First it was on, then off, now it's on again... and live. For the cool sum of twenty five beans, you can finally transfer your World of Warcraft character from one server to another... possibly one without quite so many Korean schoolboys flooding the unofficial dark elf hooker profession.

All the rumored details are true: it costs twenty five bucks a character. You take all your swag with you. You can't be the leader of a guild, you have to be at least level 10, you can only transfer once every six months. And if you're a scummy gold farmer, you will be transferred to the Abu Gharaib servers of World of Warcraft. We refer, of course, to the role-playing servers. Florian Eckhardt

Character Transfer Page [Official Site]

Weve noticed some threads asking about the paid character-transfer info currently circulating on the Web. This feature has been in development for some time now, and while we arent ready to launch the service as yet, were planning on releasing details on it in the near future.

Once the details go live, well be able to answer any questions you have about the service. Until then, please post your questions in this thread so we can better gather your feedback.

Hustle it up, Blizz. I'm eager to renew my account — I'm eager to see how my new rig runs Ironforge. Florian Eckhardt

Blizzard Responds to Paid Character Transfers [WoW Forums]
Previously: $25 WoW Character Transfers A Reality

We were a bit agog at Blizzard's plans to sell character transfers for half the retail price of the game, but Kotakuite Cory wrote us in, putting it all in perspective. This is the character migration fee structure for Everquest 2

For moving characters on the same account from one server to a different server:

1 to 2 Characters = $75 (total charge)

3 to 8 Characters = $150 (total charge)

If you want to transfer 3-8 characters from one account to another on a different server, it can cost you up to $375. Moving one character with no items alone will cost an EQ2 player 50 bucks.

Jeezum Crow. MMORPGers sure are opulent suckers, aren't they? Florian Eckhardt

Previously: $25 WoW Character Transfers A Reality

Yesterday, the Australian Vivendi office tipped atomicmpc.com.au that starting today they'd be accepting character transfers between servers. Then Blizzard boo hooed, forcing atomicmpc to remove the post.

So what the hell's the deal? Is my undead zombie rogue finally going to be able to quit a server largely populated by grinding Russki orods and on to a server with a plausible economy.

Well, we're still not quite sure what the deal is, but we were pointed to this screenshot of what claims to be the official FAQ for character transfers. The main news here is transferring a single character will cost you a whopping twenty five bucks. That's just insane. Will Blizzard ever stop figuring out how to turn their money printing machine up another notch? Florian Eckhardt

WoW Character Transfer F.A.Q. (?)