Customers transferring from the US servers to the EU servers will have an EU game account created as part of the transfer process, to which they can transfer their characters - so you don't even need to purchase CoH in Europe to take advantage of character transfer.

To transfer your characters, you will need to login to PlayNC.com using your Master Account which contains any existing US characters. These characters can then be transferred to any City of Heroes (Europe) account that's part of the same Master Account.
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