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25 Dollars for Character Transfer in WOW(pic)
KeyWord: wow,character,transfer Date: 06-23-2006
Summary:What the crowd in this world! What a long queue to wait before enjoy the game! Well,don?t complain, spent ?25 and you can get rid of all the trouble.

Ever feel the crowed people in the virtual world? Ever feel the awful waiting for the long queue before entering a game? Well, if these are just your complaint about World of Warcraft, you are a lucky one from now on. Blizzard revealed that spend ?25 and you will get the chance to move to a less-populated realm. Here speaking of chance, it means there are some restrictions. Firstly you can only transfer to another realm once time in six month, and cann?t be reversed. Secondly you cannot alreaday have a character of the opposing faction on the destination realm. Thirdly, characters can only be tansfered between realms of the same type, or from a PvP to a PvE realm. Of course, more necessaries are needed before you start a new journey, you can head over to Gamespot for the details.

GameSpot: What?s the incentive for players to transfer to a less-populated realm? We know that they get shorter wait queues to log on, but don?t they lose all their friends who don?t transfer over, especially if your friends balk at the fee?

Shane Dabiri: We have a portion of the players on every realm who are not part of a guild, so it may be an appealing option for them. In addition, there may be some guilds that choose to move over to less-populated realms. Our goal with this is not so much about providing incentives for players to transfer realms as it is about offering an additional service for their convenience. This is something that many players have asked us about for a long time, so we’re glad that we’ll be able to make the service available to them in the near future.

GS: Speaking of the fee, Blizzard is charging ?25 per character transfer. Is this to prevent people from abusing the feature? Will you be able to transfer a character as much as you want, so long as you?re willing to pay ?25 each time? And what sorts of transfer restrictions are there in general?

SD: A character can only be transferred to a new realm once every six months, and once completed, a character transfer cannot be reversed. Also, there will be both character and realm restrictions. For example, you will need to be at least level 10 to transfer realms, and you’ll only be able to carry over a certain amount of gold. The cap is set at 300 gold for characters between levels 10 and 30, 1,000 gold for characters between levels 31 and 50, and characters at level 51 and above can bring a maximum of 5,000 gold.

As for realm restrictions, players can only transfer characters between realms of the same type, or from a PvP to a normal (PvE) realm. To prevent players from leveling up without the challenges of a PvP environment and then unfairly being able to make leveling up more difficult for other players on a PvP realm, transfers from a normal to a PvP realm are not permitted. Also, if a player decides to transfer from one PvP realm to another PvP realm, he/she can only do so if there is no faction violation (that is, players cannot already have a character of the opposing faction on the destination realm).

Most of the restrictions we have in place are to prevent abuse of the service, and we don?t feel they will impact regular players.


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