Patch 3.2
August 13, 2009
Our translation service has been getting markedly less hits since patch 3.2. In preparation for allowing characters to switch between PvE and PvP servers, Blizzard removed the rule that kept players from making both Horde and Alliance characters on the same PvP server. This means that instead of using our service, players can just make a lvl1 character on the other faction and just whisper whoever they want to talk to. Our service still has its place; it’s much much faster and more convenient to use us, and players can use us while still adventuring in the world or fighting in battlegrounds. We modified our advertisement to reflect this, and to reinforce that our service is free (which people tend not to understand, often whisper things to us like “Or we could just make our own horde character for free…”).
So even though our service still has use and stills gets traffic, because of the decreased use we’re going to augment translation service with other experiments.
-Max
