Blizzard should poll its player base, but here’s what I think. With the release of all of these new servers, Season of Discovery, bad and unrewarding retail versions that are unsatisfying (I logged into retail recently and the game felt completely dead and impersonal), they should condense a lot of the servers, PARTICULARLY in SOD and HARDCORE, where there are no matchmaking tools because we don’t want them, they also make the game feel dead and unrewarding. I know Blizz probably doesn’t care, but did the game stop being fun? No. They destroyed their own network effects over the last decade with poor decision making and greed, that’s just my opinion. It feels bad logging into ANY of the Hardcore servers, many of which die when popular streamers move onto other servers/versions, and soon enough, new games, because the worlds feel dead and there is not much point in calling it an MMO anymore. Squish all the HC servers and Sod servers into 2-4, nobody will care, they will thank you. Or don’t. Keep losing subscribers and pouring resources into things people enjoyed (like SOD, for a few months) and then letting it die. Look at recent wow Youtubers basically saying they are done. Hardcore was the best thing to happen to the game in a long time, but we don’t need a bunch of dead servers with no networking effects. I renewed my sub to see the state of retail, mop, and hardcore, and they all feel dead. That people are even compelled to try private servers over a “small indie company” is shameful. Black Ops 7? hahahahah this company is going to go bankrupt, even if just morally, because they make terrible decisions that even a monkey would object to. The game isn’t fun. I guarantee you just squishing down some servers and limiting the unnecessary number of game versions / servers (particularly classic which has no want or need for a matchmaking queue). Do it. Announce it. Maybe some people come back. Sitting in a dead Capitol City in nearly every version feels bad. Maybe the game was just doomed once they added pandas. Been downhill ever since. Dungeons and Goblins and… pandas. Game is terrible because the company itself destroyed their most valuable asset, it’s network effect, for a quick buck. The only reason most servers say “low population” is because they didn’t program in “dead server”. If you know of an HC server that isn’t completely dead let me know.