Black lotus being purchasable for 20g from a vendor makes sense. Would also serve to take a ton of gold out of the economy. And if you really want to farm them specifically to sell you’re still making gold.
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You’re breaking a lot of eggs. Also smashing plates and setting fire to half the kitchen too. If the mantra of Ohshiftson and others is that Blizzard would undoubtedly screw up other adjustment changes like modifying Black Lotus spawns relative to the bigger populations, then I don’t see how just suddenly making a ton of people unable to play the game but here are some free xfers aren’t going to be equally screwed up.
If they just flip a switch and say “go xfer if you don’t like it” and leave the window open a long time, target servers could quickly get overwhelmed. If they put caps on transfers to or from a server, you risk guilds being mid-xfer and leaving folks behind, both main characters and alts.
We both know Blizzard isn’t going to reveal any sort of character or faction number so people can go “oh man, new server Warden Staff already has 8,745 Horde and only 1,123 Alliance, not going there!” but at the same time no one really wants to xfer blindly to a location where you could end up in such a situation.
Opening up the size of populations is simply not easily reversed without critically screwing over a fair number of people in ways that aren’t easily recoverable, if at all. So many things in WoW scale rather seamlessly regardless of population because of instancing, and that sort of tech (be it instancing, sharding, or phasing) seems to be Blizzard’s go-to solution to bottlenecks and unplayable segments. World Bosses didn’t exactly disappear because people thought they were lame in and of themselves, and they didn’t reappear until Blizzard improved upon the shared/individual looting/questing mechanics much much later.
I don’t think we can simply go back, and we probably won’t see changes until TBC classic at any scale worth mentioning.
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I just checked my 2 servers. Black Lotus is 56g in one AH and 46g on the other AH. That doesn’t seem unreasonable for a “rare herb”. So I’m not sure what the problem is.
That is the one and ONLY purpose of Classic – the 2005 game WITHOUT the numerous Blizzard “improvements”.
Nobody asked Blizzard to create a game similar to classic BUT modified to match modern players, modern servers, modern computers, modern population caps or anything modern. Blizzard would have probaby said “no” to that request.
Hundreds of thousands asked Blizzard to let them play the Vanilla game. Blizzard agreed to that. Blizzard is not going to break their promise because YOU want something different.
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They already have. Multiple times over.
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On my server
BL = 125-200
MS = 35
DF = 25
Very controlled by bot farmers mostly. As can be seen by AH seller being unique.
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Lotus are 40g on my server, and I can farm at certain hours of the day without competition.
Never find a lotus, but that is okay because I dont want to put in the time to do it.
So what? Add realms, enable free transfers.
That’s what they should’ve done in the first place. Actually, that is what they did in the first place. Worked fine.
They already have numerous times, sadly. They will continue to do so. I’m wondering what brilliant “fix” they’ll implement that will ruin the game for me.
Simple fix, bring back layering to original wow levels! would rather people cheese that system then to keep paying outrageous prices on flasks. This MUST BE FIXED SOON!
Vanilla also never had the issue of players taking the lotus from low pop realms, hoarding it, then xferring to a high pop server to sell for 150g+ per lotus
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Raiders constantly complain that raids are too easy. If they’re so easy, why do people need flasks? Why would it matter that black lotus is scarce?
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Only the E-peen people complain raids are too easy.
So, they can’t scale server caps back to their original format because they upped the scale of Server Caps? Maybe there’s something here that I’m not understanding…
Lotus is difficult to get, not so much in the earlier days of Classic when no one had max herb… but now it’s a real struggle. I get it, supposed to be rare… but this extremely painfully rare?
As suggested… moving a toon to a lower population server hasn’t helped so far.
They would be mass farmed regardless of the population cap of the server. Farmers/bots etc.
The population explosion was a change. I’m fully in support of more Lotus, just not how the OP suggests.
Scaling them back and returning to the “I remote desktop into WoW about 3 hours before I get home so my queue is ready when I get home” is a solution?
Please FIX Black Lotus.
There’s a guy on my server who legit has a character camped at each known Black Lotus point in every zone… brags about it all the time. 
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I just checked my realm, and they sell for 148 gold a piece. Flasks themselves sell for well over 200. It costs 15 gold per raider per raid to make sure our Tanks are covered.
What do you mean?
A bunch of people suddenly starting the game at the same time? That’s not a change to the game.
OK, so it is possible, for them to. You made it sound like they can’t do that.