I leveled this mage alt on a different account mainly to serve as a portal taxi for the toons on my main account. I also wanted to earn a bit of gold for the toons on my main account by selling portals.
Both of my accounts were originally on the Mankrik pve cluster, but I transferred the toons on my main account to the Whitemane pvp cluster. I decided to wait until my next paycheck to transfer my mage, only to discover that Blizzard had in the meantime decided to get rid of paid character transfers on Era.
So now I have wasted time in leveling this mage, since itās stuck on a dead server where I donāt need it. Iām more than willing to pay Blizzard to transfer this toon to Whitemane, and to continue to pay a monthly subscription for this account. But since they removed transfers this toon is worthless to me, so I had no choice but to cancel it.
I have no idea why Blizzard decided both to rug-pull their customers and reduce their income with a single bad decision. I suspect that human laziness in one form or another is to blame- thereās likely a bug or something which arose with regard to transfers, and fixing it would have required someone to stop surfing the web and actually write some code. Just my theory, since no other explanation makes sense.
Anyway, so long mage- this account has a few more days left, and I guess Iāll see the toon again if Blizzard ever re-enables paid transfers on Era.
yup, era transfers of all kinds should be turned back on ridiculous that blizzard would remove a paid service that people were gladly handing money over for. they must have some kind of agenda with era that the transfers were messing with
Some initially hypothesized that the decision to remove transfers was a lazy way to stop name changes (as if that needed fixing).
However ultimately Blizz offered this response below where they claim the transfer service was discontinued because it was a āmoney trapā. Obviously services and features being a money trap has never stopped them before, so itās up to you to decide whether or not you actually believe their half-witted explanation:
That stated reason makes it sound like whoever made it was unaware that people could transfer from the Mankrik cluster to the Whitemane cluster. You could, and Era was stronger for it.
Even if someone wanted to pay 25 bucks to transfer within a cluster in order to force a name change (by creating a level 1 alt with that name on the destination server) then so what? A lot of people grow to hate the name they initially chose for their toon- thereās nothing wrong with letting them change it.
Another theory is that since they disabled transfer on the fresh anniversary servers, there was some spillover to the other vanilla Classic servers and it was just easier to disable them on all of them.
Hopefully Blizzard will not ignore Era completely and fix this. Stranding people on servers where they donāt want to be will make Era that much less active.
I find this explanation highly plausible, given their overall lazy implementation of having multiple āclassicā versions/seasons on the same client as Era.
ridiculous that blizzard would remove a paid service that people were gladly handing money over for. they must have some kind of agenda with era that the transfers were messing with