143776-as-a-returning-player-one-thing-that-really-sucks

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Due to them stopping the free transfers before F2P launched, I've ended up with my characters scattered to the winds, along with having similar with the friend I typically duo with. Our Dominion are on separate servers, our Exiles are on separate servers, my own Dominion are on one while my Exiles are on another, etc.
 
It's pretty frustrating.
 
And even when they re-open Warhound-Entity transfers, I'll have to pay for it.
 
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	Edited October 17, 2015 by Zoralink	
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			And this is somehow not your own fault?	
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			Server transfers were free months before f2p.	
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Server transfers were free months before f2p.
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			Put in a ticket and wait. They are nice people and would prolly xfer you for free once :)	
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Put in a ticket and wait. They are nice people and would prolly xfer you for free once :)
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Somewhat my own, somewhat the fact that they stopped them immediately before F2P, when there would be returning players who used the free transfers despite wanting to stay on their original server, solely because it was a necessity to even remotely enjoy the game.
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This sentence is convoluted as heck, but it seems clear you didn't actually read the announcement about why they ended them. You should, it's still up.
As bad as the game experience was at relaunch, if they'd kept transfers turned on it would have been worse.
As bad as ticket responses have been, if they'd kept transfers on it would have been worse.
When they made transfers free, they made it clear they wouldn't always remain so.
When they announced they were ending, they did so WEEKS before it happened, even if I hadn't been playing but was planning to come back when F2P hit, I would have started watching game announcements. That may be just me, but whatever.
​I'm not trying to make you feel bad, but Carbine really handled this the best way they could, and did so for the best of reasons. Even given all that, you missed out because you slacked, and that's not their fault.
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Server transfers were free months before f2p.
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And this is somehow not your own fault?
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And this is somehow not your own fault?
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Wow are you so arrogant you cannot read the tcs post? What do you think returning player means? 80 percent of people who stop playing an mmorpg do not keep up with whats going on, especially if they plan on moving on to other mmorpgs. You do not expect to come back.
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Actually, transfers were never free. Prior to f2p, people had to be subbed to transfer, which cost $15/month iirc.
 
I'm not arguing with you, BTW. I just wanted to clarify this point for the op so he or she doesn't feel like the players who supported this game prior to f2p got something for nothing.
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And when Transfers launched, you had to pay $15 dollars per character. Then you didn't when they reduced the price to nothing. So let's call the subscription fee the fee for playing the game, and the transfer fee the fee for moving characters from one server to another, because that's what they are. Even then, before F2P was announced, every account had a 10 day free trial attached to it, in case someone wanted to come back and check things out without paying. Those were still good up until the relaunch.
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He never said that's what his plan was. However since he's back now it would be safer to assume he was 'taking a break' which isn't unusual in MMOs, and most people I know who do that keep up with game news to see when something that interests them might mean they decide to come back.
 
Fault might be too strong a word (but I doubt it) but the entire post was looking to blame Carbine for something they handled as well as they could under the circumstances, and in the end is still a situation of the poster's own making.
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He never said that's what his plan was. However since he's back now it would be safer to assume he was 'taking a break' which isn't unusual in MMOs, and most people I know who do that keep up with game news to see when something that interests them might mean they decide to come back.
 
Fault might be too strong a word (but I doubt it) but the entire post was looking to blame Carbine for something they handled as well as they could under the circumstances, and in the end is still a situation of the poster's own making.
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Well this got interesting.
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This sentence is convoluted as heck, but it seems clear you didn't actually read the announcement about why they ended them. You should, it's still up.
As bad as the game experience was at relaunch, if they'd kept transfers turned on it would have been worse.
As bad as ticket responses have been, if they'd kept transfers on it would have been worse.
When they made transfers free, they made it clear they wouldn't always remain so.
When they announced they were ending, they did so WEEKS before it happened, even if I hadn't been playing but was planning to come back when F2P hit, I would have started watching game announcements. That may be just me, but whatever.
​I'm not trying to make you feel bad, but Carbine really handled this the best way they could, and did so for the best of reasons. Even given all that, you missed out because you slacked, and that's not their fault.
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I'm...confused as to how your characters could get shuffled around.  There's only one PvE and one PvP (excluding the temporary sister servers, which are temporary and not going to be around forever) server per region...wouldn't the server merges have kept PvE characters on the PvE server and PvP characters on the PvP server?
 
I'm not entirely sure how your characters could be on the wrong server.	
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I'm...confused as to how your characters could get shuffled around.  There's only one PvE and one PvP (excluding the temporary sister servers, which are temporary and not going to be around forever) server per region...wouldn't the server merges have kept PvE characters on the PvE server and PvP characters on the PvP server?
 
I'm not entirely sure how your characters could be on the wrong server.
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I'm...confused as to how your characters could get shuffled around.  There's only one PvE and one PvP (excluding the temporary sister servers, which are temporary and not going to be around forever) server per region...wouldn't the server merges have kept PvE characters on the PvE server and PvP characters on the PvP server?
 
I'm not entirely sure how your characters could be on the wrong server.
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And this is somehow not your own fault?
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I'm curious as to how it's his fault.
 
If he wasn't here for any of the news then how would he have known anything?
 
I wasn't here either, I didn't know what was going on, how would we?
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Because if you're not actively playing the game, apparently you should follow absolutely all news about the game still.
 
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On the other hand, how is it Carbine's fault you decided to NOT pay attention? If you're not following along, not subbing and didn't care enough to keep your ear to the ground, how - exactly - do you hold the company responsible for continuing to do business when you were gone?
 
No. It's YOUR job to either keep up with the news or to simply deal with the repercussions when you do decide to come back. 	
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On the other hand, how is it Carbine's fault you decided to NOT pay attention? If you're not following along, not subbing and didn't care enough to keep your ear to the ground, how - exactly - do you hold the company responsible for continuing to do business when you were gone?
 
No. It's YOUR job to either keep up with the news or to simply deal with the repercussions when you do decide to come back. 
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Why are you getting so hostile? It isnt his fault as many pointed out, actually read the post above yours and you will understand why. Now I dont know if carbine informed, I thought they did email people but if they didnt then clearly it isnt his fault.
 
People arent time keepers they do not have all the time in the world to keep up with games they no longer player but its nice to know you can come back with all your stuff intact in case  you decide you want to try again.
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On the other hand, how is it Carbine's fault you decided to NOT pay attention? If you're not following along, not subbing and didn't care enough to keep your ear to the ground, how - exactly - do you hold the company responsible for continuing to do business when you were gone?
 
No. It's YOUR job to either keep up with the news or to simply deal with the repercussions when you do decide to come back. 
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And this is somehow not your own fault?
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On the other hand, how is it Carbine's fault you decided to NOT pay attention? If you're not following along, not subbing and didn't care enough to keep your ear to the ground, how - exactly - do you hold the company responsible for continuing to do business when you were gone?
 
No. It's YOUR job to either keep up with the news or to simply deal with the repercussions when you do decide to come back. 
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