Free Character Transfers? I am mistrustful
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Posted on: 2009-12-15 10:10 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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Originally Posted by DumpleBerry
When exactly did they gut the MA?
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As a fellow Triumphant, I think our "little" server will only gain more players since it seems that Triumph players are a pretty weird lot and don't really travel well |
Originally Posted by KingSnake
Nice gesture very much apprenticed. Wondering what will come of this for my little home on Triumph... I, personally don't want to leave, i have names i like, and it's good, albeit small server. Well we get new people, or will people move on to greener pastures leaving us even smaller? Hmm.
I hope the former, but i fear the latter. We shall see... |
. Seriously, I find that we over on Triumph a pretty loyal lot to our server and once people start playing there they generally stick around. The only reason I see people moving alts off of Tri is to make room for new alts for the GR release.
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Huzzah! or some such. Didn't see this coming, but I've been mulling over a transfer recently anyway, so this works for me.
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I tend to think so too. I'm kicking the idea around of moving a few 50's i don't play to more populated servers... just to see what they'er like... maybe make some room, and open up my options, but at the end of the day, i prolly won't. *shrug* I like Triumph. I'll move when they MOVE me. And they'd best let meh keep my names... or there'll be hell to pay i tell you... O.o
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Originally Posted by Az'rial
As a fellow Triumphant, I think our "little" server will only gain more players since it seems that Triumph players are a pretty weird lot and don't really travel well
. Seriously, I find that we over on Triumph a pretty loyal lot to our server and once people start playing there they generally stick around. The only reason I see people moving alts off of Tri is to make room for new alts for the GR release. |
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Yeah I see that also, I know a few player that started rolling alts on our server to get away from the "big" servers. They have fun, a good laugh, and really enjoy the community since, we are all so friendly....well except Karl he bites |
Originally Posted by Az'rial
As a fellow Triumphant, I think our "little" server will only gain more players since it seems that Triumph players are a pretty weird lot and don't really travel well
. Seriously, I find that we over on Triumph a pretty loyal lot to our server and once people start playing there they generally stick around. The only reason I see people moving alts off of Tri is to make room for new alts for the GR release. |
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The worst thing here is not that they wont let you transfer from euro to us servers...
The worst thing here is not the obvious impending doom this foreshadows...
No... the worst here is that we can't copy our beta level bumped characters to the live servers!!! :crazy:
In all seriousness: bye bye Triumph, hello Virtue!!!
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Originally Posted by Mylia
Yeah I see that also, I know a few player that started rolling alts on our server to get away from the "big" servers. They have fun, a good laugh, and really enjoy the community since, we are all so friendly....well except Karl he bites
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I'm not allowed to leave Triumph on account of the pending court cases.
Well transfered over my badgering corr back to union now since the people i used to play with are taking a break and there are not much badging going on redside on defiant.
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Originally Posted by Mylia
Yeah I see that also, I know a few player that started rolling alts on our server to get away from the "big" servers. They have fun, a good laugh, and really enjoy the community since, we are all so friendly....well except Karl he bites
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You seem a bit confused.|
Originally Posted by Scarlet Shocker
So we get an announcement today that we can have a free character transfer, for 6 days. But, we'll lose SGs, Prestige, and all sorts of stuff and possibly our names too.
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You can have a maximum of 6 transfers PER WEEK, until the end of January.
When you transfer, you MIGHT lose your name on the server you just left and it MAY OR MAY NOT be available on your destination server. (You should check in advance.)
You lose NOTHING ELSE. If you're in an SG, you will leave it behind, but it was never one of your possessions. Any prestige stays with the SG, but it wasn't yours - it belonged to the SG the second you earned it. Anything in base storage stays there, because it isn't your possession any longer. Anything ON YOUR PERSON or IN THE AUCTION HOUSE will go with you. For any other details, read here.
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You seem to be confused.|
Originally Posted by Scarlet Shocker
For the person who said "It might be cuz the devs decided to be nice," I'd totally agree - IF you've already got an NA account. To those in the EU it's just another indication that we're really not very important.
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EU and NA customers are receiving exactly the same benefit.
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Originally Posted by Scarlet Shocker
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Originally Posted by Ironblade
You seem to be confused.
EU and NA customers are receiving exactly the same benefit. |
Not that I agree with the OP, but this is equivalent to Obama giving everyone in the world a Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen DVD for the holidays. Sure, everyone gets the same gift, but it's sort of useless to those without a DVD player.
When I first heard/read about it, I must admit... I did become a bit cynical (like Scarlet Shocker).
As we on Europe will not have "that" much use for it, or thoughts of doom etc.. (gah.. don't want to go there!)
But, it is a nice feature (free server transfer).. so good for you on the NA servers.
