I think I understand the limitations of the free version. I’m not so clear on what’s possible with the paid one.
So for example if I decide to take the free trip to Classic Era and then at a later date decide I want to copy that character to BC can I do that?
Alternatively if I decide to stay and finish Nax but don’t go through the portal and then pay to copy to Classic Era is that possible?
I guess if I ding 61, or take the portal I have made myself incompatible with Classic era. I would even assume once you gain any xp at 60 that might also break things. But I guess you could disable XP gains to stay 60.
Oh, in that case, as far as I understand it, the short answer is that you can’t move characters from classic to TBC nor from TBC to classic, regardless of it being a paid clone or a free one.
Any game progress you make on the Burning Crusade Classic Progression realm after pre-patch will not translate to Classic Era
which implies you can transfer after the prepatch. But also probably means the loot I want thats in Nax probably wont come to Classic Era with me if I dont get it before prepatch.
This bit later on possibly answers my question:
It is not possible to transfer a character (either a clone or a newly created character) between a Progression realm and a Classic Era realm
So I guess that means no you cant ‘finish up’ in Classic Era and then go TBC later on
i think what happens is that they take a snapshot of your character, and if you decide to progress to TBC, gain a few levels and then go “hmm i’d actually like to play vanilla instead” the character copy will use that previous snapshot of your character to restore it, should you choose to pay for the cloning to classic, and vice versa.
any progress you make if you choose to remain in classic and later want to switch to TBC will be undone when you copy your character to TBC realms, as the copy will be that of the snapshot.
lets say you got a character who has dark edge of insanity when the snapshot happens, you later then get a might of menethil, when you decide to copy your character to TBC you won’t have might of menethil, and instead see your dark edge of insanity along with all other gear you had previously when the snapshot happened.
at least that’s how i understand it. don’t take my word for it though.
Yeah Blizzard using downright wrong terms apparently, they call it “clone” instead of “unlock”… because that’s what actually happens, by looking at the announcements. When prepatch hits, a realm-wide snapshot of all characters takes place, then you can choose where to UNLOCK your character, on the TBC realm - which means you’d have to PAY THEM MONEY (lol) to UNLOCK your snapshotted character on the Classic Era realm, OR you UNLOCK your snapshotted character on the Classic Era realm, and if you choose to go TBC at a later date you can’t do it with your progressed Classic Era character, you’re FORCED to PAY MONEY to UNLOCK your previously snapshotted (on the prepatch day) character, and ALSO PAY MONEY to boost it to level 58 if you don’t want to pick it up from whatever level (and gear) it was (and held) by that time.
That’s pretty much what I wrote. I wanted to stress how there’s no such thing as character “clone”, you choose where to unlock it and then you have to pay if you also want to unlock it on the other realm.
And the main point I’m trying to make is your progress on Classic Era can never make it onto the TBC realm, because on prepatch day they pretty much become altogether separate character. You said yes to Bailey that he can eventually copy his character over to TBC, and that is wrong. There is no copying whatsoever.
I always read my posts twice when posting, and again after they’re posted. You do the same and read my post again. I even capitalized conjunctions, I mean.
You wrote hundreds of words when 10 will have been better.
I should have expanded saying, yes and no. You can copy but your progress on Classsic-Era will not be carried over, which is what I assumed the OP wanted.
We don’t know exactly how it works in the background.
It’s not about how many words you use, it’s about using them right to make the concept clear to whomever is reading. The term “copy” is misleading at best - in fact, it’s downright wrong - because a copy is such when it’s identhical to the original. This is not the case.
If you’re a level 50 on prepatch day, and you choose to stay on Classic Era to, say, clear Naxx, then once you’re done two months later and want to go to Outland, you’ll have to UNLOCK (and pay money to do so) your level 50 character which was snapshotted on prepatch day. That’s NOT a copy, by all means.
Actually it is about the amount of words, why say something in 100+ when about 15 say it clearer. Most people would get confused with your lengthy explanation.
We don’t know how it is working in the background in detail, unlock or copy from another source. We don’t even know if it’s just a reserved name.
Can you link where Blizzard say how it works, in detail in the background, or are you assuming your way is how it works?
Well, let’s see if the one whom my reply was addressed to understands it. The fact it was unclear to you doesn’t imply “most people” will find it unclear as well. Was it lengthy because I bothered myself giving examples of both scenarios?
“1. If you decide you’d like to play your character in both game types, you’ll be able to use an optional paid service to gain access to the cloned character in both game types.”
From the link you yourself provided. When they write “the cloned character” they’re talking about the only clone they ever referred to, i.e. the one created on prepatch day.
How I see it is the character is moved to a backup server not a game server and cloned, which is another word for copied btw, to either TBCC, Classic-Era or both when you decide.
Those are inner workings we’re not concerned about though. We players don’t mind HOW something is technically done, we only care IF an option will be there for us at all.
That’s the whole point. As far as we know, cloning isn’t something we decide right now, it’s something THEY do, and have planned to do on prepatch day. So when they write “the cloned character” the only safe assumption is that they’re talking about the only clone we are aware of, i.e. the only one they ever mentioned. Nowhere did they mention that we’ll be able to clone our character(s) whenever we wish (although I certainly hope so, as I am too looking to only roll on TBC at a later time with the toon I will keep playing on Classic Era)
I was sure they did and they said it would be the snapshot version. I feel they are using the transfer server code to do this “cloning”, which is why it’s being suspended.
