Look, I get it, we all knew the risk for jumping off a more populated server for a lower pop to avoid queues or faction instability 10 months ago.
But, Anathema and Arcanite Reaper need some help. I’m pretty positive most of us that took that chance with some hope of a healthy population, At least I did, Hell more so for the people who actually rolled on here fresh from the start when Blizzard was throwing out servers for every man and his dog and lets be real some of us had to take that chance or those queues would be even longer.
We need a Merge or something, Anything really, and i know people say Blizz will never do it but they also said Classic wouldn’t be a thing, and here we are and if enough people complain it might just happen.
The AQ gates still aren’t open and a long way off, Finding groups is extremely long and difficult so no reason for new players to play here, The AH is depleted, Its hard for guilds recruiting to raid, Ironforge on a Friday night is dead.
Accoring to Ironforge Pro Anathema has 943 Active raiders/players (510A 433H), and Arcanite Reaper has 475 Active raiders/players (387A 88H)
We’re both on West coast time as well as the only 2 low pops on the West Coast list. We need a boost, We don’t want to be a massive server we just need something to happen, there’s still at least a year worth of Classic game play left and the situation is only getting worse.
And no, Some of us don’t want to Transfer, A lot of us have established good friendships.
B-b-b-b-but the Arugal players should just transfer off onto a dead realm and populate it! It’s a tried and proven Vanilla “solution” to a Vanilla problem!!!11
This is the reason transferring to a low populated realm to avoid queues obviously does not work. Where’s the role player Rostata here to explain this one?
Transferring to dead realms – such as yours – is what smooth brains are recommending people on full servers to do.
I’m highlighting with my post the reason why people will not do this, and that it’s silly to expect people to transfer to dead realms without the gates even being open.
Anathema resident since free xfers from Whitemane were offered.
Server population is the most important thing to server “success”, both size and quality. Right now Anathema needs a population boost, and I agree that merging with another small, west coast server would be ideal.
The problem is, blizzard won’t please everyone with a merger of servers. Secondly, they make money from the transfers. They have very little incentive to merge them. I doubt this post will get a blue reply, because they just don’t need to do anything.
As much as I’d like to whine about Arugal, OP has a concern and should not be hijacked by Arugal concerns.
If transferring is out of the question wish there was a way to get a response from a blue about server merging for ya.
It doesn’t work because people don’t want to be a part of the solution.
The fact that 3000 people who wait in a queue everyday for hours, complaining about how they can’t play the game, would all refuse a free transfer to a low pop realm on the premise it would be dead is ironic.
Of course it was a bad idea when Blizzard just bends over and layers the high population servers, gutting any reason to move away from the mega servers.
Why move when you can play on a massive server and you know Blizzard will just layer it so you get no downsides?
Arugal players could transfer to yojamba a really healthy alternative. That said it would prolly end up being a queue on each server then, but hey atleast they are shorter.
Doing nothing will result in the certain death of some servers. Guilds can not sustain raids in such low pops and will xfer off or quit. This will continue to repeat itself until the server is dead.
A merge would be awesome and would bring us to a healthy population I think. We had a handful of guilds transfer off last week, so our population on AR is lower than that
I am leveling a horde toon on arcanite reaper now. It is beyond dead, not a single soul chatting in trade or lookingforgroup. No dungeons being ran, not a single piece of linen or silk cloth on the AH and yet there are a small amount of people that play here and pay their sub to play here. The quality of life for people on arcanite reaper is very low.
I can’t see a single reason not to open free transfer from full pop realms to this Arcanite reaper and other struggling realms.