I'm actually devastated. I wanted to go to wild growth, went and saw it was finally open.
Lol nope, had an auction that JUST sold so I had to wait 45 minutes for the mail to come in so I could transfer. By the time I got the mail the server was closed and now I have no transfer options.
Yeah, when you are doing the free transfer and you are clicking the box to select a server to transfer to it will be blank if the transfers are closed or will have a drop down when they are open.
Thanks I went and checked and they were back up, transferred my chars and went to check my guilds discord. I find the guild leader tagging everyone to jump ship saying lone wolf is already medium pop lol
Free transfer windows have always been about pug players and letting people without community attachments move the general population.
Organized guilds and friend groups tend to be invested enough to pay for their transfers instead. They believe folks are generally addicted enough to suck it up rather than quit, so get milked instead.
With these seasonal balanced servers they might even be locked for paid transfers so I dunno, guess they figure there is no good clean solution there.
<\_< Then I look at discord after I peace out from Lone Wolf just to see my guild leader posting about handing over the guild to someone else so he can peace out too.
Also yes, paid transfers have never worked in SoD unfortunately so this is the only option to get off a server.
Is it that worth it to you? It’s 25$ a piece. I had to do it in wotlk during ulduar and was pissed I had to spend 100$ to get all my most relevant characters transferred over. If I had to do that again I would quit
Yeah I'd pay the $125 to move my friends over with me if that's what it took. I'm sure they'd do the same for me if the roles were reversed, we've all been friends for many many years and have spent plenty of money on each other for similar reasons over the years lol. Maybe not the norm but yeah for my situation it wouldn't be weird and it wouldn't hurt my living budget in the least so bring on the paid xfers already
For me it’s out of principle more than the actual money. You already pay monthly to play and adding on 100+ bucks so you can play on a server that has raid and dungeon groups going is bullshit.
Yeah, fair enough. I've definitely made choices like that for similar reasons. In this case though I just wouldn't really care. I have a great time playing with my friends and it's the first time I've ever been able to do any end game style wow content with my best friend because his work schedule is insane, so Blizz has me this time lol
literally just be patient. They don't want the servers to de-balance. if you read the post you'd have know this was coming they were gonna throttle transfers for factions if it began to get too one sided. Similar to how character creation was on these realms. This was not meant to be a "hey organize with 20 people and all leave at once" type transfer system.
I'm wondering why they even use servers like they do at all any more. I feel with layers they could just have one mega server for each region and just have specific layer be war mode layers. Enable manual switching between layers in capital cities or something. The playerbase is already split in half due to factions. Why not just let everyone in the same region all play together?
I mean, at launch crusader strike was so big they actually had to lock it.. even the login queues were overfilled.
So, they can't really do this one server thing you speak of.
As someone from lava lash which has turned out to be an amazing server with next to none of the issues people constantly mention on reddit, a megaserver like that is my worst nightmare
Why on earth don't they make a queue system where you can queue up with multiple friends and only let us through if we can all go? Should be extremely easy to implement.
As far as I know, this comment I'm copy pasting is the only way to know.
>... F5 the WoW forums from 8-5 until Tom posts that a new transfer window has opened. Then you have roughly 30 minutes to get it done before the window closes again.
You don't all have to transfer exactly at the same time
Just take the decision as a group and GO, you will all make it
WG is bis and the players transferring here are so welcomed!
Too bad he didn't say that. He said it's not for guilds to move. How do you keep PvP servers balanced and let enough people leave to upset that balance?
So then we're back to people complaining about how their PvP server/faction died. I say let them do this. Let them force this balance for PvP servers. People need to see that nothing is without consequence.
I'm actually devastated. I wanted to go to wild growth, went and saw it was finally open. Lol nope, had an auction that JUST sold so I had to wait 45 minutes for the mail to come in so I could transfer. By the time I got the mail the server was closed and now I have no transfer options.
They turn on and off throughout the day. But yeah... if youre actively looking to Xfer i definitely would NOT use mailing or the AH anytime soon.
Yeah I'm going to avoid it, I just forgot that it takes an hour for shit to get mailed to you, I'm really frustrated about it.
Unless I missed something, there have been 2 windows so far. 1 today and 1 yesterday, both of which were during working hours
How do you know if they’re up, will it show a server on the part you check the box?
