I just don’t want the option to “go away”, if I wait “too long” for a cheaper price/bundle deal of sorts.
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It’d be nice if they would say whether or not they’d do a fresh vanilla again. I would totally play classic again but that would mean I don’t really care to xfer my toons for tbc launch if I’ll just reroll fresh when vanilla relaunches.
I dont get the big deal with cloning… you either play on classic or classic tbc. Why would you want to play on both? with the same toon? Either stay on classic with you current toon and boost a new one for tbc. My guild left behind our alliance toons and started to level up on a horde server for tbc.
Because I worked on that toon, and I want it in BOTH versions of the Game. If the point of “saving” the progress, so you can have it in either Eras of the Game (for free), what’s different between that and the Copy? I literally, don’t get it.
I’m going to play both.
That’s great. That’s not my experience nor how I utilize my time, in WoW. The Copy Service is more of a “Casual” thing. By “Casual”, I mean for those of us who find enjoyment in the Game that is NOT Raiding nor even PvP. You’d be surprised how many Soloers are out there playing the Game WITHOUT being dependent on other Players to get them through the Game.
I have A LOT to do, and NONE of it includes Raiding nor PvPing.
EDIT: Now, that’s not to say the Copy is JUST/ONLY for us “Casuals”. It can be used for ANYONE wanting BOTH. I just know “the majority” demograph would be the “Casual” playerbase. The Progressors and more of the “hardcore” players will be moving onto BC. And, that’s great! More power to y’all!
Hey, more power to you.
Im not saying you shouldnt or can’t play both. But you cant expect it to be free when it cost blizzard to keep both classic and tbc up. Sure, we can argue about the cost but if you are that attached to the toons. You would pay anything to keep it going.
I mean, I would pay 100 bucs if I can xfer my current decked out alliance mage to horde for tbc. But I can’t and im ok with it.
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Yep, if you wanna copy do it, I’ll probly copy this guy if the classic scene is still popping and not held hostage by speed runners and world buff meta.
I was just saying I wish they’d announce if they plan on doing new classic servers because I would totally be down for that and likely would not copy this guy back to classic.
I agree it would be totally different if they announce new classic servers or a type of seasons for classic. I would clone my dude in a heart beat for that. lol
Personally I think the cost of the copy and the boost is too high.
Though on a technical level, the amount of “work” required to clone a character or create a new level 58 is so minimal that it’s really not even worth thinking about. If it actually made people feel better, they could just reconfigure it so character’s are only snapshotted and not fully cloned until you pay for the service, it’s just easier to clone them and have players pay to unlock them.
Did I say it should be “free”?
I think I’ve made it VERY clear that I’m not asking for it to be “free”. I’m asking for a cheaper price than $35. I’m even giving Blizz the “benefit of the doubt” and OK with $30. At LEAST show SOME distinction between the difference of a Boost and Copy. As of right now, there’s only a $5 difference between the two. Not much of a distinction.
And, again, to be fair, they ALREADY did the Cloning. Even if NONE of us pay for the Copy, Blizz ALREADY did the Cloning for FREE. They’re just charging for the unlock EXACTLY like my OP said, if you actually read it.
Then argue it.
No, not really. I figured Blizz would do something like this (as in charging for the Copies, and I got laughed at, but I digress), so I already mentally prepared myself to “let go” of said characters.
I can still voice my discontent over the overpriced product that I’m hoping we can come to an agreement to instead of pointing fingers and making unnecessary remarks such as the following:
- Don’t like it, don’t buy it
- You can’t expect it to be free, durr!
- You’re unlocking a “new” character! (which again, what difference does it make unlocking 1 “new” character and unlocking both? I still don’t get it)
- So entitled!
- It’s not going to change, deal with it!
At least meet me halfway, here instead of arguing with me, for the sake of arguing 
And, that’s fine. And, it’s ALSO fine, for those who are NOT “OK with it”, either.
The max price of a clone should be drastically lower. The boost is for an entirely new character and it’s 40.00. That means something already established and most likely already lvl 60 should cost a fraction due to how many characters most players have created by now. Something like 10USD per character and a bundle price of 35USD for the entire account makes more sense.
This is the perspective of someone who has no intention of using the clone at all so I’m not even saying this for myself. The current price is an absolute ripoff to the classic community though.
The fact people here don’t know what “Clone” means shows many people here shouldn’t get an opinion on the games direction.
Clone won’t happen until the 18th. You are not being charged to “get your character back”, stop being obtuse… You are being charged only if you want them to exist in 2 versions of the game. This is the first time they have done this in wow. You can not clone between classic and retail, as you know. Buying a close is buying a new character with the exact same gear, quest completion, etc as the other. You end up with 2, distinct, characters. Each character takes up table space in a different database.
A clone is an “entirely new character” as well and effectively serves as a boost for the classic forever realms or the TBC realms for $5 cheaper and with, hopefully, better gear and progression. So you are saving $5 and less BS to go through. You don’t have to level professions, you don’t have to get old attunements, you likely don’t have green gear. Seems like a better deal to me than going classic forever and then buying a TBC boost.
It is no different from the boost. When you pay for a boost they copy a template to a new character. When you buy a clone they copy the toon from a template(the clone). The only difference is that you get your own template for each one rather than paying for use of the generic one. And it’s $5 cheaper.
My theory is the clone cost is so they don’t have people cloning to classic who don’t REALLY want to be there so they can merge servers sooner rather than later.
Yes, you are.
I’m not and even pointed out the “technicality”.
Correct. That’s because the Standard Game is not a Legacy Server.
Again, I don’t understand why bringing a progressed character into BC from Classic is OK but not having that same copy remain in Classic, as well. I (literally) don’t get it 
It’s not >_>
It is different because it’s NOT a “new” character".
Should be $10 “cheaper”, minimum.
I’m going to agree to disagree with you. I don’t want this turned into some back and forth semantics game.
Yeah they don’t let you copy to the ptr from live for free do they? Oh wait…they do…so it is a cash grab then…
PTR is temporary, that is a pretty lame point
So why isn’t there an option for me to just move my toon and not clone it? I don’t want to take up extra resources having the same character on classic and tbc. The fact that option isn’t available shows you for a fact that it’s a cash grab
You can move them for free, the only cost is if you want BOTH. I think you are confused.
Regardless, is there ANY agreement out there for $30 instead of $35? I don’t necessarily think I’m being THAT “entitled” here