Will transfers be open before TBC launch

[Edohbajigur-whitemane]

I know transfers closed to support the cloning happening and that the wording was something along the lines of “several weeks”.

I was just wondering if any insight could be shared on whether that several weeks was just an arbitrary amount thrown out to make prepatch and release dates so obvious or if that was correct.

My main question is if there’s any word on whether or not transfers will be available pre-launch or not.

[Teufelgott-shadowsong (Teufelgott)]

If there was a more precise timeframe or date, that would’ve been communicated. If a more precise timeframe or date is determined somewhere down the road, it will be communicated then. Keep an eye on the front page and the Classic forums.

[Kyzera-bloodscalp (Kyzera)]

It was announced earlier by Kaivax:

@Kaivax

Hello yes! We intend to turn on the character transfer service soon after realms go live with the update next week. We need to keep transfers offline until we’re done snapshotting all characters, but that will be finished during maintenance, so realm transfers can be resumed thereafter.

On a related note, we’ve made a small change to realm transfer restrictions. Previously, a player-character was restricted to taking a maximum of 2000 gold with them. Going forward, that maximum has been raised to 5000 gold.

Link: Server transfers - #6 by Kaivax

[Edohbajigur-whitemane]

Perfect, thanks for the non-snide remark (unlike above) and the link!

[Kyzera-bloodscalp (Kyzera)]

You’re welcome.