Paid Character Transfer Details & FAQ

[Rushster]

Here's something to sink your teeth into. Details on how much and how paid character transfers will work. This document came our way this morning and it's a complete FAQ as to the process of paying to have your character transferred across realms. Personally I think the price stated is a little steep. <a href="http://www.worldofwar.net/pressdesk/220606.php">Read the FAQ</a>. Thanks Swift.</p><blockquote dir="ltr" style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"><p>The WoW community has been begging for this feature since the game?s release, and now they?re going to get it ? Character Realm Transfers! To begin with this paid service still won?t cover every server, but opens up a lot more options than the simple load balancing transfers of the past.</p></blockquote>

[rgirty]

Realm to Realm transfers can be questionable IMO as a player could develop a bad rep or ninja a lot of items then simply move on, but people have been clamoring for and should have been able to transfer char's between accounts since the beginning.

Can I transfer characters from one account to another?

Yes, you can transfer characters not just between realms but also between accounts where you are the subscriber.

[jibbrish]

The australian site that posted this has been asked to remove it apparently... just an FYI:
http://www.atomicmpc.com.au/article.asp?CIID=39226

[LePrince]

This is crazy. 25$ per character ? I got like 5-6 alts I would like to transfer, that's 150$.

No friggin' way. :-(

Oh well. Anyway I don't have a need to move anymore, I found myself a good guild recently, but heck. Price IS quite steep. I would've expected something around 5$ per char; hey, moving a character involves running a SQL script that moves you from one table to another...

[Giolon]

Price is steep? This is a bargain. On SWG, Sony charged $50 for a server to server transfer, and $50 for an account to account transfer, so if you want to move a char from one server to another AND to a different account it's $100. Not to mention that you couldn't take any money or items with you.

There has to be some price in place as a disincentivize to stop people from ninja looting to their hearts content on one server, then just hopping a transfer to a new server with a new name.

[Naedea]

They don't really *want* to perform all these moves.
They're doing it because it's been asked for, and people are willing to pay for it.
The price is one way to make money *AND* keep the number of requests at a manageable level. I imagine once the people who are willing to pay the "high" price of transfering now have transfered, they will lower the price to make it more available to others, and maintain that income and manageable transfer load. That's what I would do.
Be glad they're going to offer it at all.

[Phelix]

Haha, do it cost $25 per character?? Blizzard are so greedy!

[rgirty]

SoE charged $50 to move your EQ char, and you lost all your cash and items.

$25? very reasonable. My issue was the 10 days before you could play that char again. I think they should give you some discount for those days.. say

$15 monthly fee for 30 days, /10 so maybe $5 off your bill or something. Not much money but would make it more fair...not that blizz is fair.

[RabidWookie]

They are giving you $5 off. They really wanted to charge $30. That's the Blizz way. :cool:

[Grendo]

$25 is a bargain compared to other MMOs. Think of it as an investment in having fun again ;)

[thejoester]

OK, why do people complain so much about Blizz charging $25?

Point one... Yes, Blizzard is out to make money. So what. Thats what businesses do. This is how the world works. Get used to it.

Point two... To process the realm transfers they will have to take a team of people (I would imagine it would be more that one person anyway). Either take them away from thier job of fixing bugs, or whatever they do, and have them work in realm transfers. Or they have to hire new people. Either way it will cost them money to do.

Point three... Can you imagine how many character transfer requests they would get if they were free or cheap? hundreds of thousands would be my guess. It would then take months to get your request done. By charging an amount that is high enough to keep enough people from transfering all 10 characters from one realm to another, they keep it manageable.

As pointed out... other MMO's before have charged much more. You don't have to transfer a character if you don't want to. Why is it so many act personally insulted at this move?

I for one am HAPPY. I spent hours upon hours with my main, she has close to 100g, but now a bunch of my RL friends all start up accounts on another realm, so to me its worth it. To some it isn't.

