggling to see another company make the same mistake.
 
Server population caps need to be increased and the infrastructure to support that needs to be taken care of.	
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Unfortunate. Our guild went from Pergo to Bloodsworn....  We all have toons on Pergo we would like to bring over to Bloodsworn.
 
I guess shame on us for actually moving early and trying to alleviate queue times.	
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			So I was originally on Stormtalon then started a new character on Mikros. Can I move my other character from Stormtalon if they both have the same name? While my character is still a lower level I want to 10 gold on it :)	
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IMO people complaining about being fragmented because of queues need a lesson in patience. Not wanting to wait an hour or two to get on your server at an AAA MMO's launch is causing you more headache than just waiting it out.
 
Good for Carbine for providing a solution, even if it isn't what everyone wants, so quickly!	
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Isnt it possible to transfer right now?
I logged in remotly from work this morning and saw the transferoption, now its gone?
im on Hazak.	
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IMO people complaining about being fragmented because of queues need a lesson in patience. Not wanting to wait an hour or two to get on your server at an AAA MMO's launch is causing you more headache than just waiting it out.
 
Good for Carbine for providing a solution, even if it isn't what everyone wants, so quickly!
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Thanks for this option!  At the cost of wPvP.  Who cares about PvP right?
 
Fixing things fast vs fixing them right... I thought you were different Carbine.	
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			Eh how long does it take for it go through the characters i moved are locked on hazzak, and i dont see them on the new server	
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			Please....PLEASE! I took the free realm change in the thought that my entire guild was going to be moving, but they didn't and now I am stuck on what feels at most times like a completely DEAD realm questing through content solo having no help for group content, no ability to do dungeons, and worst of all I'm away from the guild that I was going to raid with so please. LET ME PAY YOU TO GO BACK TO PERGO	
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			Can we change factions on the transfer?	
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 Yesterday I got pised off by quenues, so I just left my esper at Pergo and started playing at ROWSDOWER
 Now everyone from all quenue servers, will be throw into ROWSDOWER, making it worse than PERGO.
 Just open another PVP server to prevent ROWSDOWER became another QUENUE HELL please	
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A note on Rowsdower - In the event that Rowsdower becomes overloaded, we are prepared to open new PvP Realms that Rowsdower players would be able to transfer to.
 
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			Devs..someone...please..I beg you to respond to me, it's completely ruining my game experience being separate from the guild I wanted to play the game with I have no issue paying to go back to pergo if you want me to but I don't know the chances of my continued play if I can't get back to the server with my main. I would feel crushed	
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			Any word on more servers for PVE? Also is there a current list of all servers available?	
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Devs..someone...please..I beg you to respond to me, it's completely ruining my game experience being separate from the guild I wanted to play the game with I have no issue paying to go back to pergo if you want me to but I don't know the chances of my continued play if I can't get back to the server with my main. I would feel crushed
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			This is a great idea but still leaves those who noticed what language the realm is too late still stuck. For example I played Ikthia during beta (weekends and open) so I immediatly joined that realm, I just carried on when people were talking in german presuming it was just a conversation. So one idea is that you have a option to switch to a realm of specified language and PVP or PVE, this would mean that they could be put into servers that need more people but speak their language. This would mean that you could have some control over who goes to what server and there would be less people stuck in other language servers. Also allow this once every month or some thing like that so people can't just abuse it to get into specific servers.	
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			Myself and my friends created my character on stormfather(french), and being new to mmos did not realise that characters were locked to servers, it just had the lowest queue time, so we created there. Would it be possible to pay to transfer to an English PVE server so that I can understand the language and do group activities? ;/ 	
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			what happens if a transfer my toon from hazak to contagion if i have a toon with the same name their  will i be able to change the toons name?	
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The post states that you can move characters multiple times but only once every 22 hours. So tomorrow you should be able to move back to your guildmates.
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A note on Rowsdower - In the event that Rowsdower becomes overloaded, we are prepared to open new PvP Realms that Rowsdower players would be able to transfer to.A note on Rowsdower - In the event that Rowsdower becomes overloaded, we are prepared to open new PvP Realms that Rowsdower players would be able to transfer to.
A note on Rowsdower - In the event that 
 
Rowsdower becomes overloaded, we are 
 
prepared to open new PvP Realms that 
 
Rowsdower players would be able to 
 
transfer to.I am pretty sure that this extends to ANY destination realm that may go high/full during this time period..... also they mentioned that paid and free transfers will go live at the same time in a previous post.. so if they arent avail.. they wil be soon.... so the FREE transfers are the listed ones, if you want to go from Widow--->Pago or one of the new servers to a different new server.. i believe you will be able to do it soon....2 days ago people were flipping out for a free transfer to anywhere with the idea we wouldnt get it for at least a month... 2 days later here we are with free transfers i was a HUGE complainer... no white knight here... but im seeing progress... fast progress... and im impressed... so ive put a sock in it... and am watching patiently before i decide 	
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			Any word Zhul? I'm sure there is more than one group of friends/guilds mates that are separated on Hazak - Zhul. Was hoping transfers might help us out... 	
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I am in the same situation as many others in this thread.
 
