Or do you lose your character after some time (I think it was like that for previous “Season”)
The season is only here temporary for some time.
Rather than “losing” you can FCM to fixed destinations when the seasonal realm ends.
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If it will be really popular by the end it can become its own era, if not then the characters will be transferred somewhere with some or no runes. What the decision will be is still unknown - it will be decided later in the lifespan of SoD.
I think you will need to move the characters yourself at the end of SoD or lose them.
And it will end, otherwise it wouldn’t be a season.
Season ended but the server lives on 
And Blizzard doesn’t like to delete player things.
The SoM was shut down on July 28th or around there.
They did for SoM, unless you moved it yourself. People complained about it.
If SoD indeed turns out to be a kind of test bed for a potential Classic + and if it turns out to be popular enough, either the existing servers will become permanent or new “Classic +” servers will come online (with character transfers).
That been said, this is only speculation. Until SoD is near the end of its life cycle and we know more, I’m inclined to believe that it will go the way of SoM.
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Well if I can lose progress because they decided it’s a season and the only way I can save my progress is to transfer somewhere where the unlocked things don’t apply, then I don’t even want to start to play.
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Irony much
I think this will be a big issue for many people including myself.
I will start SoD and that will decide my WoW playing days because I won’t go back to retail no matter the expansion and Since era is in the gdkp state it is, I don’t care for it either.
I know it’s an experiment but if they let it die/don’t care for the botting/ make me transfer losing runes etc. I will be done with the game for good.
They won’t say because it could possibly reduce player numbers but one more scummy move and I’m done not with just WoW but all Blizz games
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I hope it remains permanent or leading to servers with similar ideas. It would be sad to get extra interesting content to only lose it forever after two years.
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SoM “ended” last year, more than 6 months is enough for a free transfer. If people didn’t care about their character then people didn’t care about their character.
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You won’t lose your characters.
This season likely will last much longer than a year. Just look at Levelphases now and then of course after 60 the raids we know and in addition more stuff.
Afterwards I could see us having one permanent SoD Server since transferring to normal Era won‘t make much sense.
The sale of gold and the GDKP system will become as important on SoD as on Classic, perhaps not immediately at the first level (lvl25) but at higher levels it is an almost certainty.
Why would Blizzard act on SoD when it doesn’t do it on Classic?
Exactly what Josh said in one of his Blizzcon interviews and I love it.
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I guess because hope dies last
Stating your opinion as fact, that’s not right, unless of course you have actual proof they won’t. Because referring to SoM means they probably will if the player doesn’t decide to move them.
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He meant that there will be option to move them, however they would, most likely, be stripped of their new skills gained with runes.
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After all phases are out, Blizz will probably see when population fizzles out. And either offer a transfer to Era realms, but be stripped of any SoD gear and runes, or they will consolidate all the realms into 1 or 2. (if they add warmode probably 1, if not probably 2, 1 for PVP and 1 for PVE).
Omg Dottie please for gods sake do you even listen to the interviews at all?
There will be a place after the season ends either in a SoD like server if the demand is still high otherwise another solution.
You won‘t lose your characters after the season ends - you 100% can migrate them. If around 6months+ as in SoM is not enough for you it‘s your fault.
Still a possibility one Serve will be a new Era realm and you don‘t have to migrate. We will see…
Edit:
here from the interview.
We’re still figuring out the specifics of everything. We’re still trying to determine what the right thing to do is. There may be a version of an Era realm for Season of Discovery. At the end of the day, Seasonal content is we’re taking a lot of risks and we’re learning lessons, there is going to be some things that people really like and some things people don’t really like. We’re totally fine with that. If there is a place where the greatest aspects of this Season can live, that’s where we want our Season of Discovery players to go. There will 100% be a place where characters can migrate once the season ends. Maybe we have to take some Runes away, but maybe some Runes are so beloved that we can incorporate it into the realm they go to, we aren’t really sure yet and we are listening to the community on feedback.