I am not at all upset about the cost of the faction transfer. I am not upset at all about the server down time that has been going on the past few days. What does upset me is that once again I feel like Blizzard is rushing something to production to meet a deadline and straying even further away from their old mantra "when it is done."

I could be 100% wrong about this but... I feel like Blizz rushed the faction transfer to production to buff Activision's quarter end reporting. There is little doubt that the first month that this is active Blizzard will see a boost in income from the first flood of faction transfers. I think that they had a deadline to try and have it ready by September 1st but it wasn't quite ready to go. In response someone said, "our numbers are down and we need this income for our quarter end statement make it work." This resulted in unstable servers for the past few days. Even though 99.9% of the people that came to these forums and said, "I quit" didn't I am sure that some have esp. those people on servers that have had the instance issue.

Blizzard has never been a company that trades short term gains for long term losses. Well, never until the merger with Activision. Since this merger I continue to feel like Blizzard is rushing things to production at the cost of the quality of their product.

Good. More money for me as a stockholder.

IMO they would make a LOT more money if they reduced it to 15 dollars for a faction change, it seems like people arent doing it because, quite frankly, 30 dollars is totally not worth it, seeing how it doesnt include a free server transfer.

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Good. More money for me as a stockholder.

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Not necessarily. As a stockholder you should probably be more concerned with the company doing the things right, (for the better good of the Company) not fast (to improve short term results). A short term burst in results may be offset by a medium term loss.

Good luck!

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Not necessarily. As a stockholder you should probably be more concerned with the company doing the things right, (for the better good of the Company) not fast (to improve short term results). A short term burst in results may be offset by a medium term loss.

Good luck!

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Buy low sell high.

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IMO they would make a LOT more money if they reduced it to 15 dollars for a faction change, it seems like people arent doing it because, quite frankly, 30 dollars is totally not worth it, seeing how it doesnt include a free server transfer.

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I would totally pay the $30 if it got me to a new server too. But the total of $55... no thanks. Especially since I want to bring a few over to the other side.

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I must be in the wrong forum, 2 months is rushed? /joke

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You know as well as I that a 2 year project can be considered "rushed" if pressure is put on the development team to move something from stage to production before the product is complete. I am not trying to be a forum troll or an anti-Blizzard poster. I am passionate about this game because I love it and as such I think that it is important for me to express my concerns when they arise. A worse situation would be if I felt that this was occurring and thought "meh" because that means I could care less.

Once again I admit I could be 100% wrong.

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Allow me to address some of your concerns. The downtime was not related, in any way, to the Faction Change Service. That time was used to address an ongoing issue with instance creation.

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Thank you for this. My last statement was being written during your post.

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I would totally pay the $30 if it got me to a new server too. But the total of $55... no thanks. Especially since I want to bring a few over to the other side.

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Exactly... It would cost me well over $100 to bring just 3 characters over... That is insane.

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My question is mounts. say i want to make my rogue alliance. say my rogue has a bunch of horde mounts like a white skeletal warhorse. will this mount stay the same upon transfering factions or will it turn into an alliance counterpart? and if so, what counterpart?

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L2read the STICKY

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I would totally pay the $30 if it got me to a new server too. But the total of $55... no thanks. Especially since I want to bring a few over to the other side.

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QFT. I'm still hurting from the account to account transfer I did recently with a horde char on the same server as my main char (ally). Anyway, yeah I do agree that the base prices aren't so great. Like think of all the people who would want to change factions and maybe that of an additional character as well (like fave alt / bank - AH char). A discount would be nice. Also if they changed faction + server, I'd say a price of $35 for both would be perfect. $55, no thanks.

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Allow me to address some of your concerns. The downtime was not related, in any way, to the Faction Change Service. That time was used to address an ongoing issue with instance creation.

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Some accountability and communication from a Blue!

Thank you!

Blizzard will probably say this as an excuse for why it costs so much:

"It prevents ninjas and other undesirable players from spoiling other servers/factions."

Or something.

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QFT. I'm still hurting from the account to account transfer I did recently with a horde char on the same server as my main char (ally). Anyway, yeah I do agree that the base prices aren't so great. Like think of all the people who would want to change factions and maybe that of an additional character as well (like fave alt / bank - AH char). A discount would be nice. Also if they changed faction + server, I'd say a price of $35 for both would be perfect. $55, no thanks.

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Exactly...

35, MAYBE even 40.

But 55 is ludicrous

I am unclear on the problem folks are having coming up with $55. Isn't the faction change $30? I think it is a way of inflating your outrage at not getting something you wanted for free. Blizzard is a "for-profit" business. Why are you packaging your comments with a server transfer? Did they state that the faction change feature would come with a free server change? Please show me where you were promised this. If you can't show me then quietly either use the service or decline it. Your reasons are your own.