UPDATE - [Classic Era] Are free transfers still active to Whitemane (PvP-West) & Mankrik (PvE-East) Clusters?

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I’m curious to know if these unlimited, one-way free transfers in Classic Era are still in effect. When I last had an active subscription, players on any of the Classic Era realms could create characters on the “dead” clusters, gather stockpiles of contested resources, mail them to a throwaway mule, and then free transfer the mule toon to either the Whitemane or Mankrik clusters. This system has been abused for years (https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/classic-era-exploitation-of-free-transfers/
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/stop-free-transfers-off-low-pop-servers/
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/free-transfer-import-bots-are-killing-the-whitemane-economy/
) and is still a discussed complaint in the pinned Classic GD Exploits thread (Actions Taken to Address Exploitative Gameplay - #624 by Magikhant-grobbulus); but I read that some restrictions have been implemented recently.

Can someone confirm or deny that such migrations have been ended in Classic Era?

Edit: It appears as though these free transfers are (unfortunately) still in place. Thanks for the replies. The info page for Classic Era FCMs has been updated, creating more questions than answers!

Subversion of both realms’ economies, incentivizing indefinite leeching instead of legitimate growth, this was all thoroughly discussed in the thread I posted in the OP.

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Welcome back to CS.

If there hasn’t been a Blue post from the Devs, there likely isn’t anything available to be shared with you here. Just glancing through Wowhead, I didn’t see anything about it, but that was just with a cursory glance.

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I’ve heard chatter that the Classic Era RP-PvP realm Deviate Delight recently had transfers restricted. Perhaps its a fabrication. I haven’t yet seen anything written in Blue about it but figured I’d try investigating CS if anything were visible to the more keyed-in audience.

For Reference:

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According to this article those are the FCM’s being offered. Other then what is listed I know of no other changes

Currently, WoW Classic Era characters can be transferred for free to:

The Americas Europe
* Whitemane (PvP)
  • Mankrik (PvE)|* Firemaw (PvP)
  • Pyrewood Village (PvE)|

In addition to overall Character Migration Restrictions, in case of these free transfers:

  • You can only transfer characters from and to the same realm type (PvP or PvE)
  • You can’t transfer characters from the realm that already connected to the listed realms
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New information available:

It is very peculiar that only a few Classic Era realms are being given this treatment, especially since players on the other, smaller realms have been requesting such an intervention for literal years. . .

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Any feedback is better suited in classic general feedback not collected here.

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I just realized I can’t transfer any more ressources/characters from DD. I had a whole industry of gathering ressources from there, it hurts.

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Consider how your abuse of FCMs has damaged legitimate play across the realms you exploited. This fix should have been implemented immediately across all of Classic Era with the debut of Realm Clusters.

It is encouraging to read that this (years-spanning!) in-game issue is finally getting looked at. Who knows, I may re-enter Azeroth if this fix’s application gets expanded.

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While admittedly, this kind of reeks of a sock situation - take the bickering to your General Discussions, please. This isn’t the place for it.

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What damage ? The server was totally dead for 2 years and bringing ressources to an overpopulated cluster was just doing good. If Blizzard didn’t want us to do that they could have fix it long before.

Besides, it’s difficult to see why it would have prevented you to enjoy the game.

You know, transfers were already part of wow, it was just the free part that was new. So rich people could do it a long time ago.