Date: Jul 16, 2012  |  Written by Laura Hardgrave  |  Posted Under: Buzz  |  DISQUS With Us: 2 comments

Thanks to the somewhat-confusing manner that SWTOR server transfers were handled, some players are left in an odd predicament. These players have characters on both their designated origin server and designated destination server, and not enough new character slots to accommodate their characters. Without the ability to transfer characters elsewhere and a limited number of character slots available, what exactly happens in this situation?

It seems unfair to expect these players to delete the higher-level characters, especially since SWTOR is currently one of the most alt-friendly MMOs on the market and actually rewards players with alts. BioWare hasn’t said much on this matter, until last Friday:

Originally posted by JovethGonzalez (Source)


Hi folks,

Just wanted to hop on here to let you all know that at no point will we be deleting your characters later this summer when we automatically move any remaining characters from origin servers onto designated destination servers. More details about how this will work out will be forthcoming, but I can assure you that automatic character deletion is not going to happen for this upcoming move.

Thanks everyone!

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  • http://www.facebook.com/nsvolos Nick Svolos

    Seriously? You guys actually thought they’d be deleting people’s characters? Look, I don’t want to be dismissive, but come on, that’s just ridiculous. For all the problems the game has, something like this would be pretty suicidal, and easily avoided. What’s going to happen is that they will raise the 8-character limit and then move the other toons over. ‘Nuff said.

    The game’s gotta be doing pretty well if this is what people are choosing to worry about.

  • Kaylen

    I disagree, Nick. If that happened, I’d have 14 characters on one server and I don’t think Bioware is going to lift the limit THAT high. No, what I think they will do is offer a choice of destination servers or perhaps designate an alternate destination server for those with full character racks. I’ve already let them know that a choice like that would be fine with me. I do agree, however, that Bioware would NOT force-delete any characters, that would lose them customers very fast and no MMO is going to do something like that.