Current Gold Total: <300g
Working on: Away from home

Well I’m still away so unable to play – however faction transfer is apparently now available in the EU!

On the downside, I can’t afford the expense until next weekend at least ;(

It seems quite cheeky, although a sensible business move, that the faction transfer does not come with a server transfer. That means that anyone changing server and faction in the EU has  to pay £35 to do so.

Yet now, with 3 day server transfers and 60 day faction transfer anyone can move to any server, any guild, and play with their friends. Or can transfer to join a hardcore raid guild that previously was inaccessible to them.

This is great news for lots of people. Although there is a down side.

It could cause greater Alliance to Horde ratio imbalance on servers where it already exists. People will be fed up of being outnumbered and abandon ship, maybe even to the other faction on their own server (to save the server transfer fee) which will only make the problem worse.

While this was a problem before with just server transfers, many more people I have spoken to said they would be prepared to transfer factions, when they were previously uninterested in transferring realms – mostly for social reasons.

Transferring server just gives you a batch of new people to play with. Changing factions gives you a whole new perspective on the game, with content you might have missed out on before.

How many people are prepared to pay for a faction transfer, or already have? I know I will.