08-02-2005, 01:06 AM
savaughn,Aug 1 2005, 03:24 PM Wrote:Actually, I'd be surprised about this. A huge chunk of what you use in WoW comes from questing. Zeroing out someone's inventory is going to kill everything you gained from questing and put the character on a massive disadvantage. On the flip side, if you zero out the quests you open up similarly abusive situations.
Personally, I'd be surprised if they EVER allowed arbitrary server exchange - paid or otherwise. It's abusive, a paid service carries negative PR, and by NOT allowing transfers they encourage players to spend another 9+ days bringing up a character on a different server to join friends -- which keeps the subscription flowing longer.
They lose by allowing it and win by disallowing it, so it'd surprise me entirely to see it. But then, that doesn't mean it isn't going to happen.
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I'd go naked and broke. It costs them nothing to do it (the technology is already there and tested). I don't see how they lose out assuming that they do something to prevent abuse (I think a cost and a limit should be plenty sufficient).
Even if the number of people that do it might be small, it might be enough to keep those people playing. To get my first character to 60 took me 6-7 months, with no alts. I'd pay to keep that character if I could move to Stormrage, naked or not.
Interesting question though -- if you were level 60, broke, and naked, how would you go about getting yourself geared up? There's obviously begging but that's hardly a good way to start out a guild relationship.