Well I definitely saw this thread coming. No sarcasm there.
"Terror, darkness, power? The Forsaken crave not these things; the Forsaken ARE these things."
I'm sure the implementation of Connected Realms and the fundemental changes to the way Realms are networked had nothing to do with them overcoming the hardware limitation of not being able to connect Realms.
That would be incredibly expensive for a single character. $20 for the Battle Chest, $40 for MoP (unless the price gets cut), $40 for WoD, $25 for a transfer. Even if you got the $5 Battle Chest deal and MoP's price gets cut in half, that's still $90 for a single level 90.
I just don't get it; so many people have these "Theories" about Blizzard. They are a company, their number one goal is to make a profit, if it's no longer as profitable they might be doing it for free now. If you didn't like it, then don't use it. I haven't enjoyed WoW, I don't pay for it. I will when WoD come out... it's almost like I have a choice where I spend my money or something.
Heirlooms. Items which are bound to your account (and current server).
Account Bound or Account+Server Bound... I remember the latter.
No, but I think it's ridiculous for them to consider adding things like Battle pets of all things, when there are problems that people have been asking about for two expansions. Basically, they could have put their limited resources in better places.
It must be depressing to have such an ass-backwards thought process.
"My parents finally got me that pony I wanted for Christmas... wait a second, I bet they're planning to kill me and are using the pony to distract me from their malicious intentions!! WTF!!!!"
I mean, do you honestly NOT realize how whiny and convoluted your post sounds?
I don't see your point to be honest. Why implement it at all, if transfer money was the reason behind not making it happen?
It's not really a big mystery that cross-realm mailing has everything to do with all of the cross-realm technology installed in the game. So those who in their imaginations believe that this could have been done all along are very likely mistaken. And those who believe that they put it off for revenue reasons haven't come up with a decent rationale as to why they're doing this now. If it was so profitable and Blizzard was so greedy then it follows that they wouldn't bother with it at all.
Blizzard prioritizes their projects to suit themselves and there's a concept called critical chain where X and Y have to happen before you can do Z easily. This is likely part of that and while it may be news to some of you I don't think that cross-realm mailing of BOA's/Heirlooms is something that average players think about on a daily basis. Some do but I suspect that it's not a top-of-the-list concern for most others. Therefore it's not terribly surprising that Blizzard didn't drop everything to kowtow to that particular group of people.
It's like many other forum fallacies in which people believe that making a lot of noise about something is the same thing as demonstrating wide and broad-based support for the same thing. Not that common sense makes any difference at all to people who push their own agendas to the exclusion of everything else. It clearly doesn't. The nice thing about that though is that small groups of people pushing agendas are pretty easy to discount in the general scheme of things.
"...money's most powerful ability is to allow bad people to continue doing bad things at the expense of those who don't have it."