Fifty Character Limit

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I play more than 10 characters, in fact I play more than 20 or 30 characters. Just because it’s different from what you do doesn’t mean is not a legitimate way of playing.

Why would anyone run the same instances over and over again, I get bored of dungeons by the time I’m geared for heroics. Does that mean M+ makes no sense? No, it’s just a different way of playing, that is not for me.

Why put arbitrary restrictions on how many characters are a good enough number to have? The minimum for me is one blood elf of every class and then a hunter of every race. Then there are a few characters I levelled over the years. My first ever character was a human priest that i then race changed to draenei. Should I delete my very first toon because she doesn’t fit the way I play the game now. The first monk I ever played was an Alliance pandaren. Also don’t want to delete her, and so on.

I get attached to my characters I don’t want to see them disappear. Even the ones that I don’t play right now. I see no harm in increasing the number of characters, specially since they keep increasing the number of races and classes we have.

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Off topic but i laugh my a** off everytime i see your picture :rofl: It’s just so fitting!

As to the 50 Char limit, i have no idea how a normal human can manage 50 characters but i don’t see why they shouldn’t increase the cap

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I’ve been on this forum for the last hour bc i can’t sleep and you have been negative in literally every single thread i’ve seen you in, why can’t you just let others do their thing ? Who cares why they do what they do as long as they aren’t bothering anyone ?

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Do you even read what you’re about to post ? Let’s give you the benefit of the doubt and say you aren’t intending to be rude, it’s the internet and just the way you write makes it seem like you’re being rude for no reason.

As for the threads, just look at your last comments and you have your answer

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I agree, 50 chars is not enough for a 20 year old game.
Need at least 75.

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Having a different opinion is fine and i believe you don’t have bad intentions but your replies do come along as rude. I personally wouldn’t be offended but i’m just saying there’s better ways to formulate what you said :stuck_out_tongue: Especially since it’s Christmas :santa:

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I have characters across many realms and when you make 5-6 on each realm it adds up over a few years. I use them as storage characters when I leave a realm so they become dormant, they are usually a highish level so I don’t want to delete them.

Most low level characters get deleted and their items sent to the higher level ones, you never know when you could go back to them or when the items may become valuable. Take now for instance, Small eggs are huge sellers.

I don’t see why increasing the total is bad. It doesn’t affect anyone else.

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@Moritz: Thank you for qualifying me as not human, I guess? :confused:

@Violetta: I play in three different support languages (though focused on English and German) and having been around over 10 years pretty much uninterrupted, characters have cropped up, so to speak… I have friends who basically can not have a conversation in English, their talents lie in areas other than foreign languages. Not to mention I knew within the first few hours of play that I wanted alts. Trelw is in fact character number seven and for a long, long time was my highest level character… but that has not been true for a couple of years now. I know you directed your age question to Korrina… but if it is of any relevance to the matter of alts… I will be 45 in about 4 months.

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The dungeons were an example, mostly because M+ is so popular. I do dungeons to level, but my alts are spread through all the levels, highest is 103, lowest 15, so instead of a handful of dungeons at max level I get to choose from all the level brackets. I also use archaeology, pet battles, questing, BGs and gathering to level the alts.

One hunter of every race is 20 characters, a blood elf of every class is another 10, a druid and a shaman, of course. Then there’s the fact that I started as Alliance and changed to Horde. Since I’ve been an altoholic from the beginning I already had several alts on the Alliance. So i have a priest, a shaman, a monk and a warlock that I would never delete on the Alliance side. I might delete some other alts to make room for more, since my total number is actually 47, not 30 :grimacing: (and that is with a lot of alts deleted already). Not all characters are equally important, but by now I have around 40 I wouldn’t want to delete, no matter what.

I think this is the main difference between you and me. For me every characters is different. They are a character, they have their own personality, their own story, they have unique ground mounts, and (if possible, I’m not a mount person) their own flying mounts. Also their own unique pets. So for me, with my night elf characters for example, my hunter would never use my druid’s hippogryph, and vice versa. Each one has their own and it’s unique to them.

