Server list shows population
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If you select a server that is full it tells you that it may result in a wait to play and suggest you choose another realm.
Maybe I should specify. Blizzard should release REAL TIME updates and SPECIFICS of exactly how many players play and where if they are going to blame this on us. If it’s on us then educate us properly and maybe players would know where to go. The realms I have on my free xfer says they are full yet the third party sites tell me they have less than 500 players on them? So I’m supposed to pick which is the best one when they claim servers are “full” that have less than a thousand players?
You sound insane honestly. If we are gonna blame the players for this then release DETAILED information on the servers. Then when this happens you can say “hey we gave you all the information needed to make a decision”. Until then be prepared to watch people like me piss and moan on the forums all day
I think you are half right, I can only speak for the server I am from though. What I saw was alot of guilds struggling in P2 content and losing players left and right. A ton of people quit the game during P2 in TBC, again atleast on my old server, Earthfury. Then then 3 top guilds went to Lina to be able to recruit and stay competitive, and then when people saw them dip, others followed, and swiftly at that. So yes you are right on it can be traced back to people leaving small servers to join the big ones. But what started it was not people just leaving, it was the lack of resources available on said server. Back in the day I was on Suramar and the same thing happened, and I wanna say in Cata? They merged Draka into us as they did for teh majority of servers and it completely fixed the problem. Hell EQ did it over 20 years ago with the same situation. There are plenty of examples for them to pull from to fix this, they just dont to continue raking in xfer money while you buy the $80 boost trash. Regardless of whose orginal fault it is we pay them monthly to give us a playable product and they refuse to do anything about it. And if youre response is “they gave you free transfers” please read up.
Most of the problem came about because players couldn’t find dungeon groups. When my guild left to go to a mega server it was all about dungeons which are really important in BC with attunements and rep grinds. We liked our guild, we liked the server but we just couldn’t find groups.
The rest of the problem came from blizzard’s mismanagement of the servers. No one wanted to pay to transfer to a medium pop sever because we were afraid we’d end up on another dying server and have to pay to transfer again. The safest choice was the mega server.
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Dont use ironforge during the leveling rush it wont give accurate data.
Population is not the only reason for the queues it is a factor but the current queue avoidance methods are also actually generating a queue, if someone logs in at 9am (no queue) but doesnt play till 7pm thats 10hrs they have locked down a slot on the server.
1 person doing it isnt usually a problem (14999 and 15000 are virtually indistinguishable) but if thousands do it your server capacity drops from 15k to a much lower number.
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ya with bene when i get in, i pretty much don’t log out for over 12 hours.
I think this is a good argument for connected realms tbh. Blizzard has done a horrendous job of server maintenance and they blame their own player base for their own failings which has divided the sh*t out of us. Sucks to see.
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That’s exactly why I’m calling for my solution to all this is this:. Blizzard owes us a real time updates website with specific server information including population so we do not have to make uninformed decisions here. I know the websites I use will be off because it’s 3rd party. Something blizzard could EASILY fix but they won’t because it will reveal how many actual subs they have
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Most of the problem came about because players couldn’t find dungeon groups
This. I don’t know any players who wanted to transfer to these mega servers, but the other servers were basically dead and so there was basically no choice if you wanted to play or level alts. I hate that we had to transfer the entire guild and our alts because the server we were on had basically nobody online. Most of us decided to be on a lower/medium pop server to start classic because we didn’t want overcrowding or queue risk. But mismanagement forced our hand, either play on a server no one is playing on , or sit in a queue for 9 hours. Anyone that blames the players for these situations doesn’t had a damn clue what they are talking about.
We Didn’t want to be on these servers, but we were forced to transfer or play on a dead server
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THIS. Extremely well put. None of us wanted to come to Lina, but it was that or die.
Well said, all blizzard care is money.
In my opinion, if they give a plus free Xfer to people who transfer out of mega realms, the queue problem would vanish.
I am sorry you were unable to understand, but not surprised you couldn’t. Low iq people, like yourself, have that problem. Set up a gofund me acct so you can afford a tutor. I will contribute. Knowledge is power. No wonder you are a weak beta
Real time updates still wont tell you details about those people,
Say we have 2 servers both with 8k players online, both look ok to transfer to, but what if I told you on one of those servers there are 6k die hard classic fans and on the other we have 6k people waiting for DF and both have 1500 who will leave once the pop drops below 5k
Today both servers are alive and well, in 6 weeks one of them is 500 players and there is no way to identify that until the real time numbers start dropping which triggers those 1500 to jump back to another server.
Love this post. Blizzard has set the bar so low for our expectations over the years. If they were doing their jobs, they would have come up with a solid solution for realm pops being too high or low by now. They don’t seem to think outside the box like they used to.
And for all you mega server haters - People play on them because they won’t die, are more stable, and are an overall better experience. Stop attacking people for wanting to play on them. If I was blizz, I would have spent less time blaming the players and more time coming up with reasonable solutions to enable the above listed experience be more widespread. Their server mismanagement has caused these queue problems. Stop attacking players for this.
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I do see what you are saying. But I’m saying it would be alot better of a solution than they have given us so far honestly
Did you see the threads on here when pagle numbers dropped 500 per day for a week? It was all pagle wont last till wrath and a huge group of people left for Benediction.
Data is great if people can be trusted to use it responsibly but most people do not have a huge understanding of data science and so will quickly doom and gloom on any medium pop server that has a guild transfer for greener pastures.
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And this right here is why they DONT release it. Look around. I wouldnt trust a single poster here with the measurements for a doorframe, let alone server numbers.
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Preach brother!
SOOOOO freaking true, these people are liars, theifs and pompous self-righteous scumbags for blaming us for their failures. The lack of skill and dedication from the people working on this game is baffling considering they are working on a product that WAS ALREADY MADE. The fact that they have not received any legal action taken against them is crazy. They have been failing to provide the service that they charge for continuously. They have made changes that are insignificant and LITERALLY go against anyone with common sense concerning biology. They should have been charged with false advertisement SO MANY TIMES. Its disgusting to think I praises this company so many years ago. If I didnt love classic I wouldn’t even play. I’m done after wotlk. OH also MW2 sucks you d9nt even have hardcore mode in the game. Diablo immortal is the filth of the gaming world. The monetization of Diablo 4 is looking like something that makes me want to puke. This company is just an absolute gutter and it shouldn’t be allowed to exist anymore.
LOL. Holy moly I hope you are a troll for your sake. Yikes…