After 15 ish years of paying for 2 accounts without stopping my sub… you finally bring classic back… for the past year you have not been able to benefit from it till now with in game purchases … You decided to try and get is all back at once?
35 buck per toon to clone… What a joke. anyone that plays your game and keeps playing has multiple accounts and toons. So your going to extort your constant paying base to keep playing there toons on a account. If I cloned my top eights toons that 280 bucks today to keep playing both places… that’s without banks, and all the other support toons needed for classic . What a racket
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Won’t be cloning at $35. Not worth it.
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Could be an automated free service. 35$ is ridiculous for something that’s almost certainly automated.
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Imagine shilling and defending the 35 dollar price point for this service.
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I was pretty sure it would be $60 and I probably would have paid the 60. Charging a price they think will sell the most for an optional service in a game is not extortion in any sense of the word. Quit whining
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I am neither shilling nor defending. I am saying his “I HAVE BEEN AROUND FOREVER” equates to being special is wrong.
And I stand by my point that you can pay it or not. You have the control.
Now, imagine not understanding that?
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THey want to deter people from cloning so only the most dedicated will, otherwise everyone will clone and the servers will be overwhelmed probably.
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Yep, I am one of them.
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That just makes it worse then lol
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Are the servers overwhelmed now with everyone playing on them?
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are they cloning everyone from all the servers to one or two megaservers or something? I don’t see how there will be enough people doing it to support copies of all the servers we have now at that price point.
They need it to keep the servers live. 
I think the high price is to discourage people from using it. They would rather you level new characters
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I doubt it’s less to do with selling it at the highest they think they can get away with it and more about trading quantity for quality. If they make it $5 bucks bulk of the playerbase will clone a toon if not most or all. If they make it $35 some won’t clone a single toon and everyone else will clone far fewer.
So they may simply be trying to control the amount of people that clone, but at the end of the day this service, right or wrong, generally seems to be viewed as a $10-$15 service by most people I see talk about it because of it’s not a new service they’re developing, just one they’re using for Classic. The data the character costs them to keep is not $35 worth and the setup for this should be relatively minimal so people see this service setup as a form of printing money for Blizzard and $35 seems outrageous.
I hope it backfires on them.
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I’m not terribly bothered by the service one way or the other (no intention of using it) but I really doubt Blizz cares if you level the old-fashioned way or not. They knew they could charge for this service, they knew people would be willing to pay for it, and they seem confident that this is the price that will maximize profit.
If you do not like it, your best course of action is to make certain you do not use it.
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You can progress to TBC for nothing. Stop whining.
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This. If it was only $5 I probably would clone three characters. At 35, nah - not a single one. I can afford it, but I don’t see that much value in it. Interesting that cloning is actually cheaper than boosting, though.
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$35 is Blizzard shamelessly milking the playerbase.
The people defending this or mocking those who are against it with suggestions of entitlement, or whatever nonsense, are fools.
Everyone with an ounce of common sense should be against this and voice their dissent. Acceptance of this means we’ll see more of it, guaranteed.
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I mean the way to do that is actually limit the amount of cloning operations you can perform per account in x months of time and/or put people in queues for it that last weeks of waiting or more. This like how some small towns use speeding tickets is a way to generate profit off something ostensibly discouraged.
Cloning is not an intensive process that can burden the servers. It like other character services are done via a queue system on the back-end, people click buy, it schedules them, if not a lot of people have done so recently it can be processed within minutes to hours, if tons have then things like transfers can take up to a day at times (rare). So that’s not it.
Money in these amounts is a poor way to discourage such behavior. It just enables those with decent incomes and the willingness to spend on thing like this the ability to do so while only discouraging those either on limited incomes (not uncommon for many who work retail in light of all the covid trouble) and/or those who refuse to pay such amounts for a virtual service in a game. If I’m a professional and make say $60 or more per hour and I know it takes me more than 8 hours to level a character, the cost analysis breaks down in favor of paying and working a few more hours at my job instead of a lot more hours leveling. And they know this and take advantage of it for profit.
Let’s not be ashamed to say it, it’s a clear fact. Blizzard is a for-profit company with investors and a need for healthy quarterly earnings. If this was some weird developer collective non-profit run by monks they certainly wouldn’t use a $35 price point to discourage this behavior as there are far more effective tools and systems. They also wouldn’t have sent out surveys asking what prices points people are willing to pay either.
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I’m confused. Is this $35 a fee if you want to copy your toon and play it on both Classic and BC? Or is it for everyone regardless?