Why are we STILL unable to transfer between regions?

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If I’m moving over to Europe, I have two choices:

  1. Continue playing on my US account (which I’ve had for 20 years) and put up with latency, or
  2. Start over from scratch with an EU account

Why, after 20 years, is transferring between regions still not possible?

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Cuz its a different region, servers are in different countries

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The barriers are legal. Incompatible EULA’s in different regions because “it was set up that way originally”. It’s not completely impossible to change after the fact, but real laws in other countries make it very difficult.

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Regions also have limitations based on marketing practices which would like break agreements. Like the Mountain Dew promotion pieces don’t fly in some countries

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It’s more of a legal issue more so than a technical issue. It’s likely possible, but the amount of barriers Blizz would make you jump through probably isn’t worth it.

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Basically, they would’ve had to have set it up that way originally (like FFXIV did), with compatible EULA’s everywhere, without doing promotions that are illegal in some places.

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Region-specific items/achievements could simply be “removed” from your account if you wanted to transfer. So in the case of the Mountain Dew mount, you would lose it if you switched from US to EU.

I’d rather lose items/achievements compared to starting all over again.

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That sounds like it adds a lot of complications, where both regional offices would need to research which items can stay and which cannot, come up with the designations for what has to change based on every region, then they’d need to handle other unique situations. What if someone moves back to their old region? Do they get the old stuff that was removed back? What about PvP items, or M+/Gladiator titles?

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And people would not be happy about losing mounts from promotions that are illegal in the EU. But that would be the only way.

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Same planet though…

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It’s technically possible but probably not enough demand to justify the work required

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The above posted legal reasons, plus only like 5 people would be using it. So what youre asking is for 20 year old infrastructure to be redone and legal negotiations redrawn for something you yourself probably said was stupid and unfair 20 yrs ago (when it didnt affect you).

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I see your point, thats why this guy cant transfer his account

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EU gold doesn’t taste the same

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It’s crazy that WORLD of warcraft can’t accommodate people relocating to different regions of the world.

I’m in the same boat. The time difference doesn’t allow me to play with my guild and I hate solo play and pugging. So I’m about to just quit the game. I can’t stomach starting from scratch.