14/01 FCM: Alliance PvE to Magtheridon PvP

Update 28/01
Free migration from all the below realms has been extended until February 2nd, and these additional realms will also have the same opportunity until that date:
Aerie Peak
Aggramar
Azjol-Nerub
Khadgar
Turalyon

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Update 21/01
Free migration from the original 5 realms has been extended until January 27th, and these additional realms will also have the same opportunity until that date:
Alonsus
Bronze Dragonflight
Bronzebeard
Eonar
Kul Tiras

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To address faction imbalance issues on PvP realm Magtheridon, Free Character Migration is available for (only) Alliance players from a number of PvE realms. The migration will be available from January 14th to 20th.

Alliance from the following PvE realms may move to Magtheridon for free:
Aszune
Emerald Dream
Runetotem
Shadowsong
Silvermoon

Additional PvE realms may have the same opportunity later should we feel more Alliance players are needed on Magtheridon.

In the event that we meet our transfer goals before the scheduled end date, transfers may be disabled without prior notice. No additional characters will be eligible for these free moves once the transfers have been closed.

If you have any questions about this specific migration, please feel free to add them below.

Move a character: https://www.wow-europe.com/character/character-move.html
Free Character Migration FAQ: http://www.wow-europe.com/en/info/faq/charactermove.html

Q u o t e:
Yay! Faction balance migrations.
Good job!

Thanks!

We should probably add a quick disclaimer already now: like all other free migration, this will not be done by request, so people... don't even bother asking. ;)

Q u o t e:
good idea but it seems a lot of people won't migrate as there will still be way more horde meaning the ally who migrate will just suffer unless a lot of people leave their servers.

We have every intention of making sure the end result is an acceptable faction balance. Of course, some will need to make the first step - we can't force people onto the realm - and then others should hopefully follow. :)

Small edit to show the first comment wasn't directed at the person quoted.

Q u o t e:
The allaince would need to move in thousands to have any kind of chance.

If thousands is what it takes, thousands is what we'll aim for. ;)

Q u o t e:
If you aim to fix just turn this realm to pve since there is no way to solve it by free transfer .

We prefer to try it rather than take doomsayers' word for it that it won't help. ;)

Q u o t e:
But won't Magtheridon get overcrowded by adding more alliance players?

With how populations sometimes fluctuate it's hard to predict whether a realm may hit queues again or not, but we of course try to avoid such when opening migrations.

Naturally, if more Horde players would take the offer of moving away from Magtheridon for free, that would help to ease everybody's mind. Additional destination realms for Magtheridon Horde players might be an incentive we'd consider to achieve that.

Q u o t e:
Hello , please please please extend the time for the migration because if it ends now the few allies who migrated will get bored and move away again off the realm within month , and also please add more pve realm's to transfer to us , it always sounded a nice offer

thank you

We're extending the current ones and opening additional ones. Details will be added soon.

Added to the first post:

Update 21/01
Free migration from the original 5 realms has been extended until January 27th, and these additional realms will also have the same opportunity until that date:
Alonsus
Bronze Dragonflight
Bronzebeard
Eonar
Kul Tiras

Update 28/01
Free migration from all the below realms has been extended until February 2nd, and these additional realms will also have the same opportunity until that date:
Aerie Peak
Aggramar
Azjol-Nerub
Khadgar
Turalyon

Q u o t e:
While this Alliance-only transfer to Magtheridon is a welcome gesture, I don't think it will have much effect. The server is so crammed with jerks now that I kinda doubt that many Alliance players will be motivated to move here, regardless of how many servers are offered free migration to Mag.

Luckily we do see quite a few people moving characters, so hopefully that will encourage others to do so too - and stay active. We don't think a 1:1 ratio is realistic (but one can hope!), but every improvement is a good thing. :)

Archiving this one. We will put up a new message covering all migration and the new realm Saurfang shortly.