If you browse the Wildstar forum at the moment, the queues on some realms are longer than at the start of the summer sale by well-known clothing companies. However, just a few days after the head start – and right in time for the official release – Carbine and NCSOFT are now introducing free character transfers. Players on the following EU realms can use this service:
- Hazak to Contagion
- Hazak to Gaius
- Hazak to Deadstar
- Progenitur to Deadstar
- Treespeaker to Gaius
- Ascendancy to Archon
Most German players will likely consider the transfer from Progenitur to Deadstar. If you decide to say farewell to your home server, go to the character selection screen and initiate the transfer from there. This also means you will have to endure the queue again – but at least an end is in sight.
However, you should have collected the mail from your mailbox first, have no ongoing auctions, nor have open item or CREDD purchase orders. Additionally, you must leave all social circles you are in – such as circles, guilds, arena teams, or war parties.
There is no limit on the characters you want to transfer – so it’s best to take them all with you if you are sure you want to stay there. The only obligation is to endure for 22 hours before you can travel further.
How long the offer will last is still unclear, but the developers promise to notify 48 hours before the deadline – and we will, of course, do so too! 😉
Will you take advantage of this offer, or do you have no issues with queues? Or do you have to wait forever, but your server is not included in the action?
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Comment: Schuhmann on the reasons for the full servers
The SF-MMO WildStar relies on a traditional server model. Already in the head start, it revealed its weaknesses: Players clustered on certain servers, leading to long queues. It will now be possible to transfer for free from the fullest servers to certain others.
Carbine had anticipated the uneven distribution and warned: Guilds should not commit too early to the few servers whose names were already known at that point. But that seems to have happened. Long queues were the result. English-speaking realms were particularly affected, as Scandinavians, Spaniards, Italians, and Eastern Europeans also pushed onto these realms. After all, WildStar is only available in French, German, and English. And even German players are drawn to an English-speaking server, where some “personalities” like former WoW elite player Kungen share their successes in WildStar via Twitch.
Especially the fact that only an English-speaking PvP server was available at the beginning was bitterly criticized by players against Carbine. Hazak was threatening to burst at the seams. There were reports of queues lasting up to 4 or even 8 hours. Carbine quickly added more servers. Two PvP and two PvE realms have since launched. However, players had already leveled their character and were reluctant to start fresh on a new server. Others would have liked to start on an empty server but couldn’t because their guildmates were already further ahead on a server with a queue.
The free transfers were demanded by the players. WildStar has now responded faster than expected and met these demands. We will see whether the full queues can be resolved this way or if players deliberately want to stay on full servers and endure waiting due to fears of empty ghost realms as in World of Warcraft.
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