Me and my friends decided before the headstart that we would all play on Hazak. Now i had more time to level the first day than others and they hit the queue wall when they logged in again. The day after i was at level 30 something and they said they didnt want to sit in a queue for 14 hours to play, which i agreed that's ridiculous.
Now i would really much like to play with them but i refuse to level again cause frankly the leveling is boring.	
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			most of these peoples problems would of been solved with patience Not saying this to troll Just glad that after i rolled on pergo (during the 15 minutes it was medium pop) .. i decided not to roll anything else and chill out if i couldnt get in .... now i have one level 20 that i can take to a low pop if my guildees decide its transfer time... and no worries otherwiseReally hope that people who rolled on a low pop and want to move get to.. but im also glad i didnt rush and make 4-5 different characters that all ended up lvl 7-14 in the passed few days	
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Thank you for the welcome and necessary solution.
I would add a walkthrough guide to the pinned post for transfer	
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Just a question Carbine......
 
 
If server transfers are being from allowed from existing full pop server to high pop/ full pop server what's the point?  If there is already a queue of 5 hours on Stormtalon and you allow transfers to Mikos which has a queue 
2 hours how is this helping to alleviate overcrowding?  I don't understand the logic in this scenario.  Wouldn't opening a new PvE server for transfers only from certain realms be more efficient?  
 
Biggest issue we have is a guild full of people not able to play together as the queue times make the game inaccessible for 
several of our players.  Just hoping we can find a way to get everyone available to play together ( as I am sure many other groups are running into the same issue).   
 
NOT TROLLING HERE....just trying to formula a play to get all our players together.  Thanks for the continued updates, info and support.	
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What about all the groups that got split up between Hazak and Ravenous / Zhur in EU? They have no way of joining up because Rav and Zhur are stuck on their servers. 
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I back from work after 12 h, and see something like this ... 
 
Could you make transfers from Hazak to Zhur ? I can pay for it .. just let us play normally with friends =/
It's just unplayable for ppl who cant log before back from work / school .. w/e.	
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Ok, but what if my all friends play on ZHUR and im stack in HAZAK, when will be option to transfer there? =/
 
I started before them and now I'm 28 lvl, but they go to ZHUR, because 5-7 h waiting for HAZAK...
 
 
Qunie
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Yeah this is my situation. It's all well and good giving us a route off Hazak, but the other half of my friends who were forced to roll on Zhur when it was low pop, they are now stuck there?
This is a bloody band aid not a cure.
/utterly unimpressed.
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			Will it be possible to transfer back to Hazak? Since there were no language indicators when choosing realms to transfer to i went to a  FR server which i dont speak in any way, i´ve submited a ticket to transfer me back so i can go to a new english server instead.	
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 also they mentioned that paid and free transfers will go live at the same time in a previous post.. so if they arent avail.. they wil be soon....
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			Cougar made a point of mentioning that this is now a tool in their available toolset which makes me think (for those that this isn't the perfect solution) that once they work through these more urgent moves they'll be able to reassess and open up more free options and then available paid options. 	
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			Is there going to be a character transfer interface available in account management? Sitting through 3 hours of queues only to transfer a character kinda sucks...	
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Cougar made a point of mentioning that this is now a tool in their available toolset which makes me think (for those that this isn't the perfect solution) that once they work through these more urgent moves they'll be able to reassess and open up more free options and then available paid options. 
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			do we have to queue on hazak to change to another server? 	
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			Great. Now I just gotta get through the 6 hour queue.	
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do we have to queue on hazak to change to another server? 
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			Please fix it so we can actually Transfer. I get an error "This character is unavailable to transfer at this time". I have emptied everything and quit my guild. I know if i send an mail to myself the message changes.  	
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Cougar made a point of mentioning that this is now a tool in their available toolset which makes me think (for those that this isn't the perfect solution) that once they work through these more urgent moves they'll be able to reassess and open up more free options and then available paid options. 
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No.
No. 
No.
 
Why would you want to clutter the server even more then it already is? Why would you want to do that?
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			We need to be able to move to ALL realms from ANY realm on the same region. 	
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I don't see why they don't just allow free transfers across all servers for the first month, and then re-evaluate the situation and decide how to proceed from there. All guilds can reunite, and most people will naturally try to move out of the queues not into them, thereby balancing server loads. At the end of the month (or whatever timeframe they feel is appropriate) Carbine can lock transfers to servers they feel are overpopulated, and if it's really necessary they can always give incentives to move to lower pop servers (e.g. boom boxes or other fluff). 
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			I don't get it, had to move to Eko as queues on Ascendancy, then moved to Archon when I couldn't get into Eko, not much but my level 12 is sat in Eko alone, I just want to move across to Archon so I can get started on the one realm.	
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			Great, I still get to wait in queue to even transfer realms... I'll transfer to get 50 but will probably take a paid transfer back into civilization for end game. That is, unless this trend continues and I'll just let my account rot after the free month.	
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Paid transfers? They had better be bloody joking.
If my friends are forced to pay for Carbines idiotic lack of planning then that's the last straw for me,
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Great, I still get to wait in queue to even transfer realms... I'll transfer to get 50 but will probably take a paid transfer back into civilization for end game. That is, unless this trend continues and I'll just let my account rot after the free month.
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			Suggestion: Right now you can only transfer from the character screen. Wouldn't it be clever to have the option of transfer servers while you are in queue. People are more likely to decide to transfer when they are angry. Additionally some more players would notice this feature.	
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Suggestion: Right now you can only transfer from the character screen. Wouldn't it be clever to have the option of transfer servers while you are in queue. People are more likely to decide to transfer when they are angry. Additionally some more players would notice this feature.
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			Can't they just implement an overflow system with the next patch?	
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			How does the Realm transfer handle if I have a character of the same name on the Realm I'm moving to? Will I be prompted to change the name or will it over-write the character?	
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I like that you are doing something, but will this really help that much with queue times ?
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			Do you have to stay logged on while your characters are waiting to be transfered or can you exit the game and come back later?	
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And where is transfer to Hazak? My guild is on Hazak and I am playing alone.
 
