In light of Blizzard’s decision today to effectively shut down Chaos Bolt by restricting character creation and ‘encouraging’ players to transfer to Crusader Strike for free, I feel compelled to ask…‘Blizzard, why are you so obsessed with Megaservers?’
I don’t get it. Do you guys not realize that not every player wants to play on those servers? Personally, I can’t stand them. There is ZERO server community. It’s just a mass of strangers. It’s Layered to the teeth, which causes all kinds of problems. There’s an army of bots everywhere. The server economy is wrecked. Chat channels are endlessly spammed with boosts, and summons, and whatever other service players can come up with to spam. It’s unbearable.
I will never play on a Megaserver. I will quit the game first. And looking at the Ironforge server population numbers…Chaos Bolt is doing just fine. How is 5k entries bad? Because it’s not the ridiculous numbers of those atrocities called Megaservers? 5k is what about what should be the goal. That’s how the game was originally designed. Actually, it was designed for less but these days that’s a healthy amount. 40k is joke. That’s not a server; that’s just trash. Again, there’s no community on a Megaserver. Everyone is a stranger. And there’s no World either. There’s 20 sliced Layers of one. Layers are awful as well, and completely antithetical to the Classic experience. But they go hand-in-hand with Megaservers.
Like I said…I don’t get it. I remember a Blue post a year or two ago where it was stated “We’re putting an end to Megaservers”. What happened to that? You’ve gone the complete opposite direction. Now I have to worry about any low pop server being dissolved and forced to transfer to a Megaserver. That’s not a good feeling.
And if Blizz feels like a server is lower population than they’d like, then the obvious solution is to allow free transfers TO that server, not away from it. They’re doing the opposite of what they should be doing. Which just returns to their obsession with creating Megaservers. How about we just have 1 server with 1000 layers and call it a day? Wonderful. How very Classic that would fee.
You gotta remember of those 5k a lot of them are people raiding in multiple guys so in reality its closer to 2 or 3 k
If you couldnt raid around 5 to 7 ST there basically 0 raiding guilds, and gnomer pugs in this server are rare and brutal when you even do get in this one and with the raids becoming 20 man would have even been worse.
As cool as it was seeing the same faces if you could not raid at absolute prime time you were pretty screwed.
This topic is counter to the several topics requesting transfers from realms that are effectively dead by comparison.
(Usually due to a comparatively small pool of players with which to find groups for group content…)
I ended up on a large PvP server because my guild wanted to go to a populated server, and PvP Streamer servers are typically where that seed is. (I don’t particularly care for PvP servers most of the time, but I do like Populated servers.)
Having leveled on the PvE cluster of Era and raged out for never being able to do anything at end game due to a lack of population, and then transferring that character to the PvP cluster and experiencing the difference- I’m okay with larger population servers. (And it’s a hard sell to convince people to go from an environment where there are plenty of prospects for group content to one where group content may not be possible at all for entire sections of the day or week.)
A server thats only active 20% of the time is pretty sufficient to call it dead, compared to other servers that I can find s group for literally anything at any time besides at 4 or 5 in the morning.
It’s a perfectly valid point lmfao. It’s what vanilla had and it was perfect. We wanted classic to move away from sharding and get the old community feel.
Splitting Crusader Strike at the beginning with giving ppl the option to freely move off to the new rpPVP sever would have stopped this problem from happening. Lots of people felt stuck there since SOD began which is weird. Like people generally dislike change so they go thru crappy things unless there’s an immediate benefit. Sunk cost fallacy comes to mind but it wasn’t even like people had even invested anything at that point it was just guilds and friends who picked that server and getting everyone to start fresh just isn’t going to happen even a week in if at all. This is all from the outside perspective as someone who was going to join that server but said nah when every stream joined and just went to the one PVE realm
You have still not given any reasoning “just bc it was like that in vanilla” is such a crap way to reason, lets get gdkps going again, 100g mounts, no lving boosts, take runes out! OG vanilla is perfect! /s
GDKPs were extremely rare in vanilla. They didn’t pop off until wrath. And back then blizzard actually had human beings moderating their game and actually gave severe punishments to swipers.
Removing 100g mounts was a massively idiotic mistake for SoD. Gold farms are a big part of classic WoW.
Again, level boosts are an insanely idiotic mistake. Maybe you should be playing retail since I’m noticing a pattern of you preferring a more retail philosophy?
The reasons why smaller servers are superior are all over this thread including the OP, you are just ignoring them and pretending nothing was given instead of engaging with the arguments lmfao.
Point was OG caps were 2.5-3k and it was perfect. There was no issues. Nobody who wanted classic asked for these garbage megaservers, they only exist due to blizzards incompetence of making layers permanent in TBC and refusing to merge actually low pop servers.
Well thank god you are wrong and the data supports that, ironically you are the type of person that thinks “im doing okay everyone else must be right?” Imagine a group of millionaires get together and say “golly jee everything is ok for me what are all these normies complaining about?”
Imagine complaining about having to play with more people in an MMO.
“But I wont see the same names in trade chat!” The friend list is there for a reason, use it. Server was in a heavy decline and you think its okay for people who cant raid at 5-7 pm ST to never raid normally? Weak logic
