Same boat here. Was planning to move my character to a server I’ve got a couple characters on some friends are playing on. My guild in SoM died in BWL so I wouldn’t be moving to continue playing with them.
Not sure the logic behind this besides wanting people to pay for transfers. Forcing a transfer to a specific server will result in people dumping their characters there then never play them, or paying for a transfer (if able) to where they’re playing in Classic Era/Wrath. It will not help server populations (which someone said the destination servers aren’t bad pop anyway).
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to expound upon my last post… i put a lot of time into my som character as far as raiding but also went for scarab lord on my shaman, because i have a scarab lord already on whitemane wotlk (original created on whitemane first day of classic) that i very much wanted to level up in wotlk together to flex my hard earned internet pixels by having dual scarab lords. furthermore this goal stemmed from the fact that way back when wow vanilla released in nov 2004 i was the first gong ringer on the blackhand server.
so anyways the point is, a customer for near 20 years setting out to complete a rather unique accomplishment is thwarted by the arbitrary and baseless decision to funnel people into a single realm with no chance to play on a server where ive already been established.
p.s. the “more rank 14’s and scarab lords” coming in argument is totally irrelevant. in my experience maybe 1 in 50 people or more even give a shoot about a scarab lord, some request to see the mount, but otherwise its a moot issue.
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SoM was never intended to be funneled into Wrath. They stated this at the outset. Now they give you a gift to transfer and you complain. Sorry your cheap SoM gold and scarab lords are going to some dead realm. People find a way to complain about everything.
Perhaps Blizzard will share more information about what factored into the decision.
Perhaps not.
It’s possible that while they are looking at this bug that has caused a halt to transfers that changes are made yet again.
I’m waiting patiently.
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YEAH, TRUE. But it was never intended that most servers besides one PVE and one pvp would be dead a month into the launch of SOM, yet this happened.
I’m really glad blizz is letting us keep our SOM toons and not just deleting them, but it’s just dumb that most of us were forced to join 2 servers (BOTH US EAST COAST) to even have a somewhat decent experience and now we are only given one server option to transer to for both era and wotlk…and it’s based off if you were on a pvp or pve server…
I’m a west coast player. SOM has been a terrible experience for west coast players (I can’t even imagine the experience if you’re an oceanic player). So it super disappointing when you’re only option is some east coast server you have no ties to. All my alliance are on Grobb; I was planning to RP with this dude. Now I have to hope that blizz unlocks grobb and then I have to pay them for basically their incompetance.
I feel like I have stockholme syndrome with blizz. I’m thanking blizz for them throwing me a bone for their own f ups a majority of the time.
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Im going to bite my cheek and take the xfer to eranikus and hope one day that we get our existing realms unlocked because i am confident that blizzard isnt going to respond to us and that their down time with the closed xfers right now is only based on the fact they had issues with transfering to a realm you had opposing faction on
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I really really wish they would reconsider the choice they made here and realize this goes against their “core values” and there literally is no difference from making a brand new character/boosting a character and allowing us to transfer to realms we have existing characters on provided its the same account… Such a total and complete let down ive planned so heavily on this
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The xfers are down right now maybe theres some hope that they will make a change
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How many people do we need to post here to get some attention!???
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Kind of hoping here that they’re not only just fixing the bug, but also reconsidering the realm transfer restrictions while transfers are down.
Nevertheless, I’m sitting here staring at my SoM Warrior, all decked out, sitting at the dark portal ready to transfer to Grobbulus. If they make it so I can bring my warrior there, that is all I’ll be doing for the next few weeks. If its still going to Eranikus, I’m never touching that warrior ever again, and it will be very sad.
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you are literally here to troll people who enjoy playing the same game as you do… what is wrong with you that you feel its a thing you need to do posting here like that? We just want transparency and a response to an obvious oversite in the fact we cause no additional server que or harm because its the same as boosting/new character within the same account… Correct they announced being able to move into WOTLK and a lot of us were thrilled to hear that and a bunch of others wanted to move to era but not only is the option for WOTLK not on our home servers+ wrong time zone but the Era option is a hand picked forced together realm (also wrong time zone )
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I am in the same position i will send it to eranikus and wait for the day faerlina becomes unlocked if ever… If they dont unlock the realms ill just let it rot over there. i have zero intention of starting over on a new realm when i have 3 current 80s in 2 diff guilds/friends on faerlina
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I’m genuinely surprised anyone cares about this! I’m actually against clones and always have been. I think it was a bad system then and I still think it is.
However, I do agree with the point of this thread that it would be nice if SoM characters could transfer to wherever they want.
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If blizzard didn’t kill every single server apart from him then I could understand but now they’re basically forcing everyone who played som to one server again. I play oceanic so if I want to play my son character I have to buy another transfer off eranikus to move to yojamba. Blizzard you caused the death of every server outside of jom with the transfers, let us move our characters to our home realms…
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Troll people? It is called Season of Mastery. They said at the beginning that characters would go to era servers at the end. Have you been living under a rock for the last 15 years? Never played a season on a game? Characters never go to servers with updated content on any season ive ever played. Get a grip. Sorry you came up with some magical idea in your head that youd be able to go to Wrath servers when they stated originally that you wouldnt be able to.
You guys signed up for a season. Youre lucky youre getting any option to transfer to a live server at all.
If you could reply with something more constructive and thoughtful, I would understand your viewpoint a lot better. Unfortunately it looks like you haven’t read the original post at the top.
Also, would recommend being less aggressive on the forums, no one is here to listen to you smack talk others based on your own ideals.
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Tell us you’re a blizzard shill without telling us.
Nah i just signed up to play a season and i did it and moved on. Hard concept to understand around here i guess.
You signed up and were happy with the destination so you think it’s funny to abuse people who moved to jom because they literally could not play the game on their home server anymore.
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