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Blizzard announced limited free transfers from PvP to PvE realms in World of Warcraft: Season of Discovery. These transfers will be available multiple times over the next few weeks for a limited time.
Last year, during the launch of World of Warcraft’s Season of Discovery, Tom Ellis mentioned receiving a lot of feedback about faction balance on PvP servers since WoW Classic. He outlined plans for the Season of Discovery’s PvP servers, emphasizing efforts to maintain faction balance. They assured players they would monitor and potentially limit new character creation to maintain balance if necessary.
On the official World of Warcraft forum, WoW Dev Fwoibles now shares that bold decisions were made, including the creation of Enforced Faction Balanced PvP Realms. The dev reveals that Blizzard is happy with how the faction balance system has functioned in the Season of Discovery.
However, they acknowledge player feedback indicating “that the reality of a balanced presence of both factions on a single realm, and that individual layers will not always have equal factions, means that some folks have now decided they would instead prefer a PvE ruleset, but have characters locked to these PvP realms”.
Blizzard aims to ensure everyone enjoys the Season of Discovery to the fullest. In the coming weeks, the game publisher periodically enables Free Character Transfers from PvP to PvE realms. These transfer opportunities will be brief and may not guarantee a transfer due to the need to maintain realm faction balance. Blizzard wants to prevent one faction from overwhelmingly leaving a realm, which could disrupt the balance achieved through months of effort.
Read the entire blue post below:
Good evening everyone,
When we launched Season of Discovery, we made some bold decisions, one of those was the creation of Enforced Faction Balanced PvP Realms. When we did this, we did our best to communicate some caveats that this may not end up being the experience you want from World of Warcraft, as PvP realms can be an intensely challenging experience at times. While we are very happy with how the faction balance system has worked out, we know from player feedback internally and externally that the reality of a balanced presence of both factions on a single realm, and that individual layers will not always have equal factions, means that some folks have now decided they would instead prefer a PvE ruleset, but have characters locked to these PvP realms.
To that end, we genuinely want everyone to have the best time they can in Season of Discovery, so over the next few weeks, we will be periodically opening Free Character Transfers from PvP realms to PvE realms. These transfer windows will open and close fairly rapidly, and we offer no guarantee that you will be able to transfer. The reasoning for this is simple; we need to ensure that one faction doesn’t disproportionally leave a realm, undoing months of hard work with realm faction balance.
These transfer options will be periodically available starting Tuesday and will open and close throughout the rest of this week.
As always, thank for you joining us in Season of Discovery. We’ve experimented a lot and learned much that will ultimately lead to bigger and better things.
