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Via A plea for the return of paid character transfers

Please re-enable Paid Transfer Service on Era!

This was posted on the EU Classic forum by “Mizane-Blutmund,” but its sentiments are equally applicable on the US servers:

This is Blutmond’s desperate prayer to the faceless powers that guide the destinies of the European Classic Era realmpool Heartstriker-Venoxis-Dragon’s Call.

Nigh three summers past the world has changed drastically over a single night. We woke in empty cities with our guild tabards pale and grey, wondering whether we might ever again measure our skills against the mighty evils that lurk in Azeroth’s dungeons and instances.

Not a day had passed however, when a brave leader of the pack had gathered together what little forces remained. He formed the German guild “Blutmond” and set out to strengthen its members by taking on the Soulflayer in the temple city of Zul’Gurub. Supported by seasoned raidleaders, Blutmond soon progressed to smother the fiery elementals in Molten Core, rid Blackwing Lair of its dragonspawn and cleanse the ruins and temple of Ahn’Qiraj of its insect infestations.

In early spring 2022, Blutmond was ready to enter the floating necropolis of Naxxramas and tackle the undead. With unrelenting patience and willpower, Blutmond’s colourful assembly eventually achieved steady weekly full clears of all instances. We unite WoW veterans and greenhorns, minmaxers and memespeccers, fulltimers and parttimers, as well as people of different origins and tongues all under one banner. Our community has thrived by an unrivalled spirit of sharing and caring, where those who own stock, skills and resources provide for those who have little or nought. Committed heroes have carried our raids through many a hard season. Our leaders have established an intricate rule system which ensures fair and generous participation, loot distribution and conflict resolution.

We proudly believe to have kept alive the true WoW Classic spirit.

However those past seasons various adversities have started to haunt our realmpool. Most threatening of all a surge of soulless beings, come to drain our resources. They bear unspeakable letters for names, need not rest or sleep and possess inhumane capabilities of finding and gathering herb and ore. We call them “Bots”. In the beginning we desperately addressed the powers that govern our world, including our tormentors names in our prayers, but to no avail. Our pleas went unanswered and the invasion only grew. The resources we so direly need to muster the necessary strength to keep the evils of Azeroth in check are being carried off to a faraway place called Firemaw, which is driven by a toxic capitalistic economy that has no place for the poor, the weak or the different. From time to time, we are forced to send a brave traveller to this hell to buy goods which can no longer be gathered because of the Bot-plague.

A fortnight ago, without warning, the bridge between our two realms has shattered one way and some of our travellers are since stranded far away with no possibility to return. Firemaw-“misfits” who have sought refuge on our peaceful realm every now and then now have nowhere to turn to, while the parasites that drain our realms are still allowed to carry away our resources unhindered.

We have carried many a burden without resentment or outcry. However this latest doom shakes our carefully built and sustained community to the core and threatens to ruin our existence. Thus we must take our last stand and turn to those all-powerful beings, hoping they might bless us with grace and justice:

Please reinstall paid transfer from and to our realmpool, so that our lost brothers and sisters as well as Firemaw-refugees may join us and strengthen our ranks once again, while the plague might be eradicated.

Thank you.

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Transfers who players who want to join in on Grobbulus remain closed and yet the resource pipeline to Whitemane remains open.

Please fix.

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You can transfer to Grobbulus from HC servers Skull Rock and Defias Pillager. Not sure if that’s particularly noteworthy, but perhaps it is.

:woman_shrugging:

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Kethryllia,
Please reinstate paid transfers. We are willing to give Blizzard our money for the flexibility of raiding with and visiting different communities. My characters “grew up” on a small community server (US Bene Cluster), and having people pay to join us from Whitemane or Grob was a huge boon. At this point, a lot of the long term Era players have friends across the Era communities (for the US, this would be Whitemane, Bene/Faerlina, Deviate Delight, and Grob). By cutting off paid transfers, you are greatly limiting our opportunities to follow and play with our communities. You are also forcing people to keep their characters in places they do not want to be. As much of time investment as leveling a new character is, some people will absolutely quit rather than start a fresh character. We are willing to give you money to be able to continue to do this. Please reconsider.

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More and more friends cancelling because of era getting stale not being able to move toons around, might be my turn to cancel here soon if nothing changes. Long term era players have friends on all the clusters and want to be able to play with their friends, this shouldn’t be hard to understand. We had the tools to do so and you even profited from it. No one is going to spend the time rerolling and regearing at this point, we will just quit.

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Blizz: please reinstate paid character transfers for Classic Era. I check the shop every day. Take our money!

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Happy to find this thread as I have been incredibly frustrated with this service being turned off.

Few notes and thoughts:

  1. Although realms are connected it is ridiculous that free transfers are set to a specific list of realms, and not all realms. I am someone who likes to have all of my alts on one realm, and only being able to go to Mankrik and not Pagle disallows me from doing this.

  2. I have random alts from times that I played with friends, and now I want to bring the alts “home” to Pagle where I have loads of gold, and a network of profession toons. I currently cannot do this.

My tinfoil hat theory is that something happened with the addition of Anniversary Realms that causes issues with transferring realms and Blizzard is using the guise of “almost entirely a money trap” to skirt past the issue.

Should my theory be just that, one of a tinfoil hat, Blizzard should either reallow the service with a lower cost if their concern is it being a “money trap” (doubt this will happen, wouldn’t want only one version of the game to get a discount), or allow open transferring carte blanche with a list of restrictions to mitigate destroying markets / servers with bots farming materials (level 10+ only, limited amount of transfer per account per year/month).

I am blessed with the ability to move toons with disposable income to keep my character list “clean” to my own standards, and I find it incredibly fishy that an organization such as Blizzard would not allow a “whale” to spend as much money as they please for an essential copy/paste function.

I understand Keth, you are one person who has kindly tried to answer this thread and escalate where possible but I would hope that this is actually a cause for change as this whole scenario seems incredibly disingenuous to a portion of the population who wants to PAY YOU MONEY for a version of the game that receives minimal support and updates.

Keep us here, keep us happy, will keep us spending…its not that hard, Blizzard.

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There is no doubt they are gaslighting us because they broke something when they turned off transfers for the new anniversary realms and inadvertently broke something for era in the process. This new seasonal bug is now our feature, per usual for era.

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Agreed. You know what’s funny too? I accidentally bought two transfers a long time ago. The icon for it is still sitting on my character selection screen, and we had someone else try theirs and it still works.

So they still have the underlying transfer service working and running… just purchases disabled.

Please let us purchase the Paid Transfer Service blizzard. Or open up FCMs to all realms if this is truly about it being a money trap.

Players in Era demand realm mobility with reasonable cooldowns just like you had with the PTS.

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Especially with Era going stale, people being able to move their characters to play with active communities is key to maintaining the player base and subscriptions.

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Of course the underlying transfer system still works!

Restore paid transfers blizzard.

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