Thanks Carbine.	
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			Are these still working? I no longer see the option on Stormtalon.	
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Will I be notified in any way when my transfer is ready to go? Or do i just sit in the que on the source server a bunch of times until my chars have some option to complete transfer? i sent my main char (lvl18) and 3 alts, all lvl 1 to Rowsdower from Widow.  They are all locked.  Just hoping to know when i can continue clawing Chua :)
 
 
EDIT: 3 hours later I have successfully transfered servers. Still states my chars are on the old server (Widow) in the server selection but they are present on Rowsdower.
 
Thank you, and I hope to play as much WildStar as possible in my free time, rather than sitting in hour long Q's. :)	
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			Yeah its nice that you guys are helping those servers but there's been a 1k queue on warbringer last few days as well(pre launch mind you) and I can only imagine this is going to get worse after launch, hopefully some new servers get opened and Warbringer will get its free transfers as well :)	
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I originally rolled on Caretaker, but once it filled up I pretty much abandoned my character and started over.  Now, the valve's opened and the overflow is coming to my new server.. which is now filling up. (and lagging... :()
 
I'd really prefer not to have to roll another new character.
 
Instead of a set list - is it not possible to simply allow anyone to transfer from "A" to "B" as long as "A Population" > "B Population" ?  Then I could just stay ahead of the crowds (assuming you add new servers if they all hit the "High" mark)
 
 	
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Quick Question Carbine.
 
How long will this free realm service last?
 
Just got home from a long day of work and I have to wait in Que for 4 hours. I sadly do not have that time, and I can't transfer till I wait it out. So i was wondering how long will this service last?	
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			and still no PVP LABEL FOR WIDOW OR ANY BLOODT PVP SERVER FOR THAT MATTER	
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			Is it normal for my character to be "Locked" after I initiated a free server transfer? Is this a common bug? no big deal? Do I need to contact someone? I would love to just know whats going on. Thank you	
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/yawn
sick and tired of the queue.
 
Killing any and all enjoyment and enthusiasm I had to play this :/
Why are the PVP servers without any LABELS?!?!?!?!?!?!
 
PLEASE DEVS ANSWER!	
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			Hi, Any chance to have free transfer from Eko as well?	
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This
Allow free transfers from Zhur and Rave aswell. Both of them are "full" anyway (...).
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Dear devs, thank you for what you're doing! The game's amazing, the transfer's right on time, and so on.
 
But could you, please, update the forum with the new servers sections? 
so that those who've transferred could share their queue-free expierience, guilds could recruit etc.	
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QFT. Ravenous is very full now and (at least yesterday) queues happened for me on Ravenous, but not other PVP servers.
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			What will happen about my character? I'm stuck on a DE Realm Ikthia and I'm English...not good	
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Whilst this is a welcome change to mitigate server queues, it doesn't solve one of the primary issues created by the server queues in the first place.
 
I created my character on Zhur, 8 hours after my friend had created his character on Ascendancy (due to Hazak having a 20 hour queue at the time) - with restrictive realm transfers in place, it is still impossible for us to play this game together. The reply above my own also highlights an issue where players have had to create characters on realms with different languages than their own due to server queues, which is obviously not an ideal situation.	
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			Once all the realms are sorted out and theres no more over population will there be a way to transfer again to other servers? Cause i used my free transfer just so i can get my leveling done but can we do a paid server transfer later? is that going to be an option?	
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How about a move for those of us who were forced to roll on Zhur as it was the only server available (either PVE or PVP) and were then locked to it all weekend.
 
Ideally I'd like to move my character to a PVE realm like Archon.  Is this likely to be an option?
 
Without any accurate information about what will happen, it's hard to tell if I should simpy reroll on Archon, or continue playing my main on Zhur and transfer him off later.	
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			Yeah i would also like to know if its going to be possible to switch from a FRENCH server to a ENGLISH. Im on Triton FR because i wanted to play the game from the begining without queue.	
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			Sadly, this is not the RIFT system with a free and instant transfers between all servers... :(	
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			Waiting in my 2 - 3 hour que to get into Hazak to then be able to Transfer to another server lol XD , Its a pain waiting to be able to transfer, But I highly appreciate the fact that you've offered us all a free Transfer :D , Thank you Carbine :D :P XD - 	
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Dear Dev you are doing great work and also great game...
But we need more transfer option then Hazak > to XY server ... I have half guild on Contagion after transfer from Hazak and half is still on Zhur. This is realy bad situation for us...
Can you give us some hope pls? Cause its really bad for our morale... 	
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Greetings! I appear to be having an issue with the realm transfer and haven't had any luck finding a solution here on the forums.
 
