Another drooling horde probably still FP camping. Giggling droves of horde have to be balanced by the single crying alliance they all jump on as they land.
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I understand the sentiment, but as a player on Pagle, its fine. First of all Pagle is a big server. The biggest PVE server in the US. And its PvE which makes the pop imbalance not really all that important at all.
And Mankrik is also PvE. But in general I agree with you. Itās incredible how Pagle, Mankrik and Westfall all have massive population standings based on their namesake.
Rolling on a PvE server - Isnāt it the same as missing half of the gameplay of World of Warcraft?
Thatās the reason I rolled on RP-PvP server - when majority of people of the opposite faction are passing you and not trying to kill you (even though they can 1-shot you easy) - thatās when the true comradery of the realm is being revealed.
Whereas on PvE server you would never know - is that person from the opposite faction nice to you, because he wants to be nice? Or would he gladly take you down, but just canāt do it because of game limitations?
I like RP-PvP because it is much closer to real life, and it allows for the real social interactions to take place. Just my opinion, but Iām sure many players would agree.
This is like asking if I would miss the little remote control camera being stuck into my rear end during the invasive part of an colonoscopy.
Is it a part of the colonoscopy? Sure. Is it a part that I would miss if I could skip it? Absolutely not.
The thing is, not everyone enjoys the same parts of the game you do. Im sure theres someone out there though that enjoys that part of colonoscopies too 
I personally play MMOās to get as far away from real life for a few hours as I can. My socializing in game is centered around my guild and its alliance of guilds on our realm. āSocial interactionsā come in many forms other than āg o T o RE T a ILā after I get corpse camped by an undead rogue.
TLDR: Different strokes for different folks. Thatās why they had normal servers at launch. And thatās why they have them now.
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If blizz doesnt publish the data, NONE of it will be anywhere near accurate.
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No my guess is that people used to use that data for spurious claimsā¦ Going SEEā¦ SEE Iām right
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When I moved off PvP (to save my sanity when leveling alts) I went to Myzraelā¦ which according to what I read was a high pop PST PvE and so far Iād agree. Standing room only in major cities and the AH is booming.
Hell I made 200g in 90 mins standing in the AH last week just buying herbs and making rare pots at a 50% markup.
All I know, is the Stalagg numbers have to be incorrect. Almost all the big guilds have departed, and at most youāll see ~15-20 Alli during peak hours inside IF. Non-guild instance runs (e.g. star/scholo/UBRS) can take an hour or two just to find a group. Itās getting rough.
Well, at this moment it does show that 75% of the players on that server are Horde.
If some Alliance guilds have taken down raid bosses in the past, they are counted as raiders, and when they log in - even if they havenāt been raiding in awhile - it still gonna count them in the statistics as raiders.
Still, if someone is choosing the server right this very moment, I am sure that once they see 75% imbalance in Horde favor, they not gonna roll there. And thatās the whole point of the database - see which realms are relatively balanced, and which ones are not.
What makes you say so? It reflects accurately the raiding population, therefore you can still find out what is the balance on your server between the Horde and the Alliance, and you can still see what server is most-populated, and which ones are less populated. What else you need? Precise information on every first level character? That will not say anything useful.
According to a dev in a 2016 public interview, less than half the playerbase raids. He was talking about retail, but I assume the same is true in Classic. Less than half of all players are raiders.
Stalagg is dying , I started a post hoping Blizz would see it ( although it will fall on Deaf ears)
Stalagg becoming US version of Flamelash - #5 by Zilzikt-barthilas
Today I know 3 more guilds were transferring , and possibly more .
Itās bad for the game to allow a server to die- because if one falls more are to follow.
Why do people wanna know the population before choosing a server?
First - to know the Horde / Alliance balance.
Second - to know the population of the server RELEVANT to other servers.
It doesnāt really matter if it is a 1000 or 2000 people playing - what matters, is how it looks relatively to other realms.
Flamelash has officially died just now.
The statistics are not being shown anymore, because they are not enough players to be in the statistics.
So itās not even a Horde-only server. It is a dead server. Stalagg is following the same path, it seems.
#Nochanges has no concerns with things outside of the game.
We donāt care about what monitor you use, what browser you use, what website you use to look up a quest, etc. We only care about the game, and not changing it.
Telling players how many people are on each realm, what faction they are, etc, does not change the game.
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Kinda. They donāt want to show how many players are playing Classic. Then the āgame journosā can write their hit pieces on how popular their old game is vs their new one.
Theyāre in a pickle right now, because their attitude was that gamers really didnāt want Classic, when in reality even NEW people are playing this 15-year-old game and having a great time. It isnāt just a bunch of us graybeards playing on a few servers.
I bet they have no friggin idea what to do right now. Everything they thought they knew about their playerbase is wrong.
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get off the pipe man. blizzard wants its games to be popular.
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I can tell you from experience having played on Pagle since day 1 those faction balance numbers are completely accurate.
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Im down with cross server but not every server. During tbc we had a few different servers we played with and it was chill because you saw a lot of the same people and only had a 3min wait. Now itās instant but every AV I join is 15 ally vs a 40 horde premade. Itās just churning out lobbies and itās a joke. Clearly way more horde are down to PvP, and since every server is included, thereās a huge imbalance.
I believe it was called battlegroups which Iām way more fond of than entirely cross server bgās or even not cross server at all. There is a middle ground here.