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Friday, 11 January 2013

The Queue: Thunder Isle, hooooo

Welcome back to The Queue, the daily Q&A column in which the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Mike Sacco will be your host today.

I'm getting pretty excited for the new raid, especially after the Ra-den reveal (which I'll discuss later).

brendonmiller02 asked:

I want to know what you guys think about how Blizzard is still charging for server transfers. Don't take this as a complaint, but I just find it odd still that they charge for transfers when a good amount of MMO's on the market either launched with no transfer fee, or removed it after a few months in. I have 3 characters on another server right now that I'd love to have on my home server -- but to get them all there it would be almost 170 bucks (as they are Alliance, and I am now Horde)...and I definitely don't have the time to level three more characters to max level.

Thoughts?

I understand why Blizzard charges for the service: it requires support on every side of the service, from the back-end server stuff to front-end customer service, and as I understand it WoW's server tech (and ergo server transfer tech) is a little different than other MMOs. What I do wish is that you could mass-transfer your characters and there was a maximum you could pay -- let's say $50 -- for all of your characters. That's why I'm so tetchy about transferring to a new server nowadays. I'd have to pay hundreds of dollars to bring all my dudes over to a new server, and, well, screw that. If I could send them all at once for a flat fee, it'd be much better.

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