What’s your basis for comparison? The prices they have for other game services? How does that help you in anyway?
Its just sour grapes and childish whining.
Well, let’s see, the BC Boost is $39.99. The Boost is to boost a “new” character. The Character Copy is $35 to “unlock” characters we ALREADY put work into? And, is a $5 difference compared to the Boost. How about making it $30? Gives a $10 distinction between the Boost and Copy, and Blizz will still make money from it.
The Forums are always like that. Doesn’t take away from the points. I can have bad B.O. Doesn’t mean I’m not presenting facts, here.
I dont know how else to put it. Blizzard doesnt owe anyone anything. You either accept their terms or you dont.
Hear me out on this one and please do tell me why I’m wrong, I’m not trying to troll anyone here, just looking for discussion. Please note, I do think 35$ per char is a little too much, but in some regards it is just matching the boosting price, let me elaborate:
Considering these games become 2 separate games when BC releases, the clone process is essentially boosting you a character. Blizzard could have just said, you choose if you go classic or if you go BC. No questions you get to choose, the other character ceases to exist and your character is now BC or your character stays classic and you must level a BC character from scratch.
So, in choosing to clone your character you basically do get a boost, but a superpowered boost where your character has all the gold, professions, loot that your current character does. Again, they did not need to offer a clone option, and if they didn’t and just told you to choose, there’d probably be some level of complaining, but nowhere near to the level I’ve seen this paid option get.
I guess what I’m getting at is that the massive complaints I’m seeing towards this “feature” are kind of like wanting your cake and eating it too. To me, there are loads of reasons to complain about the decisions Blizzard has made towards BC release, but complaints like these seem a little out of touch. If we saw the same animosity towards the price of a boost, I’d get the complaint, but we don’t. The boost price seems to be fine for everyone, but that is basically what you are getting with a clone but with extra benefits…
Again, please let me know why my opinion on this is not a valid one, just trying to see what people think. I probably wouldn’t pay for multiple toons to be cloned, but I have to be honest I think you’re in the minority group wanting to clone EIGHT characters.
I get that, doesn’t mean that the price is still overpriced. But, if you just want to plug your ears and just chant “What Blizz Says Goes”, then I guess no discussion is to be had here. Good day.
If you read my comment above, I think that if you apply this logic - you should be saying the cost for a clone should be more than a boost. It’s a superpowered boost. There didn’t need to be a clone option, they could have just made you choose which version you are continuing to play.
Edit: Just to comment on this: “The Character Copy is $35 to “unlock” characters we ALREADY put work into?”
The choice to use characters you put work into is free. You just don’t get to play both.
See, this is where I disagree and created an entire thread about it, too:
This is very true, and I’m happy we still have an option to Copy but not for its asking price. I don’t understand why I’m being scuffed at for asking for a $30 price, meanwhile MOST (and I will say that word because it’s true) of the complainers against the copy are asking for $10 or even $5, and even I disagree with that.
Here we go. I just don’t understand what’s so different about the “free” “boosted” (as you call it) character and just asking for that to be applied in the same fashion? Like, I planned to play both and am not boosting anything. For it’s NOT a “new” character.
Same. It’s why I torture, myself by reading these Forums. Occasionally, I’ll find some sensible ones out there.
I guess at some point I just have come to terms with Blizzard also being a business. I do think 35$ per character is too much, as many classic players have more than 1 character they’d like to continue playing. But aside from monthly fees (which for many has paid for their retail sub & their classic sub), there have been no charges thus far (unless you paid to transfer servers, which is a choice), even though they have put the work of creating, releasing, and maintaining classic & tbc.
I think it should be a 1 time fee of whatever a game would cost these days (maybe 65$) to get all your characters over. I think the people I have a problem with are the people who are saying the option should just be plain free.
And, I don’t disagree with that. As I’ve said multiple times, throughout these Forums, I had a sinking feeling Blizz would charge for our characters, and I mentioned that, before BC was announced. Low and behold, that sinking feeling was correct.
So, Blizz, let’s make a deal. $30 instead of $35 and/or a Bundle Deal. Either works for me.
Needs to cost more then $35 imo. wanna keep your BS stuff, pay $1k to keep it.
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I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s also to prevent abuse.
