Is the Paid Transfer Ruining WoW Commuinities? : World of Warcraft General Discussions

I have noticed that on my server many good raiding guilds are leaving the server for newer servers with better hardware. Also many of our horde guilds have left and itt's beginning to distroy our commuinity

I don't think it is a good idea, for servers may decrease to extinction, unless they have a limit of players for each server

Its has lots of postitives though. but limiting players may be an idea

Yeah, cause I don't think it is a good idea to cram players in an already Full server

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Yes I think that it is. One of my Servers oldest and best guilds recently did a full transfer to another because we had been having a lot of lag trouble and it was causing raids to fail. Before wen something like this happened the guilds would wait it out, but now they can transfer wherever and wheneverthey want and it is seriously hurting many of the people that have connections with those guild that leave, and then the realm the guild transfers to often makes a fuss about having a new guild to compete with.

IMO i think this is stupid. its just a way for blizz to get more of your money

In a way, they try to limit it, but from what bliz has told me about it, "We make a server unable to transfer too once it has a high community" It appears they update the list every few days too. But I do think that it will eventually ruin all the old servers, but that could be good and let those ppl switch to a new one (for free) then they can get rid of that server and eather replace with a better, or just leave it closed.

I think the PCT is ment for when you make a new friend in real life and decide you want to play with them, finding out they play WoW. So this gives you the ability to play with them. I don't think it was ever ment for full guilds to switch because of their current server conditions. I'm sure blizzard could manage an area where if their records show 50 people transfering from the game guild to another server. After like 5-10 people, they could make that guild unable to transfer and telling the characters that they are considered part of that guild for 3 months and are unable to transfer to that specific server. IMO, that would help out with it.

All in all, I think PCT is a good idea, but I don't like how it's being ran and I don't like how guilds are abusing it.

Nah, i dont think it is. Big raiding guilds leaving means fairer pvp, you dont fight people who are totally decked in T3

It makes PvPing hard. I used to do great at PvP until Naxx guilds transferred over.

As long as there is an even balance between horde and alliance the servers should still be typically fun still.

All the people who transferred seem to be alliance on my server sadly.

Hopefully it will create balance though.

I liked the PCT cause I had two friends I didn't know played WOW and I wanted to play with them. We all transferred our characters to a new realm and began playing together. Its alot more fun playing with people you have actually met rather than some guy with a chaacter name of whatever