Given that of the 22 servers being closed, only Felstriker is Oceanic, that leaves 21 server’s accounts to spread between 3 US PVP servers.
Earthfury
I’m totally surprised this isn’t in the list to close. Significantly less players than Old Blanchy, the next worst server, and ridiculously less active than Sulfuras, the next worst PVP server. Yet it’s a target for all these dead servers.
Grobbulus
A huge server that is already overpopulated, but evenly balanced between Horde and Alliance. Does Blizzard not think that forcibly moving more characters here will present a problem? Also, it’s the only US West PVP server, so unless people are happy with higher pings, all the west server accounts are going to shift here.
Sulfuras
A Horde Only PVP server, and given Earthfury, the ‘only’ US-East server.
Unless Blizzard adds more transfer targets now, not “in coming weeks”, this is going to destroy multiple player experiences, both on the existing servers and for those hoping to leave their old server to somewhere better.
Blizzard needs to:
Remove Grobbulus from the targets. It’s already too big but well balanced.
Add Pagle and Whitemane, to provide more viable targets for PVP servers.
Add Normal servers such as Atiesh, Mankrik and Westfall, to provide options for those who just want to PVE and got caught up in the “PVP is better PVE” meta nonsense.
The people who want to move to PVP servers, say they do it because they want ‘better players’. Only the large PVE servers would provide a viable alternative because the small ones will be ignored by people stuck in the “PVP is better PVE” nonsense.
I suspect it’s to limit the “I moved to PVE, but I don’t like it so I want to go back to PVP” issues. If you pay for it, clearly you’ve made a firm decision.
Felstriker should never have been made, the server was made when Blizzard saw more Oceanic players than expected at the start of Classic so they, in a panic made Felstriker and Yojamba. Honestly Yojamba shouldn’t have been made either but I guess it did quell the server queues that occured the first few months of Classic.
I honestly don’t know why both of the servers are a choice, sure OCE doesn’t have that many servers but I think that one or the other is completely fine. Arugal is the most populated server on OCE so I’d understand why they’d send them there but Yojamba is slightly more balanced. In the end I think it ultimitly doesn’t matter, the number of players that ironforge.pro says that’s on Felstriker is ~5 which obviously isn’t enough for raiding so they’re PvP’ers which I can assume that they just don’t care what server they end up in.
You’re probably correct, but it still seems a bit odd to not allow the option. Oh, wait. This is Blizzard, they don’t really like providing too many options.
Blizzard Fix the PVP Servers and enable the migration for PVE players to be able to go to their respective PVE realms (from PVP to PVE), because this situation of PVP servers makes no sense, given that they are servers that since their creation there were meant to be both factions and lots of PLAYER VERSUS PLAYER content.
You want Pagle (not PVP fyi) and Mankrik added as destinations but not much smaller realms like mine???
“Windseeker is decently populated right now”
-Are you on something? Realms like mine are on life support, barely alive, desperate for more people to come in before it’s too late. You however want to send them to realms that already have far more people and don’t need more. I’m glad you’re not in charge of this.
“these people don’t want to go to medium servers, they want to join the megaservers.”
-And allowing that is why all the realm populations are screwed up. You would feed the narcissists when we need to do the opposite of that.
Yes, that’s the point. Provide free PVP to PVE transfers for people who want to PVE and got caught up in the “PVP is better PVE” nonsense.
No, because making every server a megaserver is bad. Windseeker is decently populated right now, larger than TBC servers were back then. And these people don’t want to go to medium servers, they want to join the megaservers.
Earthfury is an interesting case, at time of consolidation they noticed it was dead and it was on the chopping block for a minute. But then they realized, oops we didn’t have it on the list, better keep it open. Because you can’t just nuke a server without any notice.
But yeah, alliance died nearly a year ago and then horde left five months ago.
Blizz takes 6+ months to react to anything regarding servers.
