Limiting the destinations for SoM characters to transfer to is only a bad idea. Its not a huge playerbase to begin with, and for those of us that exist, we accomplished so much, and especially the very few of us that have gotten our Tabard of Mastery. We effectively cannot or will not play our characters. Because we want to play on the realms we play on already. Eranikus, Atiesh and all them, are decently healthy servers anyway. But now we can’t play our SoM characters with the friends we play with on the servers we play on.
This does nothing to effect server queues, this does nothing to impact server balance, you’re only making a very small group of people upset, and making people wait longer to play our SoM characters in the dire hope we could maybe get PAID transfers from Eranikus or whatever to our current realms.
Please, please, I beg, just let us go wherever we want. I’m but a small voice in a sea of many voices, but please let us transfer our SoM characters wherever we want. We’re not a huge population of players, but there are those of us that actually care about our SoM characters, and want to play them with our friends. Due to only being able to go to one server, we just can’t do that.
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What makes even less sense, is that it’s not like they are trying to funnel people to low pop realms either. All the realms listed to transfer to for Wrath are High/Full realms. They need to let us choose which realm to transfer to if there’s no population reasoning for their decision.
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Agreed,
I will leave this here for Blizzard in hopes of being heard:
Most of the players on Swamp of Sorrows were Alliance.
At least half of the remaining players going into the BWL phase transferred to Jom Gabbar.
Can somebody tell me why they aren’t offering transfers to Arugal Alliance at least for OCE especially with the even so slightly unbalanced faction numbers?
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They did the same with Shadowstrike and Horde. Atiesh is a very heavily dominated Alliance server. Why would you want to transfer your character to an essentially dead realm for your faction?
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There’s no logic as far as I can see. Would love to hear an explanation.
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Really gotta question who is making these decisions sometimes. Absolutely clueless.
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My biggest issue here is, my SoM warrior is fully decked out in t3, has the tabard of mastery, has some valuable collectible items I’ve gotten on my journey, I put so many hours into SoM, and it essentially feels like I’m being slapped in the face for even caring about it in the first place, and it feels like my voice will not be heard despite having such a prestigious accomplishment.
Thats my emotional reaction to all this, thats why I’d like to be able to transfer to wherever. To y’know, show off my cool tabard to all my friends.
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I played on Swamp of Sorrows and you killed my server by opening xfers to Jom so i HAD to go there because swamp had 0 people on it
Now your telling me i can only go to a NA server instead of my oceanic server arugal ?
What sort of joke is this
This is a blatant attempt to make money from people having to pay for transfers later on to get to there desired realm
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No option to clone to era AND wrath like they did for classic characters when tbc hit is such a slap in the face. I am sure many of us would throw the 5$ or whatever it was to see a permanent version of our SoM toon on era. While still being able to send them to a wrath server to show off our feats with friends. Big oof on blizzards part and hopefully enough noise is made for them to look into it. Much love SoMers
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Yes this makes absolutely no sense being locked by server type. At very least pvp should be able to move to pve.
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Its not even just that, we’re locked to one server and one server only. Even if we were locked to server type, most of us on Jom could still transfer to Benediction or Grobbulus or whatever, which are all still pvp servers.
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Just allow transfers to realms people already have characters on lmao. Doesn’t seem that crazy.
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People here are missing the point they wanted to figure out a way on how they could profit off giving you free transfers ?
So they decided to send you all the to the realms u don’t want to be on for FREE knowing you’ll go pay for a transfer to the server you want to be on
As if that isn’t blatantly obvious ?
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Heavily agreed. Doing so wouldn’t change server balance at all.
You take one player, you give them the option to transfer to the server they have characters on.
That one player will still be playing on that same server, no matter what.
Now you do what Blizzard did, and only give them the option to play on a server they refuse to play on. You’re not effecting that server population, you’re only making that one player very upset by making them wait longer or indefinitely.
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say there’s 10,000 people on som and xfers are $34 aud each
If they let u transfer wherever u want = $0 profit
If they force you to have to transfer off a server u didn’t want to go to = $340,000 aud
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Issue is, theres not 10000 people that care about transfers on SoM.
Theres like, less than 500.
But yes, what you’re saying makes sense. It just is upsetting, a huge slap in the face.
But if I have to pay to see my SoM toon on Grobbulus, by god I’ll pay it, just let it happen in the first place.
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Yea I’m not paying anything extra to this company anymore for artificial problems they create. Especially for era which is so poorly managed to begin with. The direction, or lack of, is really infuriating.
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Ill just…not play at all and let my sub lapse. Half the reason I was excited for Wrath was when they announced the SOM transfers. If I cant play where I want, I just wont play.
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@aggrend PLEASE my man, you of all people should know how SoM players feel, now we just get put to a realm that none of us play on to begin with. I can’t even use the Classic Era transfer because I already have horde characters on Whitemane-Classic. Forced to Eranikus is such a dumb thing. You guys never cared about SoM and it has shown from the beginning.
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They want people to not be able to bring gold over as well free has no limit but paid has a 5k cap so all people on som with 20-60k etc won’t be able to get it onto there main realms unless they pay for multiple xfers or buy items
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