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Steam News31 July 20178y ago

Accounts and the TSW Legacy Transfer System

The TSW Legacy Transfer system is available to those of you with an existing account in The Secret World.

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changedUnlock all the weapon pages
changedPlease note that only TSW accounts with a retail key in good standing (i.e., not expired trial/beta account, not suspended) registered on or before June 22nd are eligible for the transfer. THIS SERVICE ENDS SEPTEMBER 4th
addedACCESSING YOUR ACCOUNTTo be eligible for the TSW Legacy Transfer, you must have had an valid TSW account in good standing in the past. New Secret World Legends accounts are NOT able to be linked to TSW accounts retro-actively.
changedTSW LEGACY TRANSFER SYSTEMFor a limited time (until September 04, 2017), you can initiate a ONE-TIME copy of most of your current TSW vanity items and any membership over to your Secret World Legends account. Activating this also unlocks all of your weapon pages in Secret World Legends! Once you log into your Secret World Legends account page, click the TSW Legacy Transfer button to begin the process. That’s it!
changedCLOTHING TRANSFERSAlmost every single article of clothing available in the dressing room of any character on your TSW account gets copied to your Secret World Legends account. The only clothing items that won’t copy over are Faction uniforms earned through Faction Ranks. Those can be re-earned through gameplay. Additionally, the “Memory” outfits that represent the CG Characters (Rose, Alex, etc.) do not copy and will not be obtainable in Secret World Legends. All clothing that copies over is available in the dressing room of every character on your Secret World Legends account. There are some important things to keep in mind:
changedCLOTHING TRANSFERSClothing items must be in a Dressing Room or physically equipped by a character in order to be copied. Unopened Clothing in your Inventory, unopened Item Store Claims, or unopened Delivered Items are not copied.

Secret World Legends changes

changedUnlock all the weapon pages
changedPlease note that only TSW accounts with a retail key in good standing (i.e., not expired trial/beta account, not suspended) registered on or before June 22nd are eligible for the transfer. THIS SERVICE ENDS SEPTEMBER 4th
addedTo be eligible for the TSW Legacy Transfer, you must have had an valid TSW account in good standing in the past. New Secret World Legends accounts are NOT able to be linked to TSW accounts retro-actively.
changedFor a limited time (until September 04, 2017), you can initiate a ONE-TIME copy of most of your current TSW vanity items and any membership over to your Secret World Legends account. Activating this also unlocks all of your weapon pages in Secret World Legends! Once you log into your Secret World Legends account page, click the TSW Legacy Transfer button to begin the process. That’s it!
changedAlmost every single article of clothing available in the dressing room of any character on your TSW account gets copied to your Secret World Legends account. The only clothing items that won’t copy over are Faction uniforms earned through Faction Ranks. Those can be re-earned through gameplay. Additionally, the “Memory” outfits that represent the CG Characters (Rose, Alex, etc.) do not copy and will not be obtainable in Secret World Legends. All clothing that copies over is available in the dressing room of every character on your Secret World Legends account. There are some important things to keep in mind:

The TSW Legacy Transfer system is available to those of you with an existing account in The Secret World. It allows you to:

  • Copy any remaining TSW Membership time into active Patron status time

  • Unlock all the weapon pages

  • Copy over Clothing & Vanity items!

Please note that only TSW accounts with a retail key in good standing (i.e., not expired trial/beta account, not suspended) registered on or before June 22nd are eligible for the transfer. THIS SERVICE ENDS SEPTEMBER 4th

ACCESSING YOUR ACCOUNT

Your current TSW account has already been linked to Secret World Legends. In order to login into Secret World Legends for the first time, simply use your TSW game login details and you’re all set! If you played TSW on Steam, then you should be able to play by starting the game through the Steam application. That's it! Please note:

  • To be eligible for the TSW Legacy Transfer, you must have had an valid TSW account in good standing in the past. New Secret World Legends accounts are NOT able to be linked to TSW accounts retro-actively.

  • If you have forgotten your TSW account details, you can recover them directly from The Secret World account page: register.thesecretworld.com

TSW LEGACY TRANSFER SYSTEM

For a limited time (until September 04, 2017), you can initiate a ONE-TIME copy of most of your current TSW vanity items and any membership over to your Secret World Legends account. Activating this also unlocks all of your weapon pages in Secret World Legends! Once you log into your Secret World Legends account page, click the TSW Legacy Transfer button to begin the process. That’s it!

You get to choose exactly when your items and membership gets copied, but again, this is only available until some time in August (exact date TBD).

CLOTHING TRANSFERS

Almost every single article of clothing available in the dressing room of any character on your TSW account gets copied to your Secret World Legends account. The only clothing items that won’t copy over are Faction uniforms earned through Faction Ranks. Those can be re-earned through gameplay. Additionally, the “Memory” outfits that represent the CG Characters (Rose, Alex, etc.) do not copy and will not be obtainable in Secret World Legends. All clothing that copies over is available in the dressing room of every character on your Secret World Legends account. There are some important things to keep in mind:

  • Clothing items must be in a Dressing Room or physically equipped by a character in order to be copied. Unopened Clothing in your Inventory, unopened Item Store Claims, or unopened Delivered Items are not copied.

  • Clothing items are separate for female and male character models! To ensure that all clothing items can copy over from TSW, we recommend having at least one character of each gender model, with all potential items unlocked and collected in your Dressing Room.

    • This means that clothing items for male character models should be in the Dressing Room or equipped by a male character models. Clothing items for female character models should be in the Dressing Room or equipped by a female character model.

    • Example: If you have only one female character on your TSW account, but own a clothing set with both male and female costume parts, only the female model outfit will be transferred to Secret World Legends. If you want the male counterpart, make sure to claim this outfit on a

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Steam News / 31 July 2017

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