Paid transfer and name change cooldowns reduced

Posted Feb 25th 2008 12:30PM by Eliah Hecht
Filed under: Blizzard, News items

European CM Thundgot announced today that the cooldown periods for both paid character transfer and paid character name changes have been reduced from three months to one month, effective immediately. The transfer cooldown was originally six months when the feature was introduced in June 2006, but was reduced to three in October 2006. In the intervening time, they've looked at server logs and so forth and come to the conclusion that moving it to one month would not have catastrophic consequences.

This change appears to be effective on the US realms as well, so wherever you are, you can hop servers and adopt new aliases every month if you want to pay for it. Also, Thundy clarifies that as long as your last transfer/name change was at least 30 days ago, you are immediately eligible for transfer/name change now. He also said that "moving forward" the price for paid transfer is going to be 20€/£15, but given his phrasing and the fact that I'm on the North American realms, I can't tell if that pricing is new or not. Do any of you know? Edit: Not new; thanks.

Tags: blue, character-transfer, name-change, paid-character-transfer, paid-name-change, pct, thundgot, transfer

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

2-25-2008 @ 12:38PM

Mike said...

I recently paid for a transfer on the EU realms - it was £14.99, so yeah the above figure is accurate.

2-25-2008 @ 12:39PM

arb said...

Well, damn those leeches at Blizzard! It was previously 19.99€/£14.99. Another unnecessary price increase!

;)

2-25-2008 @ 1:14PM

alrdye said...

I just checked out a name I changed from on my US server well over 30 days ago and it's still not available for a new character.

2-25-2008 @ 1:57PM

ThorinII said...

They need to leave the cool downs alone and just make it $10 U.S. for transfers. $25 is rediculous!

2-25-2008 @ 2:36PM

Loudfiero said...

for northeast, I would say Turalyon

2-26-2008 @ 7:18AM

Chelon said...

I'm delighted in the cooldown. I just made a hasty transfer and made the following discoveries (I know, I'm a noob):

1) The que for AV is now > 1 Hr(!)
2) The local time is now 16 off of Eastern Standard Time (I think I'm in Australia, everyone keeps saying mate).

Now I can fix this in 1 month rather than 3 (although the aussies are rather pleasant)

If anyone can recommend an EST server with good AV wait times, I can sure use the guidance.

2-26-2008 @ 8:04AM

Chais said...

Magtheridon is an EST server
and if you are horde you will probably get smashed by the best ret pally ever (Kamil)
hes on warcraft movies
check him out

2-28-2008 @ 7:27PM

Thelight said...

scilla loses all the time so dont go here if u r alli or horde stay away from the whole stormstrike battlegroup it is so shitty i repseced PvE Resto and Moonki, i was previsouly a huge PvPer

3-12-2008 @ 1:29PM

Thelight said...

ftl

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