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Everyone at BioWare is committed to ensuring that each and every one of our customers has the best possible experience while playing Star Wars™: The Old Republic™.
On Tuesday, June 12th, 2012 we are introducing the initial phase of our Character Transfer Service to allow our players on lower-population servers to transfer one or more of their characters to servers with a more active population. We are introducing this service because we want all of our players to have access to Heroic Missions, Flashpoints, Operations and Warzones, and to find it easier to group with other players to do so.
To this, Bioware, I call BU77$H!T
If you did care about your customers, you would listen to our repeated, repeated, repeated requests to allow us off of this DEAD server. I've posted many times and submitted many tickets with customer service. If you did care about us and our "best possible experience while while playing Star Wars: The Old Republic" you would allow us to transfer. Please take this serious...as your response will determine if I continue to pay you, or not.