When you pay to have a name changed, do logs and other details of previous name transfer to new name?
Logs are based on a character id$ as I recall, not the boolean name of your character.
Oh, I thought new names gave new ID’s
Warcraft Logs and Raider.IO can generally tell when you’ve done a character name change. It may take a little bit of time for it to reflect, depending on the Blizzard API.
Character ID$ are unique and permanent. It’s how the server finds you.
Character IDs can only be changed by server transferring. I THINK they also change when faction changing but I’m not positive. Ignore and friend lists on the back-end use the character ID so if someone buys a race change and goes from a Blood Elf to a troll and changes their name in the process they’re still on your ignore/friend list.
That said character IDs are not available to third parties nor exposed by the API. Third parties use profiling based on achievements and such usually to uniquely ID people. They are pretty good at doing it. If you’re looking to evade them I suggest making sure in your account settings you don’t enable third party developers to access your data. I would further suggest either server transferring or deleting the character for 31 days. By Blizzard’s terms of service all third party providers are REQUIRED to remove all data after 30 days if it cannot be freshened (which you cannot do for a non-existing, deleted character that’s no longer in the Armory nor in-game anywhere). That said Raider io I believe is in violation of these terms and Blizzard hasn’t really gone after them for it. I know Wowprogress changed their website in response to these terms about 2 years ago.
I would be curious how they xfer achieves and quest info if that is true.
I mean I assume they just copy values from the database. It’s all stored as data, just plunk it into a new character ID on the new server, fill it up with all the data necessary from the old one. Discard the old ID, tada. There’s doubtless some relationships that have to be altered a bit but they do it all programmatically.
It only affects forums reputation here all that stuff back to zero.
That’s a lot of work when they already have an automated system to do all of that via ID$. Not saying you’re wrong, just seems a lot more work to create a system to handle changing ID$ and then xferring the data instead of just xferring the entire .json. I think the only reason why the forums and armory get screwed with server changes is because the armory uses a different method for reading character id’s.
I don’t know much about it, but for RIO score, it will take a day-2 to resync it. I just did a server xfer on one of alts, and i went to RIO website next day and resync’d my Blizzard account.
I think everything got xferred over.
Not really difficult to change things with database queries…
for each %table% {
update %table% set id=newid where id=oldid;
}
[[paraphrasing for simplicity]]
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Lol forums reputation.
Character IDs change with a server/faction transfer. I only know this because there was a bug with N’zoth last expansion where if your character was one of the older IDs in the group it would be preferentially targeted by particular mechanics but if you had a history of transfers you wouldn’t be targeted as much.
Maybe they do transfer the data whole and strip out and change the ID. I don’t know how it’s done. I am not an employee of Blizzard nor have I ever been. I just lurk around a lot and know a bit about these matters. Though I admit I’m not 100% positive that the ID is changed. Just fairly confident that I saw it mentioned by a blue once in passing and the evidence in-game is pretty strong via breaking of relationships that are based off it after certain things.
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Well if you like posting vids I cared less when it set me to 0
And this is an example of why I like to say things like “I would like to know” and “I think” when talking about things I’m not 100% on. Thanks! 