Although what I'd really like... was merge server lists. Then we'd be talking (not to mention alot of new character slots for everyone... ok mostly for europe, but for Everyone).
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Although I do wonder what would happen to the servers community (different social rules etc)...
Hmm... move a few less used alts to Defiant... hmm *ponder*
Oh yes.. and since GG began rolling the ball.
Welcome all Defiant players to Union, We got your Free cookies here, nice and dark, filled with chocolate goodness and best of all; many of them.
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I think what the OP is trying to say that that being on the EU servers (of which there are 4, two of which are non-English), it has reduced choice if and when it decides to make use of a free transfer. The free transfers seem a lot more limited here compared to the US which has... how many servers, all English language?|
Originally Posted by Ironblade
You seem to be confused.
EU and NA customers are receiving exactly the same benefit. |
Personally, I couldn't give a flying flip, myself.
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| However in failing to do that it's another case of blatant favouritism I'm sad to say. |
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Thanks for at least spotting the sub-text of what I was trying to point out.
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Originally Posted by Lady Arete
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Although I do wonder what would happen to the servers community (different social rules etc)... |
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And naturally the proper response, if you can't use said gift is to spit in the gifter's face and claim they have ulterior motives for giving you something.
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Originally Posted by Karl_Rove_Man
Not that I agree with the OP, but this is equivalent to Obama giving everyone in the world a Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen DVD for the holidays. Sure, everyone gets the same gift, but it's sort of useless to those without a DVD player.
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Originally Posted by Karl_Rove_Man
Not that I agree with the OP, but this is equivalent to Obama giving everyone in the world a Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen DVD for the holidays. Sure, everyone gets the same gift, but it's sort of useless to those without a DVD player.
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Not to mention they'd have to be region specific DVDs, which is kind of appropriate if you think about it.
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True dat, but by the time it rolls around I'll have a few more |
Originally Posted by Golden Girl
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Originally Posted by Basilisk
And naturally the proper response, if you can't use said gift is to spit in the gifter's face and claim they have ulterior motives for giving you something.
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My relationship with Paragon Studios is purely business. I love the game, but I owe them no debt of gratitude or familial kindness. If they tick me off I reserve the right to express that - and I will attempt to do so, within the rules of their own making.
I do not see this as a "gift" in the traditional sense. I actually see it as an insidious attempt to cull certain server numbers and make us smile while it happens. The net result is there will be fewer servers when Going Rogue goes live which will give an artificial sense of population.
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Thank you, TheOcho, and thanks to the Mods, and the Community Reps, and thanks to the Devs, and to Paragon Studios, and NCsoft for this holiday gift.|
Originally Posted by TheOcho
We wanted to give out something nice for Christmas. I know this is a crazy idea, but we kinda like you guys.
We had to take the character transfer service down in order to make the change to make it free, it's not as simple as setting the price to zero. Also we have to test these things of course to make sure that the changes aren't going to do anything bad. |
I personally can't think of a character that I'd be using this on, but I appreciate the thought behind it.
Just realize that there are people that have to invent s*** to b**** about.
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I would hope they'd have more sense than to sound the death knell of any MMO (servers being cut) just when they're trying to get people to invest in GR. |
Originally Posted by Scarlet Shocker
I actually see it as an insidious attempt to cull certain server numbers and make us smile while it happens. The net result is there will be fewer servers when Going Rogue goes live which will give an artificial sense of population.
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I personally suspect this is some kind of stress test; either the going rogue process shares some of the tech used by the server transfer system and they want to see how it works under truely stressful conditions or else they're planning on merging the server lists in the near/distant future and again they want to stress test the system.
Whatever the reason (simple generosity probably being most likely) and in spite of the fact that I'll most likely not swap any characters from Defiant to Union or the reverse I'd still like to thank the devs for doing this.
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MAN! I am TOTALLY happy about this. I was JUST this past Saturday saying that I'd love a group discount for server transfers. Ya see, back in the day, before extra character slots, in order to have room, I made all my villains on Protector and all my heroes on Pinnacle. I have been wanting to make a mass move for some time now. I dont have room to move them all., because I have 44 characters across my Pinnacle and Protector account. But dang, now its free.
Sure, I have to buy slots so I have room to move them TO, but thats great for COH, because I'm spending maybe 40 bucks for 10 new slots, whereas I wouldnt have spent any before. And now, I can move 10 characters for 40 bucks (cost of buying 10 slots) instead of 140 bucks (cost of 10 slots and 10 transfers).
Thanks Devs, and TPTB! Good times!
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Geez, it's FREE, guys! If you don't want it or can't get any use out of it, then don't use it and you're no worse off than you were yesterday!
Unless of course your friends use the transfer to go to another server
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I might transfer one or two defiant characters over to union but thats it
Merry xmas and thanks devs
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