A dying server

Is there any plan of merging lower population servers together? My realm has been a lower population realm for a while and we just had 4 guilds, on horde alone, transfer off the server. At this point the server is so dead that raiding guilds are having trouble recruiting new people because there is simply no one to recruit. Theres no one to level with, dungeon with, etc. At this rate we will be forced to move off the server within a few weeks, which will only make the population even worse.

It would be great to get a blue post with any information on the subject.

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One would think the Devs would constantly be updating us on server options as a means to keep communities alive.

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Ha. Wow devs. Doing things. You’re funny.

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Well, with such a low population harvesting mats should be easy. I would be gathering all the black lotus and crystals possible before leaving.

Then become the monopoly man on your new server. Opportunity is a knocking, are you gonna open the door?

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Remember the days when every server was full and people were complaining about queues?

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I mean I was on whitemane and I transferred off. When we came to this server it was dead but slowly got more populated and was was still a low/medium population server and I enjoyed the small community that formed, but now the server is so dead you just cant do anything. Id rather wait in a queue and have people to play with

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You wrecked your server and want blizz to fix it?

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Sounds like it. Free stuff for everyone. Custom made servers for everyone.

Dying server means it’s still alive yes?
BTW which server is in question?

They opened transfers and the server I am currently on filled up nicely. It has been good for the duration that classic has been out, but over time people quit or transfer off and over time it has just dwindled down. I’m just trying to find out if I need to transfer or if blizzard has intentions of merging the lower population servers

My server is Arcanite reaper

Would it help if the existing raiding guilds merged?

What server is this?

It would, and some have done that, but most have left the server already. There is really only 4 main guilds left and most are full or are very close to full. But there are no new people to recruit.

Maybe one guild could disband and fill in the missing spots for the other three guilds?

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right? That’s why we stayed on the queued realms. because we knew this will happen.

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The issue with that is if it left theres only enough room for probably 10 people amongst the guilds. That would put a lot of people out of a guild. 4 guilds left the server already because there is no one to recruit

Maybe you could advertise on the guild forums?

This is it right here.

Even on larger (but not the mega realms) most guilds raid with sub 40 people from what I’ve been told in discussing it.

Recruitment will always be an ongoing issue.

On ‘dead’ realms, forget it. Transfer off.

And I am fine with transferring but when you have people in the guild with multiple 60s its going to cost some people 50…75… some even 100$. It would be nice if they combined some servers sooner than later because they will have to do it anyway. Once our guild leaves it will be even harder for people to find groups and raid.