I'm trying to transfer from Caretaker > Orias, but I keep getting a "Character unavailable for transfer" error. I'm not in a guild, circle, arena team, etc. I also have no mail or auctions. The only thing I have on my character are the items in the account inventory (boom boxes, pre-order items, etc), but didn't think those would still affect the transfer. Beyond that, I do have one friend in my social panel, but I even removed them to make sure and still wasn't able to transfer. I know from this post:
 https://forums.wildstar-online.com/forums/index.php?/topic/62048-unable-to-transfer-character-to-another-server/
 
that I'm not the only one having this issue. Anyone have any solutions?	
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			Transfers are a very nice step but it needs to be backed up by making it so that we are able to start the transfer process from the site and not via a 3K queue.Also you should close character creation on the Super duper High Server population servers like Hazak and others so the whole transfer initiative won't go to waste.	
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			I need to transfer from Eko to a PvP Server...Could this ever be possible please? ^^	
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That's really cool! What if you picked a low pop server but then realized all the people you want to play with are on a high or full realm but want to go there anyway... I'm willing to pay for a transfer, if necessary.
 
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Hey everyone, as you can imagine we’ve been seeing calls for Free RealmTransfers on the forums, reddit on the live-stream. We’ve been working hard to make sure we take a measured approach to this delicate process...
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			Where has the server transfer box gone too, I decided to do it tonight, and there is no box to click. Is this a bug just been created with the EU Authenicating server being down earlier.. Lets See if the Devs are listening :)	
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			It's been a couple of days now and thought there would have been some sort of update to the transfer list. Really hope they remove some of the limitations soon, need to transfer off PvE and on to PvP server asap!	
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I'd seriously at this point pay 50 dollars for a transfer to where my guild is... this is by far the most annoying thing I've seen in any mmo.
 
Transfers only allowed from x server to y server? Which Muppet thought of that one...?
 
SO again, I'll PAY 50 US dollars to transfer at this point if that's any incentive to help us all...	
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Can't transfer because some items are glitched on my mail ~
Any solution to it?	
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			So, I am trying to transfer out of Widow and it says I can't because I'm in a guild. To leave my guild. I am NOT in a guild.  Please help.	
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So, I am trying to transfer out of Widow and it says I can't because I'm in a guild. To leave my guild. I am NOT in a guild.  Please help.
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I'd seriously at this point pay 50 dollars for a transfer to where my guild is... this is by far the most annoying thing I've seen in any mmo.
 
Transfers only allowed from x server to y server? Which Muppet thought of that one...?
 
SO again, I'll PAY 50 US dollars to transfer at this point if that's any incentive to help us all...
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Are you in a circle or arena teams? I made that mistake and couldn't figure it out for awhile.
 
On a side note, my name is taken on the transfer realm and I don't know what will happen to my transfer character now.
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I am unable to transfer off of caretaker. When I do, it gives me an error saying this character can't be transferred at this time. Am I doing something wrong?
 
Nothing in mailbox
Nothing in both Auction Houses
No guild
No arena
No circles
 
I followed everything you asked. Just want to know if something is wrong.
 
Thanks for reading.	
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Can i get a developer response to this?
 
I am an oceanic player favoring to play on an oceanic pvp server and now I am stuck on Myrcalus PvE as I got deceived by the Oceanic label.
There is also no word on a oceanic pvp server either.
 
My friends are playing on Widow PvP .
 
What do i do? Can i continue playing on my main in Myrcalus and hope for a transfer to play with my friend?
This is ruining my experience, it sucks that there is two barriers 
1) transferring from a PvE to PvP server which should not be a big deal but I understand why some see it as an "Issue"
2) no foreseeable transfers from anywhere to Widow + no server to really call home to
 
You guys really need to open up realm transfers so people can allocate themselves properly rather then having restrictions that in the end don't allow
for players to come together properly.	
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			Is the house transfered with charracter or is it lost/cleared?	
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			Is the transfer still possible? i can't see it on my character screen	
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Приветствую!Accidentally moved my character to another server! Can I ask to transfer my character (impuls) back to Astsendantsy (now at Archon)!
P.s. I'm hastened...	
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Приветствую!Accidentally moved my character to another server! Can I ask to transfer my character (impuls) back to Astsendantsy (now at Archon)!
P.s. I'm hastened...
 
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Think you'd need to contact support to get that issue resolved.
 
GB
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Did not find exactly where to write to them! Can you give me a link?)
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Hey Guys
 
I'm not seeing a button to transfer at the character switch screen. I'm currently at Hazzak and wanna move to Cortagion.	
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			I would like to know if its going to be able to character realm switch from a FR PVE to a EN PVE realm in the near future.	
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This shit is dumb man. I have two group of friends on different servers. And both of them want to get to the same server. But one group is on Pago and can only transfer to Rowsdown or something. And the other group is on Bloodsworn and can't transfer anywhere.
 
How that happen. One group started with early access. They choose Pago. Lack of communication. The second group see's lots of full servers and choose bloodsworn. Now my we are all like. F. Come on man. Let bloodsworn transfer to another server... or let others transfer to bloodsworn.	
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			I must say that since this was implemented, my queue times have diminished significantly.  May not be perfect, mind you, but it seems to be working.	
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			Two and a half days later and no response anywhere on the forums or on my support ticket about the unspecified error preventing me and numerous others from transferring any characters from Caretaker to Orias. What's the deal?	
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According to support:
 
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Here are some of the reasons why your character was unable to transfer – 
 *   Pending mail
 *   Pending auctions
 *   Pending transactions on the Commodities Exchange
 *   Leader or Member of an Arena Team,
 *   Leader or Member of a Circle
 *   Leader or Member of a Guild
 *   Leader or Member of a Warparty
 
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Two and a half days later and no response anywhere on the forums or on my support ticket about the unspecified error preventing me and numerous others from transferring any characters from Caretaker to Orias. What's the deal?
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I'd seriously at this point pay 50 dollars for a transfer to where my guild is... this is by far the most annoying thing I've seen in any mmo.
 
