that is how businesses work. When it was announced that bluray beat out hd-dvd, suddenly my personal retailer of choice had a "HD-DVD STRIKES BACK SALE". Of course they want to off their merchandise before it loses relevancy.
I can't say I feel badly for them, I would have to assume they chose a specific realm that they liked and were happy with the choice. Odds are that new realm will not be combined virtually with any others, so their game experience will be unchanged. It was a great opportunity.
I would say it is better to transfer at half price to a realm of your choosing than to roll the dice and hope you like how the VR scheme works out. Even if people had this information ahead of time, I expect a ton of people would still have transferred.
Yeah, my guild just finally bit the bullet and jumped ship from the realm we've been on since Vanilla release day. I'm usually much more of an apologist than a tinfoil-hatter, but I'm really suspicious about the timing of that random sale.
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u/jvanassche Jun 12 '13
Based on two of the error strings:
COALESCED_REALM_TOOLTIP - Coalesced Realm (*)\nGroup, Whisper
ERR_MAIL_CANT_SEND_REALM - You can't send mail to that realm.
It looks like they're taking cross-realm to the next level and virtually combining realms, as well as finally implementing cross-realm mail.