It wasn’t within a month.
Classic came out in 2019.
TBC was released in 2021.
Then they stop playing.
It’s almost like a we’ve seen this trend before.
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Yes they did. They didn’t lock factions. They didn’t merge servers. They didn’t add queues incentivizing diversity among the servers. They allowed server transfers to ALREADY faction heavy realms (seriously, what kind of idiot move was that??)
This is BLIZZARD’S game. THEY are responsible for every aspect of it including server health. In what other business is the management of that business left to the customers? Stop excusing their total failure.
Y’all act like the people would keep playing instead of quit.
“Humm, pay 15 bucks, or spend 7 days of my free time doing the same thing again with non of the stuff I already earned. Nah I’ll just quit”.
Wow classic was always going to be a dying game, the only thing up in the air is the rate. I don’t think any of us have any numbers that will allow us to be even close to causal claims.
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Um…
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Locking factions would destroy the game.
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Merging realms would have more negative impacts than positive. Everything you complain about Xrealms would be so much worse,
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Again friends thing. Preventing people from playing with friends would also destroy the game
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I think its time for blizzard to enforce server populations and some people are just going to have to reroll. I can’t stand mega servers, but dead servers are worse. This game is designed around server balance between factions and this crap we have now sucks. Enforce server populations, add server ques to encourage balanced servers, and disable character creation for factions that are more than 55 to 45 ratio. I’d gladly reroll if I new blizzard was going to enforce standards.
Also, either add dual spec or cap respec costs.
The population tells another story. Pop increased.
You wanted a lower pop experience, you got what you wanted but many others wanted a higher pop experience.
We NEVER should have had 41 servers. Ever.
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Well, that’s great that some people like mega servers, they can have that now. A mega server that feels and has the community experience of Retail.
The people who want lower pop and a tight-knit server well… they’re mostly out of luck. Maybe some of the lower pop PVE servers will survive which I hope they do.
The difference between us is that you think everyone wants the exact same experience (which of course is the one YOU want) and I know people like different things.
If these people actually exist, then those servers will continue to exist as well because they’ll be playing on them.
It seems to me, however, that the vast majority of BC players prefer the one sided mega servers, else why would they be so popular?
That’s the thing about data… it never lies.
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If these people actually exist ??? People have said their preferences right on these forums. People have said they like small servers. I exist believe it or not and I find the mega one-sided server experience to be not fun or for me. Have you ignored this completely or what?
- Fear of the server having problems again. “Once bitten, twice shy”, the knowledge Blizzard will absolutely nothing so the large mega servers are the only safe choice. Even if it gives a worse community experience (for them because yes some really enjoy them but that is in no way everyone that plays on them). Note that many on these forums have mentioned this. This is a HUGE reason.
- Following #1 No other real choice. Dead or mega. To be fair there are a few other servers right now that are in between like I said, a couple of the PVE ones (and Grobbulus for RP and World PVP but it is mega), and I hope those make it for those who like different servers.
- People who wanted the small community experience just quit the game because this game is no longer fits them and they know it. So it isn’t worth playing.
I actually have no problem with people liking mega servers and I’ve tried to not be negative about them for a long time but I hate selfish people, close-mindedness and the inability to understand how other people think and feel, and the lack of TBCC servers choice. Especially since the older TBC servers never were able to expand to these numbers so the experience isn’t even authentic.
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It’s a contradiction.
You want all the benefits of a small server with none of the draw backs.
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I want the same server experience and choice we had in Classic. That’s it. Not the one that caters only to some people and not to others.
Yeah, and for some reason, they’re all still playing on mega faction imbalanced servers.
I wonder why that is. 
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I already answered that. When responding to someone please try reading what they say next time.
That’s a pipe dream that just isn’t going to happen. The damage has been done the second paid transfers were implemented. The only hope now is to connect servers into clusters like they did for classic era. Otherwise, these smaller population servers will continue to slowly die, I’m willing to bet they don’t make it through this next raid tier. Like I’ve mentioned before people transfer daily to the 3 NA pvp mega servers.
The real answer:
They don’t actually like being on a small server. And by small, I mean a healthy server by original TBC’s standards.
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Only a close-minded person would respond in that way. You don’t seem to understand what’s going on at all.
A lot of people have quit instead of or soon after doing the mega server thing. You understand this right? I get the impression that you have no clue. it seems to be the common theme over there.
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Nobody wants to be on a server where they can’t run the content. Thus why most go to the mega servers. Why? because you can actually play the game you pay for.
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Insults are not counter points.
And your evidence is where?
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Multiple friends of mine that have quit over this maybe? Who put it right in the cancellation box by the way.
PLUS people on these forums have said it. Do you want me to dig up statements made on the forums?
I’m sorry for calling you close-minded but you flat out ignored three points I made to you and instead just repeated yourself so that is not being open-minded or showing care or understanding for other people.