This week has been a busy one for the MMO genre. World of Warcraft saw patch 3.0.8 release and it caused problems. What kind of problems you ask? Well, they basically shut down Lake Wintergrasp (a pvp-centric zone) and the Arenas were disabled for a short while. Mythic Entertainment, the creators of Warhammer Online, made massive layoffs this week. Actually, EA cut about 10% of its workforce within the entire company. These are tough times indeed.

Age Of Conan

An easy way to make money in an MMO is to allow server transfers for a fee. Some games decide to do this and others don’t. When Age of Conan developer Funcom announced a server merger they also talked about a one-time free character transfer to any server you’d like. Of course, there are a few restrictions such as no transfers to or from the "fresh start" servers Ironspine and Agony.

"As announced before the server merges, we are offering a free one-use character transfer option for all characters. If you wish to join a different community after the merge than the one you were allocated you are free to do so. This transfer is free of charge and can be used once per character. The service is available from your billing pages (https://register.ageofconan.com) and it will be running for one month until 21st of February.

Some additional information about the character transfer that might be important to know:

* Every character is eligible for one free transfer.
* The time it takes to get the transfer completed will depend on the load. The standard transfer will take 30 minutes. If the load is very, very heavy it might take up to 72 hours for the transfer to complete so please be patient.
==> Please also note that you must not login to any character of the same account as long as a transfer is still running. You are able to check the status of a running transfer on the account website too (https://register.ageofconan.com). The character transfer would get aborted should you login with any character during that time and you would have to start it again.
* If one, or more, servers become too popular we reserve the right to stop transfers to the servers in question at any time.
* Transfers to or from the "fresh start" servers Ironspine and Agony are not allowed.
* Transfers to all other servers will be available for all characters, regardless of rule set and language. Please be aware though that the allowed chat language is defined for each server. So no other language allowed in the public chat channels than the defined server language (for example English on Fury or German on Mitra etc.)."