Because it’s Friday and I can’t be arsed to write that Mastery guide or that long story I promised myself to finish by the end of this month, here are some quotes from Nic at GOA as a follow-up to my last post. UpToWar is a wonderful DevTracker.

Please note that although you will need to complete almost every single task to max out your influence to get access to the new classes a week early, you do not need to complete them all.

You can miss a single one and still gain full influence by completing the rest.

Now I am well aware that this doesn’t solve the problem many people reported of not being able to join the Reikland Scenario on their servers. We will continue to look into the reasons for this and hopefully a swift introduction of the character transfer service will make it easier to join the scenario soon.

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Rolling a character on a well populated server is of course a solution, as Sunpots pointed out in the last post. But I really don’t want to sit on my ass with an alt on another server when I could be playing my Warrior Priest, that’s not why I play (and pay) the game. I also don’t want to go through all this trouble just to figure out that I can’t reach the Elite reward, since I’m sure there will be some day when I just don’t have time to complete the task, on top of the two already missed.

So no, no more “Heavy Metal” event for me. Instead I will try to level up my main and prepare for the character transfer. That should have been ready the middle of this week by the way.

By now it is obvious that we have missed our “middle of the week” deadline for offering you the Free Character transfers. We have run into some issues with characters using special characters in their names and our development team is working hard to solve this issue by tomorrow.

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The official (…) WAR-Europe site say this about character transfer:

We have been testing the character transfer system for the past few weeks and this is now almost complete. There remain a few issues which we are working with Mythic to resolve and we expect that we will be able to launch the service early next week.

We appreciate that many of you are waiting eagerly for this system and that you may be disappointed by this delay, we are sorry for this however it is important to ensure that the system is fully tested and that any problems that may affect your character or guild are properly resolved.

Now taking bets on how badly our guild transfer will screw up.

I must say that I’m a bit confused about all the transfers. I can understand that they want to shove people off low population servers and onto medium so that people can actually experience all the content that Mythic has done. But why not just merge the servers instead of offering transfers? The people left on the low population server are not likely to be happy when they realize it’s even emptier. If I heard about the transfers too late I would have the options of rerolling and quitting, and I’m sure quite many would pick the second considering their experience on a low-low server.

And just to calm us, Nic post a nice list of other stuff that they have yet to do but promised a long time ago.

Test server. We fully intent to open one up. We have the hardware reserved for it and as soon as some of our priority issues are dealt with we will open a PTS. We realize how important this matter is to our community and you are completely right in saying that the feedback on the game will be welcomed by both GOA and Mythic to keep improving the game.

Character Transfer. This has been a top priority for us. It is important to consolidate the populations on our servers so you guys can fully enjoy the game. We have released the list of destination servers last week and are still aiming for the service to go live this week. By most definitions we missed our “middle of the week” window due to some unforeseen delays but we are working really hard on getting this live.

Our website. We are well aware of the public opinion on this and trust me, it has our attention.

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I don’t know about you, but I wouldn’t want his job.