The patch is complete and servers are once again live. Character transfers have also gone live. The FAQ can be found here, the list of servers can be found here, and there is the usually amount of forum outrage present as well. The initial round of servers available for transfer are 4 in North America and 6 in Europe. Bioware has been explicitly clear that the process would begin small and the number of servers would open up as time passed:
Current Transfer Servers | 06.12.2012, 01:23 PM
I also wanted to point out that this process was outlined in our community blog last week and in our main transfer thread here. Specifically:
This process will be gradual and staged over time. Despite huge improvements being made to the Character Transfer Service by our server team, there are millions of characters to be moved and there is a limit to how many can be moved daily. We want your character to be transferred as quickly as possible, but we will need you to be patient as the process completes. (Source)
Forum outrage is being tempered well by community members themselves. Bioware has been clear from the outset that this would be a staggered process but somehow players assumed that the staggering would be affect their servers or characters.
Bioware is in a no—win situation, truth be told. They either start the process slowly and ensure it works smoothly and anger/frustrate some members of the community or they start off running at full speed and the process potentially fails and characters are lost, or all the servers come down while rollbacks occur, potentially upsetting players completely unaffected by character transfers. What would you do in their shoes? Honestly, I would take the slow and steady route, better to start slow than have a potential public relations and stock holder disaster to deal with and resolve.
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