Hey Blizzard, I don’t expect anyone to read this, but hey, if you are, well thanks.
I come from a little server called Deviate Delight (RP-PVP). It’s an incredible place and one of the last bastions of true RP left in the game. We even have our own newspaper called the Daily Deviate. (You guys don’t like external links, but you can google it. We have a website).
When people talked about wanting to bring back Vanilla because they wanted the “true Classic experience” they were talking about Deviate Delight. We have a realm of incredible guilds full of amazing people, and it has that “community” feeling that people complain retail lost.
But that was broken when layering was added to the mega-pop servers. There was a time where we had players trickle in from those places and it kept Deviate Delight alive and robust. But now there is no reason for players to migrate here and the server is dying. We’ve been losing guilds here and there for months, but October marks an exodus of transfers. 5-6 more guilds have announced their departures and we expect our server population to drop by another third by this time next month.
The people who are staying are staying because they consider Deviate Delight home, but we aren’t fools. The economy is crashing, hard, and it takes folks days to find groups for attunement heroics. We’re rallying the best we can, but its not sustainable. And many of those left would rather quit the game entirely than pay to transfer all their characters.
There are folks who have said they wish we could be instanced with a server like Grobbulus so that we could keep our realm tag but still experience the benefits of the economy / grouping. People have also talked about hope for free character transfers, either to or from DD, but like I said, I don’t think many from the high-pop realms would transfer here even if they could.
I don’t have an answer for you. This is just an SOS that our server is hurting and we need help.
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There have been a few threads about Deviate Delight already but I just wanted to say sorry to hear about what’s happened with it. From everything I’ve heard it was a really good, solid community, especially in Classic, which isn’t always seen.
Many, many other servers are going through or have gone through similar stuff in the last few months. 
All the best to you.
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Thanks for your reply - I looked through your post history and I appreciate how much you’ve advocated on this topic. It is a shame that we are all in this situation together. Looking back through the forum it doesn’t seem like there’s been any dev response whatsoever. Which is disappointing. But I would have been mad at myself if I didn’t try.
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someone save Deviate Delight, me not know how…ME NOT THAT KIND OF ORC!
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Gorge is doing all Gorge can to keep hope and love alive on Horde side in DD. We’re losing guilds like crazy, and those transferring off are promoting all that’s left to just let DD die. This is Gorge’s home, and Gorge will fight to the bitter end to keep DD alive.
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Unfortunately my guild is one of those transferring. Wish it were another way, as I do not want to give Blizzard any more money, but alas I feel like as if I have no choice. Do I abandon my friends or my principles? That’s the hard question. Otherwise I would have rather stayed and fight the good fight, as futile as it seems. Had they simply opened up transfers from Grobb to DD earlier on its possible the server would have reached critical mass needed to sustain itself. But they didn’t.
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I dont know what to say but the game hasnt been the same since my server died and mass transferred to other servers. We moved to a mega pop server and theres just no community here.
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Remember this pain next time Activision or Blizzard launch a game and make them suffer as you have.
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Although we may be from different lands and speak different tongues, I commend you Tauren for the battle you have fought. In this we are the same.
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And Gorge to you, we are not enemies, not anymore. We must unite to keep the server from full death. Not kidding at this point the Alliance and Horde will literally have to work together in anyway possible. There is 250 active Horde players right now and it is going to get smaller soon. Gorge seen the Alliance lose about 500 players in October, it’s getting baaaad. Another possibility is all the RP servers work together. RP is getting butchered out.
Give up? Gorge don’t know the meaning of that word.
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None of us want to transfer to the high-pop servers. There is no community there and if we wanted that sort of game we would play retail. If they took the remaining low pop realms and clustered us together, left everyone with their realm tags like they have in the past, it would aid us tremendously.
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That’s the biggest problem and why I pretty much have no desire whatsoever to transfer one of my alliance characters to Benediction even though most of the alliance on my server went there.
Then you have a role-playing server like Deviate Delight that had a very rich community and even outsiders such as myself knew it. So the problems suck even more.
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EXACTLY! Gorge left a high populated realm to a low one for the community driven experience. To Gorge mega populated realms with the layers and no login time and demand for instant group finding is just Retail. At this point Activision Blizzard is forcing the Classic player base to play Classic Retail. The line must be drawn here! No further! We wants community! WE WANTS CLASSIC! HEAR HEAR! WAR STOMP!
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Oh if you wanted community, DD was the place to go. It was the realm where Classic was emphasized and community driven! Think it time to remind people what Classic is all aboot, if Blizzard won’t do it, then perhaps we have to! FLEX!
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We had like 30+ Scarab Lords across a dozen different guilds. The great bug farm of 2020 was one of the greatest wow experiences I had in 15 years. We had monthly crystal cave raves in Un’goro Crater that hosted 200+ people at times. Tempo’s war with Purge and Shinnola during Classic over world buffs was beautiful.
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The server was amazing in classic. I absolutely loved it there. I transferred my toons off about a month ago because I simply could t get my attunements done. It’s such a shame because it was a wonderful server and the peoppe there are, by and large, absolutely awesome.
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More and more and more Gorge hears people who left DD are absolutely miserable and hate it. The servers they’re in are just pure retail, that’s all. No one knows or cares for each other. When DD was in it’s prime there wouldn’t be a hand that was helped. Wanted Scarab Lord? You got it! One of the most Scarab Lord’s in a server. We delayed the gates to be opened so more could get the title.
People need to be reminded that Classic isn’t supposed to be retail, IT’S CLASSIC! Time to remind people that. Stop paying blizzard money. Honestly if you’re miserable on your server but don’t want to pay back to DD, then make an alt of a class you’ve always wanted and just enjoy leveling up whether alone or with a friend. You won’t get dungeons or anything. If attunements are a problem, well they’ll be removed at some point and you won’t have to worry about them.
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There are not many of us left, but if you do roll here on DD, reach out to the community when you land. We will help you to get what you need to reach your goals–it has always been this way.
Guilds work together, both factions celebrate together.If you roll Horde, I can set you up with bags and such. I’ve done WC over 50 times helping not only the levelers in Thunderhoof Tribe, but from other guilds and solo players. We have a vested interest in your success!
On a side note; When this party is over, I intend to retire rather than transfer.
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Me give up, Mukk going to reroll ally on other server. Mukk cant get anything done so mukk cant enjoy game but me no pay greedy blizzard anymore money.
Didn’t you transfer to DD with a guild that made the decision to do so when transfers first became a thing?