World of Warcraft granting free character migration for one week

World of Warcraft users experiencing high queue times will soon be able to migrate their characters to a new low-population server for free for a one-week period.

Ozzie Mejia

January 15, 2014 4:25 PM

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Blizzard is throwing a life preserver to World of Warcraft players that are drowning in a sea of high queue times. Subscribers in high-population servers will have the option to migrate their characters to a low population realm for free for a one-week period.

"We'll be offering Free Character Migrations next week for realms currently seeing high queue times at login," writes community manager Micah 'Bashiok' Whipple on the WoW forums (via Polygon). "Those looking to avoid waiting to log in can take advantage of the free transfers to a set destination realm. We're targeting the middle of next week for these Free Character Migrations to become available, and they'll remain open for approximately one week, or until a destination realm fills up. If you're looking to transfer with others we recommend setting up plans early to avoid any stragglers being left behind."

Battle.net explains the migration process, which is set to kick off next week. Among the notable items here is that guild leaders must transfer their leadership to another guild member prior to migrating. Also, a player's user interface, friends list, and ignore list will all be reset after the migration.

Ozzie Mejia

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Ozzie has been playing video games since picking up his first NES controller at age 5. He has been into games ever since, only briefly stepping away during his college years. But he was pulled back in after spending years in QA circles for both THQ and Activision, mostly spending time helping to push forward the Guitar Hero series at its peak. Ozzie has become a big fan of platformers, puzzle games, shooters, and RPGs, just to name a few genres, but he’s also a huge sucker for anything with a good, compelling narrative behind it. Because what are video games if you can't enjoy a good story with a fresh Cherry Coke?