omg characters sex changes

[Duese]

Let me go ahead and change my female toons over to male...

Let's see, I can make my pally, Rebeckah, into a male.
And then make my mage, Kaitlyne, over to a male.
Then my hunter, Mackenze, over to a male.
Can't forget my warlock, Melaney, should be a male.
Oh and my shaman, Brooklyne, just has to be male.
Last but not least my priest, Madalyne, would be exceptional as a male.

Yeah, so name changes aren't in my future for these characters so they sure as heck aren't going to be getting the sex change operation.

[d0z3rr]

Is SQL really the backend for their WoW servers?

[Multibocks]

Warning! Don't change just one of your characters sex. For example when running 5 x shaman I had one female. I hated that character, always got stuck on things the taller males would pass over and she would dismount in water due to height as well. Not to mention the idiots on the internet trying to hit on her, I should change my guild name to <I'm a DUDE, quit hitting on her>

[Ozbert]

My oh my, SQL queries are getting very expensive

They've said before, the cost association is there so people wouldn't abuse the service and change their toon everyday. Same with paid name changes and server transfers. and of course they're doing it for the money.

If they don't want people doing it too often then they'd just put a cooldown on it. This is purely a cynical money making ploy.

Yes I know they're a business out to make money, and I know no-one is compelled to use this new service, but it just galls me that they charge rip-off prices for something that's completely automated and done in an instant. It's hardly like they're strapped for income from subscriptions.

It amazes me that they sell the Blizzard authenticators for such a reasonable price, each one a tangible unique object, and then charge three times more for a couple of database queries.

Sorry for the QQ, I try to avoid doing it most of the time, but I just get annoyed by rip-offs.

[kadaan]

Is SQL really the backend for their WoW servers?

SQL is a database language, not a database. So no, SQL isn't the backend for their WoW servers.

[Bovidae]

Authenticators save Blizz money, by not spending the time to recover hacked accounts. This was an investment in their own network security, it was not for our convenience.

I will be going through gender reassignment soon.

[Talamarr]

Is SQL really the backend for their WoW servers?

If you mean MS SQL Sever, I guessing no for their game engines based on the job postings on their main site.

They may use it for their online services since they require .NET skills.