Considering the enormous amount of limitations being removed in the game in these past few minutes is there any remote chance that you are gonna allow me to use the mounts and mogs I got in EU in my US version of the game and vice versa?
Please Blizz, you don’t even have to announce it, just tell us if it’s even up for consideration or straight up impossible!
mounts and mogs are faction pride kinda things
dont see them opening that up, sadly
Oh but I am not talking about factions, I am talking literally about the fact that I can drop a mount on the EU realm and I won’t have it on the US ones. And that makes no sense!
idk its tricky
just like CN stuff that we will never see
maybe im wrong ofc
Wish they could tell us something about it. There used to be a story around the past decade that they couldn’t do it because of contractual reasons and handling of privacy data, issue is that we all changed contract at the beginning of 2022 anyway and it seems to be compatible from what I have read
This is a restriction on the accounts level, not the faction level. You have an EU account, and a US account? Each zone is region locked due to international rules/laws as well as differing country laws/norms (example is China servers and loot box laws in gaming for Asia).
I dont see this going away ever, as this isnt a game issue.
That’s exactly where I am in doubt tho, for the longest period I have fully agreed with you and that seemed to be the definitive version of the story. But then I received this email at the beginning of the new year saying that the contract with Blizz was now updated:
blizzard-end-user-license-agreement
here is an extract from the line where it describes “Global Play”
You see why I am starting to have hope?
Unfortunately, no not really.
Your bnet launcher is set up so that you will have one Battle.net id and you can then make up to 8 accounts under that ID. These accounts can be on any global zone, but must stay completely standalone from the other 7 accounts under your bnet id. This is for international legal reasons such as currency, national laws regarding gaming/lotteries, taxing the IP for recorded profits, etc.
So in essence, you are allowed “global play” due to the fact you can have a bnet id with an account in each of the 4 world zones, but none of those sub-accounts will ever connect (outside of phsyically paying/transferring a character between these accounts) and with this restriction due to national and international laws, this isnt something Blizzard can have any effect on.
I sincerely doubt this will ever change, unless there are some pretty major changes in how our world does business between regions.
This makes sense, but at the same time I have successfully logged in from the US region on Battle.Net several times (before they merged the chats) and from that region I managed to buy goods and services for my European profile. At the same time I could boot a game that would connect to Europe from it and vice versa!
Activision-Blizzard is set up behind the scenes to handle international transactions and such, but they have to work within the rules.
Look at a car… buying a Dodge in the USA is different than a Dodge in Canada (units of measure, engine tunes, costs, etc). And to move that good from one country to another, you have to fill out the necessary paperwork for the govt and pay taxes to your local govt for this as they missed out on the monies from the initial sale. Almost everything (unless it has a specific trade deal agreement) functions like this country to country, and online data/products are no different.
as someone that started from EU since tbc and had to move to OCE during BFA. I WANT THIS, i missed all my achievements mounts and everything that i had collected all those years. i couldn’t transfer or play with my friends anymore…
Absolutely same! also if WoWhead can pull data from all of the regions easily I don’t know why Blizz can’t just isolate human sensible data and still give us in-game products and cosmetics.
Like, we still double payed stuff, might as-well give us what’s ours in here
I’ve had all but forgotten about this, but now that you reminded me of it, I want my bumblebee mount.
I have my mage tower mogs in EU… I feel physical pain each time I see my set not being complete
This is something they should impelement. Would help a lot of players…
I too would like that at least mounts, pets and achievements could be transferred from one region to another but since your personal data would need to be transferred from the EU or US and vice-versa, due to the Data Protection Laws here in Europe, it is not possible for now.
According to this recent article I could find:
h ttps://www.truendo.com/blog/data-privacy-law-updates-globally-focus-on-europe#:~:text=Cross-Border%20Data%20Transfers&text=Ongoing%20Negotiations%3A%20The%20EU%20and,certainty%20for%20businesses%20in%202024
(For some odd reason it’s not allowing me to post links.)
The article above states the following:
- Cross-Border Data Transfers
The Schrems II ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in 2020 invalidated the EU-US Privacy Shield framework, creating significant challenges for international data transfers. In response, the European Commission has:
Updated Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs): New SCCs were introduced in June 2021 to provide a more robust mechanism for transferring data outside the EU, incorporating additional safeguards to address the concerns raised by the Schrems II decision.
Ongoing Negotiations: The EU and the US are actively negotiating a new data transfer framework to replace the Privacy Shield, aiming to provide greater legal certainty for businesses in 2024.
As stated in bold in the quote above, negotiations are still ongoing as of 11th May 2024. Therefore, we will have to wait and see what will happen. If data could be allowed to move between the EU and US and vice-versa then it will allow companies such as Blizzard to move subscribers’ data from one region to another without any restrictions.
if NA can share a region with OCE countries, i don’t see why blizzard wouldn’t just merge EU into that as well.
Playing on an EU server from US gives me much better ping than i would get if i were to play on an OCE server.
Playing from east coast USA on an EU realm gives me about 94 ping, whereas if i try to play on an OCE server i get about 300-350 ping.