Also, playing characters with different personalities feels different for me. For example, a have a female blood elf priestess that is a tomboy and a female warlock that is fancy. If I want to create a fancy mog I use the warlock, it would be jarring for me to use the priestess. It wouldn’t be her. (I guess this is why I belong on a RP server :grin:)

I’m 35, I’m curious why you would ask.

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I reached 50 characters 1 year ago. Lucky for me, I had a handfull I could delete, otherwise no allied races for me!

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Character data really?

Have you ever read a text file? Because that’s how data is stored, as just numbers pointing to what face choice, what armour and weapons you have, achievements… etc. All the stuff that actually uses up disk space are stored on the client.

The kind of storage space on those servers will easily hold trillions of characters. Even with 100 million accounts over the fourteen years, that ain’t anything like close.

No, the most probably reason is they don’t want to use up resources on rewriting the code for the sake of a minority. Again, that is an argument, but the point is like I said they do and have made changes and put work in for a very very small number of players. Like I said the 100 Exalted reputation rewards and all the work they put into world-first raiders who number in the hundreds.

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Me and a friend have this thing where we have 1 char pr. spec. E.g. I have a holy priest, and a disc/shadow priest. She has one shadow, one holy and one disc… I also have one elemental shaman, and one enhancement shaman. And I have multiple druids. I can’t play this one as feral. It doesn’t feel right :joy:

I reached 50 characters a year ago. Realized when I was gonna create my first Void Elf, and didn’t have space. Luckily for me I’ve got a few slots spare. I went to delete some, e.g. had two characters that I created for my 15 year old son to fool around on when he was 3 years old, haha. But yeah, I like the “RP personality” of my characters even though I don’t RP. Like this druid being a true restoration/balance druid, but doesn’t feel right as guradian/feral, so needed another druid to main role those specs, and so on.

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It doesn’t matter how many characters data could be stored. What matters is the cost increase. You could argue that storage cost is low, but unlike development costs, it scales with the amount of characters, so it’s quite possible that it’s big enough. And increasing the cost while keeping price the same is something no serious busyness would do.

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I also like to have not only one of each race and sex, one of each race of Druid, shaman and paladin (because they all have unique models, totems, mounts) but also at least one of each spec. It actually creates something of a headache working around the fifty limit with these factors in mind.

With KulTirans and Zandalari both having Druid, Shamans and Zandalari having Paladins, that means I need more space than just the four.

Already I can’t have a Troll or Dark Iron Shaman, a Tauren Druid or Draenei Paladin.

To me it just seems like I’m getting my full money’s worth out the game as well by having all the unique types. Though it’s not so bad with normal Draenei Paladins as they don’t have a unique mount, and normal Tauren Druids really aren’t all that different to Highmountain Druids. It still annoys me a bit though.

I’m sure there are people reading this thinking “Why?”. As if somehow that argument is valid when no one for a second asks about pet, mount, transmogs or anything else like that.

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blizzard could simply introduce a system where if you reach 50x lvl 120 characters your account unlocked for 50 more slots. probably the greatest boost income for them if someone really wants it fast (or a free gift if someone is really dedicated). case solved…

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I could happily make and play 50 characters but I couldn’t come up with names for that many, I have 7 at the moment and 2 are Nefaryas’ of some variation and 2 sapphire variations - I’m not that inventive lol

However in saying that, I see no issue with people want 50+ characters and can’t see why blizzard don’t up the limit, especially considering you can now have 18 per realm, except that they make money from people having multiple accounts.

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I simply use real names for my characters. I try to choose names that would not sound that common (as much as I can with my limited knowledge :blush:). Except for humans, in their case I like to have the most banal names possible :grin:

If you like names that are related to gems there’s a website, meaning of names, that lets you search names by meaning. Behind the name is also a good website, it was the first one I used.

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It’s not so much liking names linked to gems as sapphire is my daughter’s birth stone, I also have an Emeralda for my son’s birth stone cus I’m a soppy mumma like that lol

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They do.

I have an armored elekk with golden and dark purple pink details, on my ordinary Draenei Paladin, and I have had it for years(added it Cataclysm)

Sorry if I increased your headache now :joy:

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What I meant by that, as in ‘normal Draenei’, is they don’t have a unique mount to the Lightforged Paladin. Otherwise I wouldv’e just said Draenei.