As per Blizzard’s latest post on the server queue issues they have stated that almost all the servers are on average at least twice the population of a full server from 2008.
So stop with all this “Dead Server” nonsense and consider the idea of migrating off the fail mega servers. If you stick around at this point you don’t really have a right to complain about queues. The only people with a legit claim to this complaint are the ones that rolled the server at the start and did not transfer there.
In an age with discord and social media the excuse of “but muh guild and friends lists!” doesn’t hold water. You all have the same option laid out on the table for you. Do yourselves a favor and at least consider it.
Here is a link to the discussion so you can read it for yourself.
Good luck with your queues and I hope you have a great night.
I think people are more afraid of a mid expansion population dropoff that leaves them struggling to replace raiders than they are about things right now. I don’t think my guild is going to risk leaving Benediction, as some people in my guild spent $200 transferring their alts from Heartseeker when it died off.
That’s great, except my 2022 phone is almost as powerful as my crappy PC was back in 2006-2008. Technology has advanced a lot.
They had already stated this was not a hardware problem, but a software and design problem, That I can believe. Using the same codebase from 2006 is not working as efficiently as it could in 2022’s world.
Regardless, dead servers are dead. Go create a character on Myzrael and stand in SW for an hour, then compare that to an active server.
It appears ol’ joe stretched the truth a little bit. There were only like 5 US servers and 7 EU servers listed as twice the population of 2008. The point still stands though as I’ve had mega server players tell me my realm is a dead one yet we have absolutely no issue in finding players to do content.
To be honest, people view Horde Bene as dead, but there’s a small but tight community of roughly 200 people there. Makes the social interactions more impactful, and makes it feel more like the original experience, because making friends actually matters. People just love the spout the “dead server dead server” jibberish, and that’s what got us the mega server of Benediction in the first place.
Same man. I think people would transfer off, if blizz gave them a voucher to transfer back, if their new server died. Having a ton of gold invested in guild banks is another factor, so they should work that out also. Either a gold refund or allow guild transfers.
I’m being facetious. Myzrael took a huge population drop when many of the guilds transferred to Atiesh within a couple weeks of each other but we are growing again slowly. I just feel Blizzard should be helping us out rather than opening fresh realms.
i think the issue is really layering that makes servers with a ‘decent’ population feel super super dead
can vouch for myzrael being dead though, two of the guilds i was in were two of the big ones that transferred off, really surprised it didnt get put on the consolidation list, the LFG channel on that realm can be used as a comfy global chat during even the most busy hours
This is why Blizzard is allocating resources to a NEW server instead of to EXISTING servers. They LIE (they’re well known for lying) saying that server capacity cannot be increased. There are plenty of games where players on different realms/channels can still be in the same guild and play with each other.
It is Blizzard’s CHOICE to separate players and make moving servers risky… because they will make lots of money when players need to leave a sparse server.
The technology is there, Blizzard just refuses to make the experience good for the players and instead insists on scamming players into leaving a populous server to a server where it’s not as easy finding players, expecting to make bank on the players that eventually transfer back when xfer restrictions are lifted and queues are gone.
This is some premium garbage you’re spouting. There’s only 200 people there because being on a dead server is only OK to those 200 people… the rest of the players feel differently.
They already said it’s not a hardware issue. The technology is there but we are running a program that is almost 20 years old. Have you ever tried to play a game from 1993 on your current computer without using dosbox? Your current computer doesn’t even know what to do with a game that old.
If blizzard is complaining about slow auction house due to the amount of players… that’s a hardware issue. It’s always a hardware issue. I have played Bloody Roar on my computer without issue so I don’t get your analogy, sounds dumb. However, the real reason is probably money, because more hardware means spending more money. Obviously WoW classic isn’t high in their budget priorities.
Pretty much. This char was made day 1 of name claim week. Blizz made the decision to dump dead servers into ours months back. Now we’re suffering for that decision.
That’s because they have retail brain and want every group to form instantly. Everyone’s super against LFR, but Benediction Alliance is literally LFR on steroids. So many people that no one makes a difference, and you can instantly replace them without a thought. Hell, you could probably ninja stuff on alliance benediction, and because chat is so flooded you’d never be able to actually call them out to stop them from recruiting.
Bene is to horde what skeram was to ally. Your 200 horde players are having the best personal experience the game has to offer. I should know, I rerolled to skeram after all those kirm videos popped up, and it was the closest thing to the original vanilla experience you could have (lots of wpvp, close community of raiders, establishing social relationships, no GDKPs or boosting to artificially boost up, etc.
alot of bene ally don’t realize but they are doing to bene what horde did to skeram; just mass consumed it to the point of it not providing the original classic experience anymore. And that server was one of the original 50/50 realms for classic, even after phase 2 pvp drama. That is why I mostly consider this a player issue; if players truly cared for server balance (and they don’t, they want retail consumption), there would be more than just grob with a 50/50 active balance + high pop.