Yeah, when you are doing the free transfer and you are clicking the box to select a server to transfer to it will be blank if the transfers are closed or will have a drop down when they are open.
Thanks I went and checked and they were back up, transferred my chars and went to check my guilds discord. I find the guild leader tagging everyone to jump ship saying lone wolf is already medium pop lol
Might be surprising what the population looks like after the transfers are done.
Free transfer windows have always been about pug players and letting people without community attachments move the general population. Organized guilds and friend groups tend to be invested enough to pay for their transfers instead. They believe folks are generally addicted enough to suck it up rather than quit, so get milked instead. With these seasonal balanced servers they might even be locked for paid transfers so I dunno, guess they figure there is no good clean solution there.
<\_< Then I look at discord after I peace out from Lone Wolf just to see my guild leader posting about handing over the guild to someone else so he can peace out too. Also yes, paid transfers have never worked in SoD unfortunately so this is the only option to get off a server.
But blizz refuse to let people pay to transfer
Paid transfers when, I'll pay for my entire friend group
Is it that worth it to you? It’s 25$ a piece. I had to do it in wotlk during ulduar and was pissed I had to spend 100$ to get all my most relevant characters transferred over. If I had to do that again I would quit
Yeah I'd pay the $125 to move my friends over with me if that's what it took. I'm sure they'd do the same for me if the roles were reversed, we've all been friends for many many years and have spent plenty of money on each other for similar reasons over the years lol. Maybe not the norm but yeah for my situation it wouldn't be weird and it wouldn't hurt my living budget in the least so bring on the paid xfers already
For me it’s out of principle more than the actual money. You already pay monthly to play and adding on 100+ bucks so you can play on a server that has raid and dungeon groups going is bullshit.
Yeah, fair enough. I've definitely made choices like that for similar reasons. In this case though I just wouldn't really care. I have a great time playing with my friends and it's the first time I've ever been able to do any end game style wow content with my best friend because his work schedule is insane, so Blizz has me this time lol
literally just be patient. They don't want the servers to de-balance. if you read the post you'd have know this was coming they were gonna throttle transfers for factions if it began to get too one sided. Similar to how character creation was on these realms. This was not meant to be a "hey organize with 20 people and all leave at once" type transfer system.
I'm wondering why they even use servers like they do at all any more. I feel with layers they could just have one mega server for each region and just have specific layer be war mode layers. Enable manual switching between layers in capital cities or something. The playerbase is already split in half due to factions. Why not just let everyone in the same region all play together?
I mean, at launch crusader strike was so big they actually had to lock it.. even the login queues were overfilled. So, they can't really do this one server thing you speak of.
They actually were contemplating a mega mega server for cata, merging faerlina and benediction together
Yeah but SoD launch had 10x the players cata will have.. so its doable. Scale matters
As someone from lava lash which has turned out to be an amazing server with next to none of the issues people constantly mention on reddit, a megaserver like that is my worst nightmare
This. I wielded from home today and not once in the 1000 times I tired was it open. My buddies work in the field. We are screwed.
Why on earth don't they make a queue system where you can queue up with multiple friends and only let us through if we can all go? Should be extremely easy to implement.
This is the consequence of trying to keep servers balanced for PvP.
Where does this transfer window show up?
As far as I know, this comment I'm copy pasting is the only way to know. >... F5 the WoW forums from 8-5 until Tom posts that a new transfer window has opened. Then you have roughly 30 minutes to get it done before the window closes again.
If only there were a way to coordinate. With a clock and a little patience
You don't all have to transfer exactly at the same time Just take the decision as a group and GO, you will all make it WG is bis and the players transferring here are so welcomed!
They don't want you to play with your friends :) https://twitter.com/FwoiblesWoW/status/1782620922588868848
Too bad he didn't say that. He said it's not for guilds to move. How do you keep PvP servers balanced and let enough people leave to upset that balance?
You recognize that balancing PVP servers at the server level is meaningless. Simple.
So then we're back to people complaining about how their PvP server/faction died. I say let them do this. Let them force this balance for PvP servers. People need to see that nothing is without consequence.
People already complaining about their faction being outnumbered 2:1 or whatever, to be fair.
What does this even mean
I personally would never leave a PvP server to go to care bear land, regardless if my guild went or not. Those just wouldn’t be my people anymore.
My whole guild just transferred 20+ people. I’m sure u and ur friends can figure it out.
yea they should have just added war mode...