WoW Classic's character transfers are live and everything we know

Players can now return to Azeroth as in 2006: World of Warcraft Classic servers are now online. The developer Blizzard Entertainment has moved back the clock of its massively popular multiplayer RPG, and the fans love it. They love so much the players have had to wait for hours before they can play.

WoW Classic is the game that many remember and it has the same visuals, quests and even bugs back when.

Here's what you need to know about WoW Classic.

What's up?

Free character transfers are now available in the US, according to a Blizzard article on Thursday's WoW Classic forums. Players on servers or densely populated realms can now move their characters to a character with fewer players in the hope of having a more balanced population in all available realms.

Blizzard will keep character movements open throughout the weekend, but warns that during peak periods, the transfer may take several hours. Players wishing to participate in the character transfer will need to ensure that their character is not a guild leader, that they have no current bids or active auctions and that they have a box. empty letters. They may also need to change their character's name after the move. This is a permanent change and can not be reversed.

What is WoW Classic?

WoW Classic is version 1.12 of the game known as the Drums of War update. It was released in August 2006, before the release of the first major expansion, The Burning Crusade. The players nicknamed this time in the series of games "vanilla WoW".

How can I go back?

Those who want to return to Azeroth will have to buy a subscription to the Blizzard Shop, which costs $ 15 a month. This subscription also allows players to access the current version of WoW, nicknamed "retail" or "BFR" for Battle for Azeroth. All current WoW subscribers will have access to WoW Classic.

Why is the old man new?

The idea of ​​WoW Classic came from players who started their own private servers with older versions of the game. In April 2016, Blizzard started stop these unauthorized servers, causing a reaction from the fan base, but this prompted the developer to look for a suitable solution. Blizzard makes the first WoW Classic Announcement in November 2017 and in May gave him a August 26 release date.

Do you have to come back?

WoW Classic went to live in the Americas from 15h PT on August 26th and tons flocked. The players who tried to connect right away, however, found themselves in the wait. On launch day, several players shared their queuing time in the WoW Classic subprogram, with waiting periods ranging from 30 minutes to several hours.

Blizzard was expecting extensive queues before launch and adding additional servers for players to join during server startup, but that was not enough because many players have tried to connect. The developer has also increased the number of character slots to 10 per realm.

Another solution used by Blizzard was to increase the maximum number of players allowed on each server. The developer posted on the Blizzard forums of WoW Classic on August 28 about the game's in-game fix.

The same day, Ian Hazzikostas, director of the game World of Warcraft, responded to criticisms made on the Blizzard forums during long queues.

"We have tried to prioritize the long-term health of our kingdom communities, recognizing that if we exceeded the target in terms of launch servers, we could quickly add new realms during opening hours." he said on Tuesday. "But if we went out with too many servers, weeks or months, we would have a much more difficult problem to solve."

Since players started level 1 in WoW Classic, it meant that hundreds of people were trying to complete the same low level quests. Some servers have seen players line up in order to defeat some of the monsters needed for a mission.

You can say that I am on a British server since the players instinctively started queuing to take a quest item each. #WoWClassic pic.twitter.com/l4A7GtXTta

– Jack open commissions (@Grimolk) August 26, 2019

Originally released on August 26th.
Updates, August 27 and 28: Adds details and developer comments September 3: Add character transfer details September 6th: Add news about character transfers and the changed format.