[Bryant]

They are giving you $5 off. They really wanted to charge $30. That's the Blizz way. :cool:

Actually, he ment $15 (montly fee) + $25 (to move the char) = $40 total.

What he mwnt was that it should be:

$5 (montly fee. $10 off because you can't play for 10 days) + $25 (to move the char) = $30 instead of $40.

[Rushster]

The press info was apparently embargoed until 8AM this morning.

[Linch]

I think this is excellent.
In my case I have a 60 toon on a server mostly populated by americans ( im aussie)
This means I cant make raid times and theres not a strong enough force horde side to create a guild that can do it in my timezone.

It was a bad server choice on my part but I at least have another option now other than starting again on another server.

Now what my question is how do you get info on servers?
My main question is how many servers havea decent amount of people that run in my timezone?

[zkajan]

I think this is excellent.
In my case I have a 60 toon on a server mostly populated by americans ( im aussie)
This means I cant make raid times and theres not a strong enough force horde side to create a guild that can do it in my timezone.

It was a bad server choice on my part but I at least have another option now other than starting again on another server.

Now what my question is how do you get info on servers?
My main question is how many servers havea decent amount of people that run in my timezone?
if you click the oceanic tab there is specificaly aussie servers

[Robba]

So can u transfer from normal to pvp or other way arround?

[Zuggy]

Is $25 ridiculous? yes
Are people gonna pay? yes

The second question kinda makes the first irrelevant. I know I'll pay to move my warlock off destromath. That realm lags worst then, well nevermind, I could only think of metaphors that would get me banned from the forums.

[Naolin]

hmm I don't find it that much, 25$ seems a lot but na. It keeps people moving to server where the "movie heroes" are :p

[Seeo]

I'd be willing to pay 50$ to move my Char to a new PVE => PVP realm.

Heck I'd be willing to pay 75$ just for that chance... my buddies are wusses and wanted a PVE server, and since they all started 2-4 months before me, they got to choose the server... Now they all want PVP and I'm all up for it!

I can't wait to see that $50USD I got in my paypal go to Blizzard Character Transfer :) ($50USD For me and my G-F, 2 accounts)

[Deadzmcgee]

hmm I don't find it that much, 25$ seems a lot but na. It keeps people moving to server where the "movie heroes" are :p

QFT. Leeroy about killed my precious medium pop server. We got all the trash from other realms rolling alts on our server. Did a real number on the A:H pop for a bit too (TONS of alliance lowbies). Luckily they all were rerolling from scratch so most got bored and moved on and our server is still terribly laggy and highpop, but at least we don't have ques. I would HATE to see what it would have been like if people could just toss their 60s over for $2 or something...

[kcma]

$25 for transfering char? that's funny what's next? $25 for 1k gold sponsored by Bliz? is Elly going to ban http://worldofwarcraft.com then? =D

[LordXeper]

I find 25$ a very reasonable price and as soon as I can transfer I will. My current server sucks balls.

[Naedea]

$25 for transfering char? that's funny what's next? $25 for 1k gold sponsored by Bliz? is Elly going to ban http://worldofwarcraft.com then? =D

You're smarter than this.

[rgirty]

I find 25$ a very reasonable price and as soon as I can transfer I will. My current server sucks balls.

Exactly how the service should work. You pay the monthly fee, why be forced to keep your char on a server you don't like?

[tagkc]

I can't wait to see that $50USD I got in my paypal go to Blizzard Character Transfer :) ($50USD For me and my G-F, 2 accounts)

I'm sorry Seeo, but I'm not sure you catch the issue. It's $25 per CHARACTER, not for the account.

[BlackLeaf]

So can u transfer from normal to pvp or other way arround?

You can transfer FROM PvP to PvE, but not the other way around. I agree with Blizz on this move, as it wouldn't be fair to PvP players that had to endure leveling up on such a server.

