When my realm was connected to 3 others in MoP, we were medium population and throughout the years that has gone lower and lower. In fact we are now listed as New Players in the realm list. Trying to recruit for mythic is near impossible because it’s essentially a “dead realm” with only 2 guilds now that are in mythic and who wants to transfer to an extremely low pop. server?
When are we going to see more realms get connected together? There’s currently 43 realms listed as Low/New Players so I can’t see how this isn’t a topic of discussion for Blizzard. Is there even a downside to connecting realms?
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Very few people do.
Yes. I am a firm believer that WoW was in a better spot when we had real server communities.
About the only solution you have is to accept that it’s going to be harder to recruit and keep players than it is to actually get the content down. Or you could move to another server with a real population.
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It’s abundantly obvious that realm connections need to be happening a lot more. That, or they need to just drop their insistence on not making mythic raids cross-realm functional from the start (instead of making everyone wait for it).
That’s not a downside to connected realms, it’s just an observation that the game was healthier back when the overall population everywhere was healthier.
Blizzard’s ignoring the need for more connections and they’ve been ignoring it for a while.
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I think part of the idea of that is that if you have to play with your own server to do mythic raids without waiting it’ll strengthen the server community. Of course, that theory falls apart when there’s about 25 people with the chops to do mythic raiding and 22 of them are in the same guild.
No, it serves are a reminder that they screwed faction balance up for years for that sweet faction transfer cash. It should remain as a reminder and faction transfers to Horde should stop entirely.
some people like low pop servers, just move to ones that are high or full
Yeah, not sure where I draw the line at a healthy server population, but it’s definitely somewhere in the vicinity of “can support a few cutting edge guilds that offer differences in scheduling.”
Ironically, when a server operates below that, it’s actually failing to connect them that kills “server communities.” As people clear out of the server looking for more fertile fields, and guilds die out, what else would anyone call that than a server community dying? Alternatively, connected realms means they get to stick together with a larger recruitment pool.
That some people love dead servers is a terrible reason to hold off on Connected Realms for any particular server. The only possible exception could be some RP servers. It’s also been a while since low-pop server gameplay offered much of a benefit. This isn’t the old days where tags couldn’t be shared.
I’m not saying it’s the best course of action, just that if they can’t bother themselves with actually using their connected realm option, then it’s better than the alternative.
It would also be a terrible approach for them to say, “let’s keep things bad in this part of the game as a reminder to ourselves of how bad another part of the game is going.” It also probably only makes the Alliance faction issues worse (if an Alliance raiding guild dies out on a server due to lack of a recruitment pool, chances are the people who leave the server are also more willing to faction change to find a good raiding environment, and that means they faction change to Horde).
Blizzard should be doing everything they can to try and shore up the raiding guilds that are still operating.
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While that is an option, our guild has been on this server for 15 years this November so the chances of that are slim. We also shouldn’t have to spend millions of gold in tokens and/or potentially hundreds of dollars to be on a populated server.
They are listing it as “New Server” but if I were you and I was that keen on playing on a high population server I would post on the forums for a merger since Retail has too many servers to begin with.
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The only reason I’d be against a merge is the fact there’s going to be an overlap of player names.
The amount of realms that are in retail is insane.
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the way i see it with the tinfoil hat :
connected realms happened so they could close down the Dallas and NYC data centers. perhaps so they could get an oceanic data center, or because having four data centers in USA alone was getting too expensive
/tinfoil hat off
“Connected realms” actually doesn’t have that issue. Everyone keeps their character name. The original server is left intact, it just makes it so that the servers that get “connected” can join each other’s guilds and merges their auction house. The server name is displayed after the character name (like you see when you group with people from a different server through the premade finder).
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How does connected realm ruin communities? Connected you have more people to connect with, more chances to make friends, more people available to join in on common interests.
You have all the same tools to re connect with those people. You can group with them again, friend lists to remember them. Its not like you can never see them again.
Op suffers cause the low pop is ruining his ability to connect with people for common interests. This is a communty problem that can be fixed with connected server.
Ill never umderstamd how people stand by this statement that individual servers are better for community. Its an mmo and the technology is there to significanlty enhance the multiplayer aspect. You wanna play four player split screen with a small group of buddies then grab a n64 goldeneye and have at it.
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I know, I would prefer connected I was just responding since that person said merge.
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People have posted this same thing before. I honestly don’t know, it is weird on connected realms that are still way under population.
Or condensing servers together, then having them connected with others. I remember one of their reasons for not condensing servers, way back, was that they knew people liked the “community” of their own server; However, those days have been gone for quite some time (and if anything, having connected ones kind of make it moot.)
I feel like I’m merged with Doomhammer now (I’m on Baelgun, forget what the other ones we are connected with are.) It FEELS like it, but the only difficulties is when someone wants to give you gold/exchange stuff. So you basically have the same feel as if you were merged, down to even being able to be in a guild. But you kind of have a penalty, in not being able to do somethings (which doesn’t make sense.)
I assume they will add Layering to retail and are testing it with classic which will help realms feel more populated etc. But that won’t fix the actual population issue on realms we are seeing.
I feel like Surnames would solve a lot of overlapping name issues.
Blizz, if you make it so that we can have proper surnames, then server mergers would not only be far more viable, but desirable.
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I don’t think a full merge is necessary just connecting realms is enough at this point.
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What about low pop faction on high servers? possible to realm connect stormrage and area 52 so that alliance on a52, and horde on stormrage have end game options?
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