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World of Warcraft: Name Change, Transfer Cooldown Reduced
Szark
News ManagerMember Posts: 4,420
Blizzard has announced that they have reduced Paid Character Transfer and Paid Name Change cooldown time.
We have made changes to the Paid Character Transfer and Paid Name Change cooldown times, and have lowered them from three months to one month. The cooldown refers to the length of time between when a character first uses one of these services and the next time it can be used. These two services do not share a cooldown.
When the paid transfers originally opened back in June of 2006, they included a six month cooldown. This was rather high as we had no statistics or data that would show us what effect the transfers would have on the game as a whole. It was rather conservative for a new feature. After analyzing any possible security risks, impact on the economy, and effect on in-game communities, the cooldown was reduced to three months in October of 2006.
Since that time we have released eight major content patches and the Burning Crusade expansion, and as the game has evolved we have continued monitoring the impact these services have, who's using them, and purpose for their use. We're now confident that a cooldown reduction to one month will not increase an already minor impact these services have.
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Comments
Good for them, but now if only they would lower the COST...
hackers, botter, gold seller, they make the game cost go up.
wonderful.. now people will only have to wait ONE month before adding to their collection of ninja'd epics...
/target Blizzard
/sigh
These kinds of 'additions' only make me wish I had got into WAR or AoC betas even more
Just another way that Blizz is thinking only of themselves, and not of the players. Get ready for the Ninjas. Those high end guilds will be even more difficult to get into now. I'm glad I got out last month, it wasnt nearly soon enough.