[rgirty]

endure leveling up on such a server

Which really means being endlessly ganked in duskwood by char's 30 levels higher than you. Entrances to low level instances being camped by bored lvl 60 char's... pve leveling would be a lot easier.

[JFoobar]

Seems like an easy way to get some money to a lowbie alt I have on a new server. I only have it so as to have somplace to play if my main server suffers some downtime. Level a 10, drop 100g on it, move it over. I'm not much of a twinker but it is nice to have 10g seed money on new toons just so you don't have to grind for bag money, etc.

The way I look at it, WoW is an incredibly cheap hobby. An extra $25 for some convenience is no big deal at all. Now if I were a 14 year-old working a paper route just for enough cashola to buy WoW access cards at Best Buy, I'd probably feel differently.

[BlackLeaf]

Which really means being endlessly ganked in duskwood by char's 30 levels higher than you. Entrances to low level instances being camped by bored lvl 60 char's... pve leveling would be a lot easier.

Yep, but that's what a PvP server is all about. I originally started on a PvP server when I got the game, and it took 33 levels of getting ganked before I realized I didn't want to have to put up with that anymore, and switched to a PvE server with a clean slate. It's a rite of passage so to speak, and allowing folks who leveled up on PvE to transfer to PvP servers after they reached 60 would defeat that purpose. Like it or not, that's the way the PvP server enviornment works.

[Maxie Man]

"You may transfer characters from PvP to PvE realms, but transfers from PvE to PvP realms are not allowed"

That's what I dislike. After a long time on PvE, I would like to try PvP with one of my high level toons (not necessarily a lvl 60). I would pay to transfer, but I won't create a new character and level up all over again. Waaay too much work.

[Naedea]

"You may transfer characters from PvP to PvE realms, but transfers from PvE to PvP realms are not allowed"

That's what I dislike. After a long time on PvE, I would like to try PvP with one of my high level toons (not necessarily a lvl 60). I would pay to transfer, but I won't create a new character and level up all over again. Waaay too much work.

It has been suggested that they create a server specifically for PVE-to-PVP transfers, but there is no evidence that the suggestion is being considered or planned.

[rgirty]

Like it or not, that's the way the PvP server enviornment works.

It is bullying. I'm not whining about world pvp all is fair on my rp-pvp server. However when i see your tauren level 60 hunter camping the ulda entrance cheapshotting people, or the 60 undead rogue in raven hill cemetary one hitting lowbies I immediately think this person is plain and simply a loser. If they had any guts at all they would go to a bg or go attack someone within 10 levels of themselves. I guess they want to feel all powerful by attacking char's 30 levels lower than them. Then after they one shot you, the traditional /spit comes along.

[Grendo]

It is bullying. I'm not whining about world pvp all is fair on my rp-pvp server. However when i see your tauren level 60 hunter camping the ulda entrance cheapshotting people, or the 60 undead rogue in raven hill cemetary one hitting lowbies I immediately think this person is plain and simply a loser. If they had any guts at all they would go to a bg or go attack someone within 10 levels of themselves. I guess they want to feel all powerful by attacking char's 30 levels lower than them. Then after they one shot you, the traditional /spit comes along.
Whatever your feelings are on would-be gankers, to try and create a vision of what you assume they are in real life because of how they play the game is incredibly short-sighted and childish. If it makes you feel better about your 90second delay he caused you getting into your bg, then good for you.

That said, I also think the PVP->PVE but restricting PVE->PVP is a wonderful choice by Blizzard to not alienate their Pvp player base. As a player with a 60 on each realm type, I would hate to see them allow my PVE toon to jump to the end-game of pvp just because I had cash to spare.

[rgirty]

Whatever your feelings are on would-be gankers, to try and create a vision of what you assume they are in real life because of how they play the game is incredibly short-sighted and childish. If it makes you feel better about your 90second delay he caused you getting into your bg, then good for you.

Point taken, short-sighted and childish both on my behalf. I shouldn't equate how someone plays the game to real life in any context.