Bioware's Star Wars the Old Republic Allows Select Free Server Transfers

Written by: James Johnson (@WadeDMcGinnis) | June 12, 2012 4:00 pm

35 Comments

Looking to branch out of your Galaxy and see if the other star system is brighter?

Well Bioware has the answer. Today they announced select server transfers in Star Wars the Old Republic for any gamers looking to get out of those barren servers.

To qualify for these free transfers, a player must be moving from a select origin server, have an account in good standing, and not be a guild master — if you are a guild master you will have to demote yourself or disband as guild rankings/status do not transfer.

Here is a listing of all the servers able to transfer:

Keller’s Void to Jedi Covenant
Hedarr Soongh to The Fatman
Eye of Ashlanae to The Red Eclipse
The Shadow Runner to Tomb of Freedon Nadd
Rakata Mind Prison to The Bastion
Soresu to The Harbinger
Mecrosa Order to Darth Nihilus
Stereb Cities to The Jedi Tower
The Restoration Zone to Jar’Kai Sword
Phateem Halls of Knowledge to Mantle of the Force

If your server is not up there, not to worry as Bioware has stated they will continue to add more servers gradually til all servers have access.

Also remember you cannot login into the character your transferring and any other character on the origin server.

Let us know how smooth the transition was for you. Was it like trying to ride a Rancor without a saddle or effortlessly taking down a squad of troopers? Let us know in the comments below.

Bioware's Star Wars the Old Republic Allows Select Free Server Transfers

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http://www.facebook.com/chaz.rpg Chaz Davis

Good to see transfers have finally started, btw, inb4 the trolls!
- JJGlyph
  
  Troll here. Why you hatin’ on my kind.
  - Xample
    
    Aaaww don’t listen to Chaz, you are a good troll, here have a cookie……..psych, everyone knows trolls shouldn’t be fed! ┌∩┐(◣_◢)┌∩┐.
    
    I’m just kidding
http://twitter.com/dularr Dularr

Hi James Johnson.
- http://twitter.com/WadeDMcGinnis Wade D McGinnis
  
  Hey.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Liam-Walsh/100000735499497 Liam Walsh

great first post James Johnson
- http://twitter.com/WadeDMcGinnis Wade D McGinnis
  
  Thank you
http://www.facebook.com/omartellers Omar-Gabriel Tellers

Saying “Hi” to James Johnson in the comments.
- http://twitter.com/WadeDMcGinnis Wade D McGinnis
  
  Lol
http://www.facebook.com/people/Michael-Johnson/1353890372 Michael Johnson

“This is your captain speaking. We seem to be sinking, but the good news is that cabins toward the back of the ship are now available!”
Marc Desjardins

I like RIFT server transfer more. All MMO should do the same as Trion did for RIFT. You want to transfer, go ahead. It takes 2 sec to transfer. You can even transfer your entire guild in 2 sec. Just saying. But it’s going in the right direction.
- http://pulse.yahoo.com/_R35J5EUERGS3E6JRIQMBCDTRRY Nathan I
  
  that’s cause companies like Trion, Anet and a few others are heavy on technically competent people, they know how to do things like that the right way. According to some friends of mine who were contractors for Bioware, their salaried programmers were for the most part incompetent, with a few rare exceptions. I strongly suspect that for SWTOR server transfers are done manually by someone, that’s why it takes time. If the game was built with server transfers in mind it should not take more than a few minutes for the system to automatically transfer somebody’s character
- http://twitter.com/dularr Dularr
  
  I think Trion made it too easy to transfer servers. While I support server transfers, Rift had no incentive to stick around and make a go of a server. You could just jump from server to server, turning a shard into a ghost town overnight. I really think that was a contributing factor turning 800k Rift subs to 250k subs within a year. Made for a weak community susceptible to “the force.”
Camzillasmom

Hi James, well done!

Now to topic: Arrggghh these limited choices would reaaaally piss me off if I still played SWTOR and stuck on a dead server.
- http://twitter.com/WadeDMcGinnis Wade D McGinnis
  
  Thank you.
  
  To the news part, I have to agree. I was stuck on a dead server before I took time off from the game. Hoping distance makes the heart grow fonder lol
http://www.facebook.com/people/Kenny-Parsons-Collins/100001285750124 Kenny Parsons-Collins

great job on the show james!
- http://twitter.com/WadeDMcGinnis Wade D McGinnis
  
  Thanks!
Chris Ella

Good Job James! look forward to more breaks!
- http://twitter.com/WadeDMcGinnis Wade D McGinnis
  
  Thank you!
H S

They should have named this game “I am Legend”
mcsumo

Hi, James, welcome. Look forward to seeing your future work.

Regarding the news, I can’t help feeling it is all too late. I think maybe a couple of months ago we would have seen lots of comments here, saying more than just ‘Hi, James’ :p. But now it seems hardly anyone cares.
- http://twitter.com/dularr Dularr
  
  Agreed. At first I was going to post about the need to call customer service to move a guild bank to a new server or rant that my server is not included, but whats the point. I’m not going back to finish leveling a couple of level 30 characters to level 50.
  
  Hi James.
- http://twitter.com/WadeDMcGinnis Wade D McGinnis
  
  Lol true. Bioware waited too long and it shows.
Krzysztof Róg

“All servers” in Bioware’s language means “everybody except EU’s RPers”. So much for the equal treatment.
Key Foster

FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Randall Burt

Congrats and welcome James!
- http://twitter.com/WadeDMcGinnis Wade D McGinnis
  
  Thank you.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=862175353 Gavin Morgan

Welcome James, a very good start indeed. Hey will this feel like an mmo now then? it’s probably my biggest gripe that it feels so underpopulated even on the High servers and lets face it, that’s not many.
- http://twitter.com/WadeDMcGinnis Wade D McGinnis
  
  Thanks!
  
  I want to say yes but after a number of folks saying how bad the transfers were. I think we might see even more people leave SWTOR.
- http://twitter.com/WadeDMcGinnis Wade D McGinnis
  
  Thanks!
  
  I want to say yes but after a number of folks saying how bad the transfers were. I think we might see even more people leave SWTOR.
Shallyn

Nice article, James. I look forward to reading more of your work.
- http://twitter.com/WadeDMcGinnis Wade D McGinnis
  
  Thanks Shall lol
Ejecipo

Been doing alot of bareback rancor riding lately James?
- http://twitter.com/WadeDMcGinnis Wade D McGinnis
  
  While I can’t openly say as I am a gentlemen sir…I can say that rancors aren’t the best things to ride without a saddle lol
M Marte

this game is DEAD!

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