Exo-Slayer
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Just saw this on the forums thought it was interesting enough to post. http://www.gamespot.com/news/6153087.html
Also on the wow forums there is this post.
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-general&t=8798014&p=#post8798146
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?
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.
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).
Also on the wow forums there is this post.
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-general&t=8798014&p=#post8798146
Soon.
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No, really...soon.
We're in internal testing and we plan to release this service in stages. We will start public access to this with a few realms to see how it works out and if it runs smoothly and such. Then, we will expand to more and more sucsessive realms.
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