Transfers only allowed from x server to y server? Which Muppet thought of that one...?
 
SO again, I'll PAY 50 US dollars to transfer at this point if that's any incentive to help us all...
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I'm also on Caretaker trying to go to Orias. :(
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This shit is dumb man. I have two group of friends on different servers. And both of them want to get to the same server. But one group is on Pago and can only transfer to Rowsdown or something. And the other group is on Bloodsworn and can't transfer anywhere.
 
How that happen. One group started with early access. They choose Pago. Lack of communication. The second group see's lots of full servers and choose bloodsworn. Now my we are all like. F. Come on man. Let bloodsworn transfer to another server... or let others transfer to bloodsworn.
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			How about fractions change?	
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Why on earth would they offer free server x-fers from whatever server to whatever server when the aim is to relieve queues on specific servers and build up others?
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			can i move from a eu to a en	
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Hey everyone, as you can imagine we’ve been seeing calls for Free RealmTransfers on the forums, reddit on the live-stream. We’ve been working hard to make sure we take a measured approach to this delicate process.  So in an effort to bring relief to some of our most populated Realms, we are offering free Realm Transfers off of these Realms and onto some of the lesser populated Realms. Once the server maintenance is complete on June 3rd, 12:00AM PDT, you will have the option to transfer your characters from the following Realms:
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			I'm trying to transfer to Contagion from Hazak but I have 2 bugged out quest items stuck in my mailbox, I cant take them or delete the mail, it says "quest violation" each time. I've submitted support tickets and tried to contact other support but basically looks like i'm being ignored.	
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I am unable to transfer to new realm. I have put in multiple tickets but nothing has been done. All the players I play with have transferred to Rowdowser, but each time I try I get a message that says 'This character is currently in a guild. Leave or disabnd your guild and try again.'
I am not in a guild, circle, party, or anything else that I can see. Has anyone else run into this and gotten it fixed somehow?	
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Because the FROM one is Full and the TO one is Low Pop.
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Really what they should do is let anyone transfer from x to y as long as x.population > y.population, instead of structured moves
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It's not y that needs the population boost, it's z, and if everyone wants to go to y, the problem will still persist. With z being the only destination off the highest population realms, the population of z will rise. Once the realms have settled down, there will be paid realm transfers.
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I'm just disappointed with the lack of communication. I have friends on Bloodsworn, and I made characters on Warbringer before Bloodsworn even existed. By the time this server-transfer option had come out, I was already well into level 30+. What a great headstart for the pre-orders. Basically wasted the three full days.
 
This is pretty unprofessional. Especially since I'd already opened a number of character-bound items and used them on my house, or my character, or whatever, and now the only option is to remake, because neither of these servers are getting a transfer option. This isn't a case of someone "going to the lowest population server, then transferring when the queues die down". It's a case of miscommunication, and generally keeping the fanbase in the dark. The reason they chose Bloodsworn was because Warbringer was full. The reason I chose Warbringer was because Bloodsworn didn't exist. Now, both sides are well into leveling, and you're expecting one side to cave and accept it?
 
At the very least, give us feedback regarding whether this kind of situation will be mended, because I'd rather not make my main character in a server that has no one on it, especially when I don't know what's going to happen. But I also don't want to reroll if I know I'll be losing all this progress, the items and time invested, only for the server transfer option to come through, and I've lost even more time that could have been spent more efficiently.	
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I disagree.  There will always be those that are happy to go to a less populated server to ensure they don't have to queue.  By letting folks transfer anywhere as long as their destination is of a lower population than their current server, the system naturally balances.  Right now what happens is multiple overloaded servers are being pointed to a single destination and negatively impacting the target server.
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For Caretaker to Orias People:
 
I finally got a reply back on my ticket. Unfortunately it was utterly useless and just repeated information we already know. The response is quoted below. I'll continue to update the thread as I learn more.
 
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Hello,
You have indicated that you have a question about a Realm Transfer so I wanted to provide you with several common questions and answers pertaining to realm transfers. If these topics do not address your particular question, please update your ticket and we’ll assist you as quickly as possible.
Can Customer Support Manually Transfer Me?
While CS is not manually moving characters from one realm to another, I would encourage you to take advantage of the free realm transfers that are currently being offered. For additional information about which realms you can transfer to, please visithttps://forums.wildstar-online.com/forums/index.php?/topic/60957-free-realm-transfers/.
I Can’t Transfer My Character
There could be several reasons that you are unable to transfer your character. The following short list has the most common reasons that characters cannot be transferred:
Pending mailPending auctionsPending transactions on the Commodities ExchangeLeader or Member of an Arena TeamLeader or member of a CircleLeader or Member of a GuildLeader or Member of a Warparty
Will There be Paid Realm Transfers?
At this time we don’t have any information about when or if paid realm transfers will be available. Please keep an eye on the news page of our website though at http://www.wildstar-online.com/en/news/ as anything new and exciting will be announced there!
Take care,
 
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			This solution is too small. Open it up to all realms. This is unacceptable.	
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For Caretaker to Orias People:
 
I finally got a reply back on my ticket. Unfortunately it was utterly useless and just repeated information we already know. The response is quoted below. I'll continue to update the thread as I learn more.
 
