Please Blizz, consider a merge or mandatory transfers. There are less than 100 players online right now. People in my guild are quitting in droves because we can’t find enough players to form a raid group and no one can farm pre-BiS because groups are non-existent. A population this low makes the game unplayable.
The first few weeks seemed okay but as players reached near cap and found themselves unable to progress the population has plummeted as people quit or re-rolled… Couldn’t even find DM groups yesterday. Insane to have a pop so low you can’t run brand new content the day of release.
The factions are also woefully imbalanced as naturally carebear Alliance players were more likely to transfer because they couldn’t deal with queues. From my spying in Alliance cities on my rogue I’d estimate the population split is something like 70/30 in favor of Alliance, and Alliance are also far more progressed because they can actually form groups.
Bliz - “Hey, we know the initial few week hype will blow up population and it will die down. We dont want a bunch of dead realms so we are opening a smaller amount and using layering”
Day 1 players - “NEED MOAR SERVERS!!! CLASSIC BEST GAME EVER AND WILL HAVE 25 MILLION SUBS”
Week 6 player - “Blizz, please address how our new server is dead”
I think it’s about time they introduced paid character transfers for Classic.
Blizz, don’t you like making money? Of course you do, that’s basically the sole purpose of your existence. So why not add this feature and make a lot of it?
You know, even when paid transfers were launched, only realms that were at least 6 months old were eligible. We aren’t even halfway there. Cool your jets.
He’s right though, the game isn’t nearly as good as some of you make it out to be. End game is nonexistant and there is no challenge beating content many of us beat years ago. Especially when every detail of every encounter is documented in detail.
More like the majority of the troll threads being made in the Classic forums are by people who do so on a retail avatar. Seen it dozens of times and quite frankly, it’s getting to be very annoying. Nobody is going to take what the OP has to say seriously if all they do is bash on Classic using a retail avatar.
Just talking about what I’ve seen in OTHER threads…not this one specifically
Well, if we’re being honest, they trickled out the new realms. It’s not like they all popped at once and are now dead. No, some of them were doomed from the start, as others were already quite established from name day on (before the game even launched) and will probably die slow deaths.
I’d also add that it may be that the population isn’t dead there but isn’t ready for endgame yet. The majority of players have yet to hit max level.
This is believable. The problem seems to be especially bad horde side as I touched on in my post. Recent census data shows a tremendous faction imbalance and I can often count the number of players on the entire horde faction with a handful of /who commands. I was outside Dire Maul for two hours and saw countless alliance groups running in and out and not a single horde group… At peak hours.
