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28/08 Finalizing Russian migration
Following the very successful launch of the Russian localization, the vast majority of Russian-speaking players have migrated over to the new Russian-language realms. Four English-language PvP realms in particular were largely populated by Russian-speaking players, so these realms now have low remaining populations. As such, we've decided to offer free character migration off these realms to join larger English-language communities. Once the migrations are complete, these realms will be brought down and prepped for the Wrath of the Lich King launch.

Realms closing [Updated]

Update: These four realms will be closed shortly after the next patch is launched.
Molten Core
Shadowmoon
Stonemaul
Warsong

Update: Please note that a date has not yet been set in regards to when these realms will be closed, but we will update you as soon as a suitable date has been decided.

Free Character Migration
Free character migration will be active from the above realms to different destination realms. This migration will open next week and remain open for some time even after the realms have been closed.
The destination realms for each source realm will be given when the migration opens.

The exact time of closing these migrations will be decided at a later time. When the migration closes, remaining characters will be automatically transferred to the one of their two destination realm with the lowest population.
For information on how the free character migration works, please refer to the relevant FAQ: http://www.wow-europe.com/en/info/faq/charactermove.html

Paid Character Transfers and other migration [Updated]
Players wishing to use the Paid Character Transfer service to go to another realm than those above may of course do so. All the above realms also have migration available to Russian realms until that option closes on September 9th (as per our previous announcement).
Please note that paid character transfers have been closed to the four above realms.

If you have any questions concerning the closing of these realms, or the related migrations, please feel free to post them below and we'll do our very best to answer them. To make sure questions and answers are easier to find, any unrelated posts will be deleted from the thread.

Update: The account conversion and migration periods have been extended until October 28th


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Re: 28/08 Finalizing Russian migration

Q u o t e:
Blizzard, PLEASE, spare 1 of those realms for an additional beta realm. It would be like a breath of fresh air for all of us beta testers.

Beta realms and live realms are not interchangeable like that.


Q u o t e:
A friend of mine paid and transfered his character 2 warsong, will he be able 2 transfer again even though he has 2 months left berfore he can transfer that character again?

Free Character Migration is not affected by the Paid Character Transfer cooldown, so yes, he will.


Q u o t e:
Does that mean we will have 4 brand new and shiny realms for the Wrath of the Lich King launch?

It means the realm hardware will be ready if needed.


Q u o t e:
I would ask if free transfer is possible from STONEMAUL to SKULLCRUSHER.

The destination realms will be based on population data.


Q u o t e:
would it not of made more sense to just merge the realms into one?

Unfortunately not. Even with the population of these four realms merged into a single realm, that realm would have been the lowest populated realm.


Q u o t e:
i wanted to ask... what will become with the guild bank slots we purchased? are they lost? or the money can be returned to guild masters somehow?

Regretfully, as the migration does not carry guild information over, the guild bank slots will need to be re-purchased on the destination realm.


Q u o t e:
Hey, what if I want to stay here on Shadowmoon.

When the migration closes, remaining characters will be automatically transferred to the one of their two destination realm with the lowest population.


Q u o t e:
Does blizzard realise that this is happening to the karazhan realm too?

The impact on Karazhan and other realms has been minimal, as Russian players mainly played on those four realms listed here. That does not mean we're not aware of other population and faction concerns, only that they're not part of this particular scenario.


Q u o t e:
Will the migration take into account existing faction balance (or lack thereof) on destination realm, as in, will horde and alliance players on any of the realms shutting down be looking at the same transfer options, or will you micro-manage it to preserve/create faction balance on target realms?

Faction balance will be taken into account when choosing destination realms. However, there will be no faction restrictions on the migrations. Most likely destination realms have the same faction ratio, and due to the low population on the source realms the faction rations are unlikely to be impacted much.


Q u o t e:
What can those people do who does not want to migrate to Russian realms, they can't stay on stonemaul correct? but is there any way they can transfer their toons to english speaking realms without paying?

They'll be able to move to select English destination realms for free once the Free Character Migration opens later this week.


Q u o t e:
and plz plz or add more server to ruin battlegroup or just delete it

This thread is not about or related to the Ruin Battlegroup. However, as before, Ruin is currently the Battlegroup where new realms will be added when the population on existing realms warrants opening more.

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Re: 28/08 Finalizing Russian migration

Q u o t e:
Karazhan is marked as recommended now, can we have option to transfer there from these 4 old servers?

Destination realms will be announced when the migrations open.
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Re: 28/08 Finalizing Russian migration

Q u o t e:
So, to transfer to another server you need to buy an additional client + normal paid character transfer.

There's no need to buy a new client. You can download a language pack which when installed with be an integral part of your WoW client. You can choose the language from the WoW launcher.

You will need to patch twice though - once per language - if you wish to continue to use both.
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Re: 28/08 Finalizing Russian migration

Q u o t e:
Thanks, mate, that's good news. A link to the language pack options could be very helpful :))

Here you go. :)
https://www.wow-europe.com/account/download.html
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Re: 28/08 Finalizing Russian migration
The migrations have been opened. You can find the details in the following thread: http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=5640177118&sid=1

As we'll move questions and answers to that thread we'll close this one to avoid people having to check two threads.
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Re: 28/08 Finalizing Russian migration [Updated]
The Original Post of this thread has been updated with additional information
http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=5640394530&sid=1
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Re: 28/08 Finalizing Russian migration [Updated]
Following our previous announcements about free character migration from Molten Core, Shadowmoon, Stonemaul and Warsong we wish to advise that we will be closing these realms on Wednesday October 29.

Please see the following thread for more details:
http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=6425612986&postId=64248948682&sid=1#0
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