Load up a toon with gold, clone it, move gold to another toon, delete cloned toon, rinse and repeat.
No ones going to try that silliness if it costs 35 bucks a pop.
Before Classic TBC was announced. Some friends of mine and I were spitballing what we thought Blizzard would do and I said this at the time:
“I mean, obviously this game (Classic) costs them SOMETHING to run and it’s not entirely fueled by subscriptions and/OR retail. So when TBC comes out, So if you ask me, bringing your toon over to TBC should cost you something, a very nominal something, but it SHOULD cost something” and after that, we spitballed what we thought it would cost. I was the lowest price - I said “I’d be willing to pay a one time fee of $10 or $12 to bring my toon from Classic to TBC and not be able to go backwards. I’d even maybe be able to be talked into letting people skip Classic 1-58 assuming they ALREADY have a level 60 character and have completed at least Molten Core for another nominal fee of maybe $15”.
I don’t know whether people here agree with me or not, but like I said, the games not free obviously and maintaining it costs money. Supporting it costs money. Bug fixing costs money. So I’m with them on the “you gotta pay something to play this” notion. However, the idea that something should come from these particular sources and. at such insane prices …you lose me. You MIGHT be able to talk me into $20 for a clone to go Classic->TBC and leave a copy at Classic in case you wanna pick that up.
Like I said, IDK how y’all feel, but I’m OK with paying something. I just think they monetized the wrong stuff and for the wrong prices. Or maybe I’m just out of touch/stupid.
It’s literally free to go to TBC, and it’s free to stay in Classic. If you decide to do BOTH, that’s when you pay the fee.
They gave classic for free from the get go, just pay for the Sub. Now they are essentially opening a THIRD version of the game that will be playable with just a Sub, and this fee will likely cover the costs of running said THIRD version.
Like I get it, paying $15 to play a game seems like a lot as is, but you get a ton of available content for that Sub and they are maintaining THREE different sets of games/servers, they have to make it profitable somehow otherwise you don’t get classic or TBC, ya know?
Just a reminder that $35 isn’t really the price if you intend to keep playing.
According to their wording, every current realm will have a ‘classic forever’ version that your clone will be on. Meaning, if only 10% of the players on your server clone, you’ll likely be on a dead server, as will people on almost every classic forever server.
So you’ll have to xfer to one of the few that everyone congregates on.
Xfers are $25- so unless you happen to be lucky enough to be on one of the servers that retains a big classic playerbase, the price of an xfer for most players intending to keep playing is $60.
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Yeah… nope. 35 dollars really seems bizarrely and prohibitively expensive for a character copy on both old fashioned versions of a game I already owned and played years ago. When Wrath Classic comes out, do I pay another 35 to keep my BC char and move on to Wrath, too?
Well, nope, I won’t. Too bad, I did want to have versions of my one character in both games and use a copy service. But not that much.
I have blizzard funny money to pay for it from farming gold in retail, but I’d rather just save my bliz money to buy the latest new expansion that comes out after Shadowlands when it does. Or the newest Diablo. You know, pay money for new things. Well, pay other people’s money for new things.
Yeah, I just said that 35 dollars is such a silly price for a character copy that I won’t even pay for it with someone else’s money.
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$35 for a character copy is ridiculous, especially considering that a copy for beta takes 10 seconds and no effort on Blizzard’s part.
It’s just a money sink at a time when many people are struggling to get by, thanks to closures and lockdowns.
$35 for this “service” is an outrage.
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Services for character copies and moves are overpriced and always have been. Copy one of your toons for beta and see how much effort it takes.
What a ripoff. You’re better off rerolling unless you have money to throw around.
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If you delete a cloned toon, it remains deleted. You cannot reclone the toon again.
would love to see Blizzard justify character copies being only FIVE DOLLARS less than Shadowlands
I don’t think that’s how it works. On pre-patch day, they will snapshot and create inactive clones of all your toons on both classic and tbcc servers. You choose which of them you wish to activate on each server. You can delete the others and likely will since the inactive clones still count towards the 10 max toons per server. If you change your mind later you can undelete them just like regular toons. If you activate a clone on one server then try to activate its counterpart on the other server, you will be sent to the service fee web page to get it done.