Problem with collections

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Ok, so even though I realize it is a marginal problem that does not affect most of the people, is there any good reason why collections are not shared between EU and US accounts?

Yes, I understand why the licenses need to be separated, that there cannot be any transfers of character between EU and US, but why can we not have at least shared collections/achievements? It is especially weird that rewards from EU versions of Hearthstone, HotS do transfer to the US WoW accounts (same goes for Blizzcon rewards) so clearly, they are in some ways connected. I don’t understand why collections cannot be fully battlenet account bound and not tied to specific WoW licenses. The total division between US and EU versions is bad as it is, but separated collections are entirely unnecessary.

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That is why.

Quick one!

Collections and achievements are connected to a A CHARACTER. You already answered the question; Since they don’t do the one, they don’t do the other. Even in the same server world (USA, or whatever), they are connected to the character.

People have even ran into this in the SAME region, when they wanted to transfer a minor child’s character to a new account. The collections, achievements and so forth which the main character got on the Parent account, do not transfer with that transferring character to a new account.

Items in the Collections tab are account-bound, and will not transfer to a different Blizzard account. Pets or mounts associated with a character-specific achievement will transfer, but only for the character that unlocked the achievement.

Character-specific achievements will transfer to the new account, but most other achievements won’t.

So, let me give an example. Let us suppose that it is the CHILD who is the busy beaver, having unlocked lots of “glory of the _______raider” mounts and such. So the Parent has also been enjoying this “inflated” mount number, with lots of cool mounts! So if the character that is though to to be “the child’s” is moved to a new account, which fully becomes that child’s (at 18/whatever) then the Parent will notice a dwindling of mount numbers; The child would see the same, for any things specifically gained by the Parent’s character.

Again, that would be with a character being moved to another account IN THE USA/on USA servers (or in Europe/to a new account on European servers.) Even then, full collections don’t go.

EU and US Wow accounts are completely separate. Nothing transfers. Mentioning other little Blizzard games where things do, is moot.

You don’t mention the issue, but if I had to move to Europe I’d sure as heck still play this Wow account with my characters; It would never be worth starting over, I’d just accept the bad ping (if there was one.)

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People have even ran into this in the SAME region, when they wanted to transfer a minor child’s character to a new account. The collections, achievements and so forth which the main character got on the Parent account, do not transfer with that transferring character to a new account.

Wait, is this even a thing? You can transfer a character to completely different battlenet account? Never heard of this before.

EU and US Wow accounts are completely separate. Nothing transfers. Mentioning other little Blizzard games where things do, is moot.

But that is the thing there are actually mounts that are already bound to the battle.net account not to the individual licenses or characters as you say. When there was promotion in HotS or Hearthstone that rewarded mount in WoW, those mounts even when earned in EU transferred to the US, same with Interceptor mount from Blizzcon, etc.

if I had to move to Europe I’d sure as heck still play this Wow account with my characters; It would never be worth starting over, I’d just accept the bad ping

Ping is honestly least of the issues, and it is surprisingly not as bad as people usually think. Problem is not being able to play with people in place where you actually live now, i have this account for more than ten years, and stuff in life just don’t stay the same. As you said, even though I am casual,i guess, I still have some stuff that can’t be obtained anymore like Scroll of Ressurection mount, etc. so I really do not want to totally abandon this account and start from scratch.

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? why would that matter on the Internet? You don’t need to know them in real life.

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Other way around lol. Being able to play with people you know in real life. Did not make it clear i guess. Also yes you can play with people you dont really know but trust me that time difference makes this really difficult anyway.

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Your collections are shared on linked accounts. Unconnected accounts must earn them separately.

You can transfer a character from one account to an unconnected account you also own, but I assume that is in the same region.

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I suppose that by linked accounts you mean multiple WoW accounts on single battlenet account right? Or am i missing something?

Yea i am pretty sure there is no possibility to transfer character from US to EU. That would be dream come true.