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It would be much less elegant (and unpredictable for the player) if transferring removed your ability to do certain quests, a list of which can be found on the WoW website...in a locked file cabinet in a broom closet with 'Beware of the Jaguar," on the door.

Blizzard doesn't use the power of threat and power of GM enough to control stupid behavior. A simple line of "Players must play fair and earn rewards as the game designers intended." in the license would work wonders. This would cure the ills of many exploites of the game. The wasting of time programming the battleground afk honor system, the exploits in instances and now the exploits of transfers.

When I go hunting, at the start of the season at just the crack of dawn, the first kill of a deer is easy. But after a few hours the deer know something has changed and react by being very hard to find. People are no different; especially smart people, who are looking at the rule book trying to find ways to exploit it. Let people drive at 5-10 over the speed limit, it just becomes part of the norm. Put up a photo radar van in a school zone and set it to 1mph and everyone's behavior changes (even if it only took one photo per day).

If blizzard wanted to do right by their gaming community, they would have pushed the server back one day, resetting the event, removed the reputation from the transferring guild, charged them a 2000 gold penalty per toon, and made a big announcement on the front of their website (like they did about gold farmers and spammers) saying exactly what they did and why they did it. As a company in it for profit they need to make such decisions in such a way that the majority of the player base can say, yeah that was fair and those cheaters got what they deserved. I didn't cry over the gold spammers and I wouldn't cry over these assholes either if they get punished, but I am really starting to get pissed at blizzard for allowing cheating to become the norm of wow.