You cannot xfer to a new realm for months, so for that time all the achievements should be assigned to native players.

The individual achievements for realm firsts mean almost nothing in the game (are they even anything besides feats of strength or something?).

I'm sure you could transfer a group of 80s over and try your hand at Obsidian Slayer or something.

@sephirah: The first sentence of my question was "Blizzard occasionally opens new realms where transfers are allowed right away." For example, Winterhoof opened 12 days ago and transfers were allowed right away.

Shortly after Wrath released I heard about people transferring and 'stealing' realm firsts from the 'local residents', but I didn't see that verified.

Transfers do lead to the odd situation of potentially having multiple realm-first achievements on a single realm.

If you want to pay $25 to transfer one of your characters just for a server first then go right ahead...

Blizzard says thank you.

Come on people, I said I wasn't looking to do it, nor do I (as nbcaffeine implied) think they mean much. It was just an idle "I wonder what would happen if" musing.

Gawd....

The achievement is probably just checked once, as you ding 80, so you'd have to transfer a level 79 and ding 80 on the new server. They can't continuously check for every possible achievement, right?