 
Hopefully they will make a statement about this bug to at least let us know what is going on.
 
Yogitus
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Another Caretaker--->Orias person who can't transfer, and I just got the same response on my support ticket. It'd be nice to get some acknowledgement about the issue.
 
My friends have already rolled on Orias to beat the launch week queue, but now that the queue on Caretaker has gotten better, I'm worried that server transfers will be closed before I can get my character through  :unsure:	
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FOR REAL THIS IS YOUR LAME SOLUTION?
 
THE ONLY SOLUTION IS MOBILITY BETWEEN SERVERS WITH TOONS SHEESH HOW HARD IS IT TO UNDERSTAND THIS!!
 
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They fed me the same BS response. It's like the support people are not even reading our tickets and just copy pasting canned responses. I think the Carbine Dev's are awesome, but their support staff are halfassing the tickets. Seriously a response stating we are unsure of why you cannot transfer and we will look into it. Would have been 1000% better than a canned response.
 
This is the exact support request I submitted.
 
"I am trying to use the Free Character Transfer, but everytime that I do so, it gives me an error stating that this character is unavaible for the Transfer. I waited 18 hours and tried again to receive the same message.
I have verified the following: No Pending Mail No Pending Auctions No Pending Transactions on the Commodities Exchange Not in an Arena Team Not in a Circle Not in a Guild Not in a Warparty
Please help I would like to transfer off of Caretaker."
 
And this is the canned BS response I got.
 
Hello,
You have indicated that you have a question about a Realm Transfer so I wanted to provide you with several common questions and answers pertaining to realm transfers. If these topics do not address your particular question, please update your ticket and we’ll assist you as quickly as possible.
Can Customer Support Manually Transfer Me?
While CS is not manually moving characters from one realm to another, I would encourage you to take advantage of the free realm transfers that are currently being offered. For additional information about which realms you can transfer to, please visithttps://forums.wildstar-online.com/forums/index.php?/topic/60957-free-realm-transfers/.
I Can’t Transfer My Character
There could be several reasons that you are unable to transfer your character. The following short list has the most common reasons that characters cannot be transferred:
Pending mailPending auctionsPending transactions on the Commodities ExchangeLeader or Member of an Arena TeamLeader or member of a CircleLeader or Member of a GuildLeader or Member of a Warparty
Will There be Paid Realm Transfers?
At this time we don’t have any information about when or if paid realm transfers will be available. Please keep an eye on the news page of our website though at http://www.wildstar-online.com/en/news/ as anything new and exciting will be announced there!
Take care,
 
And That was after waiting for 4 days for them to respond.	
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@Raijinn or @Cougar, why is this same logic not being used to deal with those of us who were affected by the "unable to use reserved name" issue on headstart launch day?  We are now stuck with temporary names that we can't change unless we pay an EXTRA $19.99 to work around your mistake?  It should be the same thought process for both issues - people made toons on random servers just to be able to play during headstart, and now the dust has settled you're offering a realm change, and the same logic should apply to the names.
 
Why aren't you just gifting us a single free name change that we can use ourselves after the name reservation period expires on June 17th?
 
It seems like the devs here are sensible folk with sensible answers to things, but the support staff are absolutely awful.  Tickets just get canned responses that don't answer the question, and leave people hanging not knowing what to do.	
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Hello, I have submitted a few tickets trying to resolve an issue I am having with a piece of mail in mailbox. My tickets have been "answered" but literally NOTHING has been resolved! The piece of mail contains two items that I can't take and I get an error that says "Quest Violation". Every option is greyed out, also.
 
I can delete other pieces of mail(gold spammers) but I cannot delete this one in particular and I am trying to transfer with my guild to Rowsdower... I would love for this to be resolved, I sent my first ticket in 4 days ago. 
 
I am level 40 would like to xfer pls <3	
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			Also trying to transfer from Caretaker to Orias and getting the error.  I have no mail, dropped guild, not in a party, nothing on the market, all that jazz.  I should be good to go.  Tried with two different characters and both get the error.	
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Also trying to transfer from Caretaker to Orias and getting the error.  I have no mail, dropped guild, not in a party, nothing on the market, all that jazz.  I should be good to go.  Tried with two different characters and both get the error.
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			Sent a tweet about transfers from Caretaker to Orias not working, to Stephan Frost	
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			Is there anyway for me to transfer from Stormfather (FR) realm to an English one. I have asked support but they just directed me to this thread. Played on this character till about level 13 and claimed a couple items then realised it was a french realm (yeah stupid for not noticing the FR), I'm not french and everyone tells me to move its not particuarly fun after spending £50 to buy this game.	
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FOR REAL THIS IS YOUR LAME SOLUTION?
 
THE ONLY SOLUTION IS MOBILITY BETWEEN SERVERS WITH TOONS SHEESH HOW HARD IS IT TO UNDERSTAND THIS!!
 
