Didn’t know this wasn’t a thing - in original classic, my wife started her character on my account, and then we paid to transfer her character to a new account after she had leveled awhile (up to her 40’s maybe, it was a long time ago and I can’t remember). This was because she was not keen on playing much, but once she decided she liked it, of course we want to be able to do so with our own accounts. We then enjoyed maybe 3-4 years of the game before we both quit.
Here we are again, returning to classic, and she is about to hit 40. We don’t have much time to play (it took 2 months to get this far). And I went to see about transferring her character to find it’s not available. There is no way she’s gonna start again, so we are at the mercy of when the feature is available.
Reading the forums here, it looks like paid transfers are discussed often, but basically only in the context of transferring between realms, and all the associated advantages/baggage. We just want to do an account transfer (create new account, move her character to it). This is kind of a big bummer for us. Hope this is coming soon. I guess it was dumb to assume that a feature we had access to in classic was guaranteed to be around.