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Well, it seems all kinds of barriers are being broken in Shadowlads, as the 50 characters per account limit has been breached! Emjay poked us about it on twitter and shared his pretty interesting characters screen:

Update 2: We asked about the potential visual bug, and Emjay replied he is quite sure they are al there, and also provided a detailed explanation as to how this might have happened:

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Hi, I am that player that posted this on Twitter. I think I can explain how it happened and I can 100% confirm that it is NOT a visual bug.

At the start of SL, there were a lot of weird issues like that black screen at login etc. At this time I had decided to move realms from where I had played BFA (Khadgar / Bloodhoof) to Darkspear as it was more populated. 

I was likely sitting at about 48 characters at this point with a few on other realms too that I no longer played.

One day I had a weird login bug where all my characters vanished from the Realm Selection screen. It was empty. I had to physically go to the realms for the characters on that realm to be visible. I went to my main realms (Khadgar / Bloodhoof) and then as I was switching to Darkspear, I went there too. I did NOT log on to Arathor or Tarren Mill or Emerald Dream for quite some time and those realms continued to never show on my Realm Selection screen. 

I did however over time create new alts on what I now consider my new home realm of Darkspear.

I believe that the game allowed me to go over 50 characters as somehow the bug that prevented 3 realms from showing on my realm selection screen didn't count the characters on those realms towards my total allowed.


Update 1: It seems a similar thing happened to other players, but for them seemed to just be a visual bug, showing more characters than are on the realm, as it could be counting deleted character as well, as these two players point out:

Whether this is the first time this has happened or if many more players might have more than the allowed 50 is unclear, but it's possible this is a more common occurrence. Either way, this is the first time we've seen it reported, so it's a cool new WoW fact!

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Hi, I am that player that posted this on Twitter. I think I can explain how it happened and I can 100% confirm that it is NOT a visual bug.

At the start of SL, there were a lot of weird issues like that black screen at login etc. At this time I had decided to move realms from where I had played BFA (Khadgar / Bloodhoof) to Darkspear as it was more populated. 

I was likely sitting at about 48 characters at this point with a few on other realms too that I no longer played.

One day I had a weird login bug where all my characters vanished from the Realm Selection screen. It was empty. I had to physically go to the realms for the characters on that realm to be visible. I went to my main realms (Khadgar / Bloodhoof) and then as I was switching to Darkspear, I went there too. I did NOT log on to Arathor or Tarren Mill or Emerald Dream for quite some time and those realms continued to never show on my Realm Selection screen. 

I did however over time create new alts on what I now consider my new home realm of Darkspear.

I believe that the game allowed me to go over 50 characters as somehow the bug that prevented 3 realms from showing on my realm selection screen didn't count the characters on those realms towards my total allowed.

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I had more than 50 characters on my account. I only noticed because on being prevented from creating a new one for being over quota, I deleted an old character, but was still over the quota. I ended up having to delete four or five more before I was under it.

My thought at the time was that maybe the 50 character limit didn't always exist and I climbed over it in earlier times or when it was a higher limit. 

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Hahaha! I have had over 50 characters on my account for over 6 months. I have 60 characters on 1 account across 8 realms.

I have a second account and I transferred 10 from that account to my main account.

Now Blizzard will NOT allow me to transfer any of these characters back to the old account.

I have no idea why we need a limit or why we can't simply combine 2 accounts.

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