$25 for a toon transfer?

[Pixi]

To stay on topic: My world transfer seemed automated. So it's 25$ for an automated system to run. Also, I don't think ripping people off is justified because other companies do it as well. I see a lot of people condoning things just because other companies do it.

Look at it this way: time is money. Which of these will take more of your time?

1. Level up fresh on a new server and get the fresh character to the state of the one you wanted to transfer.

2. Earn the $25 it costs to transfer the character you already have.

I'm betting that for most people, earning the $25 for the transfer will be the most efficient method.

[Appleh4x]

Lol people were forced to play on other servers because of initial congestion and over capacity issues, and they aren't offering free transfers? What a joke.

[Alavastre]

Seriously SE?

I mean yes, Blizzard and a few other companies do it, but even to them I question why? You get money from subscriptions, crystals, and probably soon cash shops. Why do you insist of making the community pay 25 dollars for a transfer?

I'll take a stab at it.

Transfers require SE work, not only in ensuring your transfer, but making sure their databases are not corrupted. The price is set to make some money but also discourage people from jumping from one server to another because it's only 5 bucks. If it was easy and didn't require work, SE would love to have a bunch of people transfer so they get money. But I think they're looking at this the other way, a lot of transfers at a low price would cost them money.

This is my assumption.

[h3ll0]

High prices are to discourage server transfers, not to make a quick buck.
Seriously, just stick to a server.....

[Mythrella]

It is not the word "toon" itself, it is the fact that "toon" is a WoW-Term and sorry to burst your bubble, but this is not WoW. And indeed... an action figure is not a doll and a Car is not a Truck and Yellow is not Green.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but "toon" is just as much a WoW term as is "raid", "dungeon", "LFM", "PVP", "PVE", "party", etc. It was around prior to WoW, in other online games, just like these other terms. But, the newbies just aren't aware of that fact. You're welcome for the history lesson

On topic, $25 is pretty standard in most games and completely fair ♥

[Naunet]

It's going to take one person that takes in $25/hr to make the transfer in 1 hour. They need to make sure all your data is transfered correctly and all that unlike where they just have whole bunch of ppl transfering.

Server transfers are generally completely automated processes.

[Flionheart]

$25 is absurdly high for this service, and it was in XI's days too.

[ZohnoReecho]

Lol people were forced to play on other servers because of initial congestion and over capacity issues, and they aren't offering free transfers? What a joke.

Where were you this last month?

[Zaels]

Lol people were forced to play on other servers because of initial congestion and over capacity issues, and they aren't offering free transfers? What a joke.

possibly the dumbest post on this thread

[Nipa]

Servers transfers should be free. Add a big cooldown if you want to avoid abuse or market speculation. Yeah it gives a bit more money to SE, but there are not gameplay reason for that fee to exist. It's an hassle and we are loosing players because of this.

A friend of mine missed the 5 day transfers because his account wasn't subscribed at the time. He is now stuck in another server. Of course, he dropped the game instead of playing alone or paying $25.

We are in 2013. Most players are not long-term customers anymore. They are short term, jumping from MMO to MMO and coming back whenever new content is released. Those players won't pay $25 to come back with a friend for two months. And they can't really reroll, since in this game not rerolling is heavily favored. This is not a nice situation for returning players, and the first wave of returning players will be at 2.1, which is soon.