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This solution is too small. Open it up to all realms. This is unacceptable.
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Wow then dont play. They are doing what they can when they can to do this carefully as to not screw up everything and make the servers ghost towns. If this is so unacceptable to you go to school for game design beg for some starter money yourself and make your own game where u can get the solutions u want.
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			I just wonder if i will ever able to trasnfer from the Ikthia server to an another EU server, i'm not deutch and at the launch (headstart) the 2 global server were both full, i could only played on the DE or FR servers.. Now i'm lv 36 and you know.. i don't wanna restart my adventure just becouse i'm not able to transfer my character..	
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			Is there gonna be payable transfers in the future? I made a grave mistake to choose a pvp server (Zhur) and my friends (with guild) choose to play at Eko....(pve)	
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I just wonder if i will ever able to trasnfer from the Ikthia server to an another EU server, i'm not deutch and at the launch (headstart) the 2 global server were both full, i could only played on the DE or FR servers.. Now i'm lv 36 and you know.. i don't wanna restart my adventure just becouse i'm not able to transfer my character..
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Still no word on the Caretaker->Orias issues. I've sent a few tweets now to perhaps get an answer that way. If anyone is having the issue on Caretaker, please go to my Caretaker specific post and make a comment (Link) . Tell any friends you have to do the same if they are experiencing the issue too. It might be a bug and in that case our issue has been classified as such. In that case consider the ticket response to bug reports:
 
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Unfortunately, because we have such a large volume of tickets in our system, ones marked as 'bugs' are given the lowest priority. If this is an issue that caused to you lose an item, or is preventing you from progressing through the game, please either reply to this email describing the issue in more detail, or submit another ticket with a different category. 
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Caretaker->Orias folks,
 
The server transfer is now functioning according to at least two of us who had the Character is Unavailable for Transfer bug.
 
Should work now.
 
Yogitus	
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			Will there be anything opening up int he future for Faction transfer? I know other games have this feature and i have a few friends playing a different faction than i am. Will faction change be something to look forward into the future. If so Near or far?	
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Will there be anything opening up int he future for Faction transfer? I know other games have this feature and i have a few friends playing a different faction than i am. Will faction change be something to look forward into the future. If so Near or far?
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			 -_- looks like i will have to pay to transfer my character...... :angry: or maybe ill just unsub	
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			or you can just reroll, not a big loss after 10days.	
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 -_- looks like i will have to pay to transfer my character...... :angry: or maybe ill just unsub
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Do you publicly pout and threaten to storm out of a store if they don't have a discount on something you want to buy? Because that's essentially what you're doing here.
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If I went into a travel agency and bought two airline tickets, only to discover that my girlfriend got bumped to a different flight due to a miscalculation, I would make a scene yes. Particularly if they told me I had to pay the difference in fare to join her.
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If you bought a ticket to Paris, but realized you really wanted to go to London as you were boarding the plane, would you return to the ticket counter to exchange tickets - or fly to Paris anyway and demand a free flight to London? Because that's a better analogy in this specific case.
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Yeah you're right, that's a better analogy in this case unfortunately :)
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People paid for this game. The service during the first three days of playing (aka, the pre-oder headstart) was, to be blunt, borderline horrible. The server state initially was horrible. The least they can do is allow friends to play with friends, whom may have been secluded due to the horrible server management. If there was going to be a 'ghost town', it wouldn't have existed in the first place, assuming they'd handled their servers better.
 
By the way, their servers can handle a LOT more than than what they're doing. But the guy in charge of their capacity planning doesn't seem to want to let that happen. I'm not going to judge, though.
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			Can anyone give me a free Redeem Code by any Chance?	
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			I have a question. That said will transfer every 22 hours. But i already wait three days, when i use paid transfer, that said i can't transfer at this time.	
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			I am wondering if the people who do not live in Oceanic timezones will get a free transfer out of the Oceanic realm(s) the game auto-assigned us? When I started the game up on launch day, it automatically put me on the Myrcalus realm. On the character creation screen it shows NO INDICATION of it being an Oceanic server. It just says "Myrcalus(PVE)" at the top for realm info. So I thought it put me on a medium population PVE server, which is what I wanted. Instead I am now stuck on a realm that is dead 90% of the time I am awake and playing.  :(	
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			woot	
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			When will we be open to transfer TO servers like Pergo? Would like to bring my main to a server where PvP is not dead.	
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			do i keep all my currency and renown and stuff?	
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When will we be open to transfer TO servers like Pergo? Would like to bring my main to a server where PvP is not dead.
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			This is great but the option to transfer from a PvP to a PvE server would be apreciated. I play in hazak and I'm tired of being attacked while at low hp. Sometimes I just wanna quest and its irritating. The thing is i didnt know that the flag system worked in a pve server so i went to hazak with the set of mind of pvp'ing at lvl cap. Whitevale is taking more time than it should because im rushing to the town whenever i get on hp.	
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			I don't understand why I am able to pay for a transfer to Pago, however not pay for a transfer to Pergo. Both realms are currently offering free transfers off, however Pergo is still locked for incoming?	
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I don't understand why I am able to pay for a transfer to Pago, however not pay for a transfer to Pergo. Both realms are currently offering free transfers off, however Pergo is still locked for incoming?
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So in a few days free month will be over and more servers will became low. Can we pls have free transfers from low (at least those who are always low even while prime time) to mid servers? No one wants to play in a ghost town and a month after launch is way too soon to pay for a server transfer.
Thank you	
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I second that. Archon is already low at all times, and it's not going to get better come next sub-cycle.
 
