Blizzard should make name changes free when transfers are forced. Why is this an issue 20 years on?
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Well I took advantage of a free transfer and got half of my original name plus some random characters. When I logged in I got a free rename.
just start a character with your name on the new realm. When you transfer you’ll be forced to change your name and it’ll be free.
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Confirmed, but it still sucks small sized balls. Had to alter the names of my two favorite characters. NOT PLEASED.
When Blizzard were linking servers they simply put the realm after the name to avoid dupes. I don’t know why they couldn’t have done that now.
If they connected realms players wouldn’t be able to choose what realm to go to. Most servers can choose to go to Mankirk, Pagle, or Atiesh. Mankirk and Pagle are twice as populated as Atiesh. So people get to choose the size of their server. Mankirk is 97% horde and Pagle and Atiesh are 97% Alliance. Horde players are unlikely to choose Pagle or Atiesh and Alli players are unlikely to go to mankirk.
Except we aren’t talking about choosing servers. We are talking about Blizzards inability to apply some common sense and allow people to retain their names.
Well blizzard had a system that “linked” or connected servers and allowed players to retain their names but didn’t allow players to choose their new server. And they had a system of transfers that didn’t allow people to retain their name but gave them a choice of servers. I agree that they perhaps should have created a new system that allowed players a choice of servers and allowed them to keep their name. But Classic is low pop and Blizzard doesn’t want to be creating new software for it.
because the whole point is to shut down the dead servers instead of keeping them active by merging/linking them?
We are discussing naming conventions, not why the servers are being shut down.
With a free/forced transfer, you don’t have to pay for a name change either. It’ll give that for free if the name is taken. If the name isn’t taken, but you want to change, simply eat the name first, then do the transfer.
Tom Ellis said it causes too many issues on the back end, and they still lose players faster than non connected realms.
I think the OP is lying here. Had to changed three of my character names upon transferring server and all it did was ask for the new name each time I logged into that specific toon.
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