rtlfc
PLEASE DO SOMETHING!
Our shard is dying, and EA can kiss my cute lil bum if they think I'm paying for transfers to the handful of servers with more than a dozen people on every night and lose my houses to boot. 6 charas x 2 accounts x $30 = $360 plus whatever it would cost me to buy comparable houses on the new shard, are you kidding me?
Every older game goes through this phase when server consolidation is necessary. EQ, SWG, AC, DAoC, Shadowbane, even WOW has done server merges and free character transfers in order to better manage the populations. EA, you're being both cheap AND lazy.
At the very least - and in the interests of everyone getting to keep his houses - stick up inter-server-moongates to allow us to move between all the shards, similar to the way GW works, or the way CoH/CoV is going to be. This is a no-brainer.