edit: Nevermind, seems there's something like that in effect already. Now to see if it actually works.
 
edit edit: double nevermind, and it seems like Carbine has no plans on doing this either. Well, good thing I hadn't subbed yet.	
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			It's been more than 24 hours and I still CANNOT login to my transfered character. I also have zero response from support. Any kind of information would be appreciated...	
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			NcSoft started this crap with Aion right after beta then after they forced servers to merge causing chaos and legions(Guilds) to break up and freinds to be forced on other servers and people losing toon names. I thought NcSoft would have learned from mistakes previously made but I guess not =( So sad.	
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Sad to say but I see it all happening again. Really really sad to see this repeat itself. Aion Beta. Buy headstart paying extra cash to get your name. (Preorder in WS case) Then being forced to move to a new server 3 - 4 months later while losing your name to someone that did not buy Headstart or preorder, Then after 2 years paying full subscription price they will go FTP and then take away all your veteran rewards (No Veteran Rewards yet in WS) after paying them for years. This is standard treatment of NcSoft to paying customers.
 
Same crap happened in CoH/Cov by NcSoft	
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			What happens if you tranfer to a server and your current name is taken there?	
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What happens if you tranfer to a server and your current name is taken there?
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			Use to be a option to transfer on the character screen, but it's no longer there. Isn't the free service still offered to leave Ascendancy?	
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			Where I can find the transfer character service opintion? On the select character screen? I didn't find it. Is the free service still offered? Is the free service over? Do I need to pay for transfer? And only high popular realms can transfer to low pupular realms? Cannot transfer from low popular realms to high popular realms?	
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I would like to echo the concerns about Archon being too low.
 
I made my character roughly 2 weeks ago, most of the Realms were on 'low' at that point. I chose Archon simply because I played Starcraft 2 and it's a unit in that game.. did not do enough research I guess.
 
Now I hit lvl 50 and I have 10+ quests in my questbar that require groups of 5, and I can't do them because there are never 5 people looking to complete them.. even in Grimvault, it's completely deserted.
 
I'm Exile, apparently it's even worse for the Dominion. 
 
I want to raid eventually, it's not looking likely on Archon though, will we get a free transfer or a server merge?	
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Where I can find the transfer character service opintion? On the select character screen? I didn't find it. Is the free service still offered? Is the free service over? Do I need to pay for transfer? And only high popular realms can transfer to low pupular realms? Cannot transfer from low popular realms to high popular realms?
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Free transfers ended on June 30. You can pay to transfer to a high pop servers if you wish; but not PVE --> PVP.
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something needs to be done about the low pop servers EU, the amount of players appears to have dropped significantly, with hazak being the only one reasonably populated server (EU)
 
i'm on zhur and it's a ghosttown at all hours of the day, low pop during peak times	
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I made a server transfer from Zhur to Hazak, but things are going worse every day. Payed transfers are not a solution. Its too soon to ask ppl to pay, only a month after release, 17$ for a server transfer in order to play on a non-ghost town server.
Most ppl are not making transfers, they just quit. As we speak in EU (20.24 hours) 5 servers are medium and 15 low and its still the first month after release. Make something FAST.	
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I made a server transfer from Zhur to Hazak, but things are going worse every day. Payed transfers are not a solution. Its too soon to ask ppl to pay, only a month after release, 17$ for a server transfer in order to play on a non-ghost town server.
Most ppl are not making transfers, they just quit. As we speak in EU (20.24 hours) 5 servers are medium and 15 low and its still the first month after release. Make something FAST.
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			Luckily I bought the game few days ago and started playing on Archon, got to Lv 11, no-one was there and then I created new character on Ascendancy. Luckily, here's population situation much better, because I actually see players everywhere.	
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Indeed. I was unfortunate enough to transfer from Ascendancy to Archon because my friends play on Archon. Well Archon is a ghost town (as made clear by the topics on our realm forum). We have all our alts here and I am really missing the vibe and cummunity feel of a full and thriving realm  :(.
 
What we need is either a merge or free transfers off this empty realm. 
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Just merge them. Its so obvious servers needs to be merged, that i cant really understand the point of this conversation, or even the Community managers comments.
Just merge them or give free transfer to ppl to gather up by their owns in servers. I cant really understand why they keep letting ppl to play in ghost towns. Everyone will quit in the end.	
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			When can we get another free realm transfer to the people who have been playing for a month and are able to see the realms to their liking? We should get a free realm transfer every 3 or 6 months to anywhere without restrictions...this means low population to a high population as well.	
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			I think we should get a free realm trasfer to fill up servers.Archon is a ghost server	
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			i want to transfer from archon, how can i see which servers i can transfer to before buying a realm transfer?	
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			Is it still those select servers that are able to transfer to lower populated servers or has that been updated since the OP? And how long will this last for? Thanks	
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Free xfers ended almost a month ago. Mod please lock this thread, as you can see it's confusing many people.
 
https://forums.wildstar-online.com/forums/index.php?/topic/86750-free-realm-transfer-and-realm-transfer-restrictions-announcement/	
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There are those that would pay for a Realm Transfer..   But I would want to transfer all my characters from a dead server not just one..
I am sure there are more like me who would do this..
 
I am sure Carbine could save some subs by allowing full transfer of all 6 being the max characters from one and only one server to another.
 
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