I am genuinely upset about this decision and feel that we will not get the answer we want and that the months + played time i have on my SOM characters will never see the light of day… the game ended abruptly as soon as they stopped working on changes when AQ launched we got the smallest changes and they stopped caring… and its so evident now they still dont care
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F for SOM players, Grow up blizz stop being greedy.
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its not even about them being greedy they stand to make little money to no money from this unless you actively play on a realm that isnt currently locked unless a few months down the line they open realms back up and get us to transfer then… because realistically my only hope is to take the eranikus xfer and wait till they unlock faerlina which may never even happen
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That’s a bit strong.
I understand people are disappointed but maybe Blizzard is trying to contine working on balancing server populations. They also might want to limit the servers for transfer if issues arise they can focus their efforts to fix them and not have to chase them down across all servers.
I’m just guessing. It would have been nice to hear how the decision came about but people even hearing the explanation may have still been upset.
I’m basically fine with it and I know a few others in my circle of friends in game are cool with it as well. I do wish though that if the options are due to locked servers/population issues, where was poor Earthfury? It just seems like there’s a permanent blind spot there. Makes me sad for them.
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they are giving all these xfers for free and they are merging all classic era realms as much as they can into whitemane to give era a somewhat healthy population
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the thing is asma… allowing xfers to realms where you already have existing characters you play on does nothing to server balance/que time… you are only online 1 character at a time… its the same as boosting a new 70 or making a level 1. Without a doubt this is disrespectful as they threw us a giant bone by letting us move forward into WOTLK instead of the Era realm we expected from the start but the months long silence and then suddenly today they are pushing a era merge into whitemane and want SOM characters to go there or to their new “shiny amazing success story” eranikus… feels wrong
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I hope we get an official response to this. Moving my SoM characters to servers that I already have chars on would not change whether I play on those servers, the queues/population would be unchanged. However in their proposed solution I just simply won’t play these characters, they will sit dormant and unplayed.
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100% agree i want a response as to why we cant move to existing max level character realms and my only option is to take the xfer to eranikus and hopefully one day wait till my main realm faerlina is unlocked and pay them their 25 dollars
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Not necessarily.
My SoM characters are on a different account.
I’m not the only one in that situation.
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I don’t see it being a big ask to be aloud to xfer to any realm you have say a lvl 70 on already? Its a server your not locked to play on, just to xfer to. It is short sighted and the only reason I can think to do this is to later collect xfer charges. Otherwise it seems to only be pissing off their Clients (som players in this case). And never ever forget we are paying Clients, we pay for a service they provide and we do not like poor service.
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Then in fairness i could see not allowing your characters to move to a realm you do not have existing characters on there would be no control then, as one sided towards my end as that sounds its the middle ground that feels fair
I believe Blizzard thinks it split the baby and what we got was the middle ground.
the problem is that they are supposed to be about community and guilds and friends thats the classic experience/motto or what ever … forcing us into realms we have no connection to when we have max level characters embedded into realms we have been on since 2019 is disrespectful to what their core values claim to be… we are the minority here i understand and likely we wont ever get a response to this and ill unhappily take the xfer to eranikus and bide my time till i can give them 25 dollars to get home
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There IS SOME HOPE because as of right now the transfers are down and you cannot move - 2 hours ago they announced that on the blue post due to technical issues probably because of the characters movin to a realm you have a opposite faction on was bugged but at least this will be a stop on the transfers because they were very specific they would not help anyone moving twice its not possible " the technology doesnt exist" lmao unless you pay them 25 dollars
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i wish i knew the amount of post engagement might bring us attention from a developer but ill keep posting in hopes we can get a response… i planned heavily for my warrior making it to my current realm i grinded full BG exalted +35k honorable kills and have so much time into it… i cant bare to see it rot
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Whitemane is the PvP West Coast and Mankrik is the PvE East Coast. Both of these clusters receive free transfers from other Era realms of the same server-type. There are also PvP East (where I play) and PvE West Classic Era realms.
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Really heartbroken here blizz, have to see my hard earned scarab lord warrior be moved to a server with no one, and a server I’d never play on. And I had saved up engi mats to level my warrs engi to max right away, and was so excited to play on it. This is cruel tbh, when letting ppl who have existing chars already on a server transfer would add no ppl to the queue.
Also, Blizz, do you not realize hypes for expacs ALWAYS die down? You saw every single expac die down after the initial launch hype. You really expect this queue to last forever? You’re really angering some of your most loyal customers.
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I am in the exact same boat. Swamp of sorrows died, there was literally noone left on it so it was either play a solo rpg or move to jom, which died for oceania anyway almost instantly. Now I have to move my character to whitemane or pay to transfer it to an oceanic server. This is blizzard attempting to cash in on its players once again, what a joke.
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i am also upset by this foolish decision to limit realms.
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100% agree, I rarely post here but another thoughtless approach by Blizzard has brought me out from under my rock.
I have long planned to bring my SoM character to Old Blanchy (where I already have characters) to play with a small cluster of friends and bring more flexibility to their small guild.
The ability to take your SoM character/s to join your other well established Wrath characters on their servers seemed like a intuitive thought process that I’m sure many of us had. It’s unbelievable (maybe not) that Blizzard would instead take this route of forcing a extremely limited number of server choices or just letting your characters get deleted in due time if you don’t do what they want.
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