Maybe instead of being a dogwater company do something to resolve the issue?
People like to white knight Blizzard saying “you shouldn’t have gone to a full server” I’ve been on benediction since the first week of TBC. Even if I paid for a transfer just a month ago it’s Blizzard’s fault and greed that the servers are even in this state. Not only will they not upgrade any of their hardware they are the ones who sold that slot on the server knowing the limitations.
Player created issue.
Player solutions available.
Aight. Time to reroll to a dead server.
It is not a player created issue.
Blizzard is the owner and creator responsible for server design and population control. They allowed people to transfer over for $$$ knowing full well what would happen.
Sad and pathetic that you have nothing better to do than troll the forums with such idiotic takes.
Blizzard didnt force you to take out your credit card and spend $25 per character to xfer to benediction.
I highly doubt they forced you to do that.
But they didn’t do anything to try and prevent servers from dying, or the faction balance on servers from being heavily skewed.
Now this is a position I can support.
They never have in the history of the game. There have never once been faction balance tools in place, and were never expected ever.
Server consolidation is not a player issue.
Trash 2012 server backbone infrastructure is not a player issue.
Not being able to handle over 15K+ players on a single server from a multi-million dollar company, in 2022, is not a player issue.
Why is this relevant? Classic was a thing they’d never done. Same with faction vs. faction, as far as I’m aware.
And there’s huge population skewed problems on retail, they just have most content cross-server.
Server consolidation is 100% a player created issue.
All of those servers were alive in well in Classic. They all died because “omg i cant find a gruul GDKP at 2am my server sucks im xferring now!” and all the yuppies agreed and made mega servers.
You lay in the bed in which you make.
So you’re de-railing and straw-manning to GDKP issues?
You’re brining up another issue to pursue server population? If you want to debate, stay on task, child.
Again, in 2022, 15k active players is child’s play. I can re-direct you to Ultima Online, Atlantic server for example.
100% AGREE FAM, we pay a monthly sub to sit in que…Seems kinda unprofessional if you ask me.
So they should spend $25 per character just to play the game, and have to leave the server they’ve been on for at least a year? When it wasn’t this size?
Or they could take the free transfer to a dead realm, but that’s not a solution either.
I agree. Once a server is listed as full it should be locked to transfers and new characters. Don’t forget they also shut down 23 servers, so people have nowhere else to go anyway.
What about the peeps who just made toons here and peeps xfered over and scuffed up the server population?
Well, if that’s the case, let’s also limit faction selection too, to balance it out.
That’s going down a slippery slope that’s an entire different animal to tackle.
So they disabled RDF stating “social” aspect of the game. Now they’re forcing people from established guilds and server to transfer to empty realm only because they TOTALLY ruined everything with failed server merger few weeks ago. What a bizarre company…
We have been down this road before…
Here is the problem… Adding more layers will not fix the problem, its an issue that each server is only capable of a certain load before certain things like the AH, Looting, trading, etc… just start to fail even though there are enough layers to accommodate the players on the server.
With that said, there are other servers open to transfer too, you can take that option if you like OR you can wait for the type to die down over a few months and then things will normalize again,.
TLDR Blizzard screwed things up by adding Layers in the first place, Adding CRBG’s in Phase 3 of Vanilla (advertised it) and screwed up by adding paid transfers in Phase 3 vanilla rather than the end of Vanilla or at all for that matter.
Now the cat is out of the bag, the dozens of servers we had are dead and we have like 4 servers with massive populations.
TLDR2, just transfer or wait, they’re the only practical options now.
They should have locked the transfers long time ago, the damn player base warned them this would happen and still nothing.
First week players like you deserve to stay and shouldn’t have to move off. But yeah it makes them money so they don’t care ultimately.