These two servers are heavily one sided,
According to a few server population websites
Both on east coast time zone both are pvp servers, well as of right now not really more like a pve server with a pvp title in it bragging rights maybe?
Benediction = 29k alliance
Faerlina = 24k horde
It is not even, but its close enough, I vote merge these two servers on the day of wotlk launch, and just grab some popcorn and watch from the sky above.
Enjoy the 2 day long queues on a server that size
That is NOT a good solution. We don’t need an “ultra server”. What we need is for Blizzard to step in and actually help with faction imbalance overall, rather than only intervening in highly specific sccenarios like this.
Why do people repeatedly suggest this? How clueless do you have to be?
Benediction alone is now bigger than Firemaw EU was, and Firemaw ended up with extreme lag and a login queue.
Not to mention, these are single faction megaservers because the MAJORITY of people on them, transfered away from any semblance of pvp on purpose.
Leave the servers alone already.
Want to see the other faction? You move elsewhere.
Merge them and all the “pvper’s” will just en masse leave again to another 99/1 ratio server. They want pvp until pvp happens. Wonder why those servers are so lopsided…
World pvp is a waste of time.
People don’t like to PvP if they’re losing.
The players have demonstrated time and time again that they don’t want world PvP.
You’ll need a 50k plus server to do anything without dungeon finder lolz
Players don’t want that
a 50k population server with no added benefits for either side. Just added griefing, massive queues, and massive lag. No thanks.
What should be done is add the tech used in retail so that Faerlina and Benediction can fight each other out in the world, but still be separate servers. Character names would be preserved. Hell, even add a pvp flag for the carebears, although technically both are pvp servers.
Missing out on world pvp because of complete lack of balance on Blizzard’s part is unacceptable.
People do not like world PvP what don’t you get ?
They need to break up the megaservers and merge the broken up horde and alli servers into as many balanced servers as can be. If there has to be one with some imbalance, offer free faction transfers and have a mix of balanced layers and 1 faction layers until that realm becomes balanced. Restrict transfers, cap server population at 6k, and have faction queue’s when server is worse than 55/45 or 60/40.
How can they spin this for, “preserving the community” when they’d be breaking two different communities up?
How does it work for players who participate in community events, but also are part of a guild?
Give people a time frame to choose what broken up server they’d like to be on to ensure they go to the same realm with their guild and friends, or simply provide a list of people you would like to be on the same server with. The former solution is probably more practical.
So, don’t even bother trying to preserve the community and force players to split up.
If community doesn’t matter, then LFD should be added at launch.
A 30k server is not a community. People have their clique group of friends and in guild in the megaserver cesspool, but the server as a whole cannot be a community with that many people. A sensible server breakup would allow people to choose to move with their friends and guild, which is the closest thing to community they have.
Why?
Are you saying 5-10k population servers have a close knit community, and don’t have their own clique/group of friends and guild? Isn’t the primary reason people are anti-LFD for the, “community” aspect? Wouldn’t that mean there are more opportunities to socialize and make friends on a server with a population of 30k?
Which is it? Does the community matter, or not?
How do you know? I know of a number of guilds that play together, along with GDKPs. Who are you to say that a breakup of an entire server into smaller servers is acceptable?
No thanks, keep Bene PvE, all the pve server players are coming over and we don’t want world pvp.