Personal preferences, egos, and roleplay desire aside; it would be a logistical nightmare.
Who gets to keep their name if two people have the same name?
Who gets the guild if there are two of the same name?
Which timezone does the server get to be?
Could the actual servers handle the loads from having two high/full servers put together?
The entire point of more than one server was because there were so many people. Everyone already cries about sharding as it is, but that is how you deal with many people in one place.
So to me, as ‘fun’ as the idea may seem, it just isn’t realistic.
Very much so, it will happen organically long before they start considering even linking servers.
It’s already happening. Inevitable truth is Moon Guard is the mega server for roleplay. Alliance roleplayers keep making the pilgrimage here from their empty and devoid roleplaying servers. It started picking up for Horde as well during Shadowlands. I know WRA hates hearing it, but if they can’t start matching big events like Dance of the Dead and other MG Horde rp events, the trickle from WRA will turn into a flood within a few years.
I don’t know about the assertions that the cultures and the people are dramatically different. In my experience the roleplayers of MG and WRA are really, aside from a few big-name guilds and projects, the same big group already whose members flow back and forth between the two servers pretty frequently.
Colloquially, subjectively, X faction on X server is like X and Y faction on Y server is like Y, but I don’t know many people who have only ever played on one or the other. There are groups and individual people who have different preferences and styles, but I don’t know if each server can be painted with an “everyone is like this” brush.
I’d personally LOVE to see everything be more interconnected, and have thriving walk-up RP that could happen between the factions because both factions had a big presence without having to pre-arrange stuff through guilds and Discords. Groups and individuals with different preferences will likely keep having those preferences, but in a larger community you’re more likely to find people with the same preferences that you have. Connected servers would do that well enough, really, and stuff like TOA is already cross-server.
Never fails to amaze me the number of people who dismiss MG Horde and then in the same paragraph admit that they’ve never played it.
That’s like saying you don’t like strawberries because you’ve only eaten bananas. Maybe try it for yourself before leaping to conclusions based on other people’s outdated opinions?
MG Horde is a great server with an awesome community and I like it just how it is. MG Alliance has a few fruit loops but they’re some of the friendliest players you’ll ever meet.
It’s called server loyalty. It comes from getting involved and being a part of it, not by sitting alone in the bandstands counting heads.
The only thing that’s been repeatedly said is that the Horde population is small, That’s not a negative. A fair number of players prefer small tight-nit communities over the mega-populations like MG Alliance.
^ idk, this does seem fairly dismissive and negative.
What’s going to happen is probably a lot of alts getting dusted off on either faction, and new characters of both factions getting made.
Worried that Horde is smaller on MG than WrA? Get ahead of it and make a Horde alt before this change is implemented.
I have characters of both factions on both servers. Different server cultures that would make it a bit of a mess to merge them IMO. Might still happen some day but it will be fractured from the start.
For now… cross-faction guilds will be worth as much as you put into them. If your guild is going to allow members of one, more or all of the opposite faction’s races, get it going early!
You’re right but we barely hear or see any of it. Even in the open world we got more chance to see people from a low pop realm such as Shadow Council.
To my understanding UC Nexus is one of the large guild holding a part with the horde RP community. Maybe it’d be good to try maybe work with the Alliance. Because to be honest I did blood Elf mage and I got really lonely on the Horde side.
Reaching out people is not easy when we don’t see a big presence of the horde roleplayers. The only people I see are those from “WHIP IT GOOD”. That certainly is not a name that scream horde community.
Now I don’t mean that everything should be cross faction. But we are all roleplayers (Primary). And I hate needing to jump across servers. But enjoy having different characters, what I’m referring to is accessibility and ease to reach out.
So that way, people can stop to constantly ship everyone to WRA. Because I strongly and firmly believe Moon Guard has a better community and is a better server.
Reading this post, I am a touch confused am not certain how much more MG Horde can do to be more ‘visible’. The most frequent issue I see is that people come to MG Horde, knowing mostly MG Alliance and are disappointed when they discover Org and Silvermoon are NOT the same RP hub as Stormwind. The reality is the Horde lacks a well-polished capital city to hang out in, and rp - and so we often prefer to use the world.
A quick scroll through the server forums shows active recruitment of MG Horde RP guilds. Additionally, The Horde Vanguard was recently founded by the IC RP Horde community to foster and support MG Horde faction rp. I personally post screenshots of active Horde rp events on these forums, and in reddit. There is visible promotion of rp events, and more. The same can be said for discord and reddit activity. My guild alone hosts 2 weekly cross-faction rp events, takes part in Conquest, and hosts rp-pvp cross faction. We also founded the cross-faction community the Eternal Court of Lordaeron.
With the kind support and help of the MG RP community, Dance Of The Dead is possible as a large-scale cross-faction story and event. Due to cross-faction support, this year had 10+ million gold in prizes, and on each night 5+ raids of cross-faction rpers. Blizzard voice actors attended the event to do meet-and-greet sessions with fans. Even WoWHead and Blizzard took notice of this years event.
In 2022, I can think of 15+ crossfaction rp-pvp events that I helped and organized to foster crossfaction interconnectivity in which the Horde and Alliance faced each other down in different manners.
The question I am often left with, how much more is the Horde RP community expected to do to seen as active and worth supporting?
Either way, I gotta go grab my trusty fishing pole and get ready for some casual rp this week. See you at the fishing social. Below are some posted that might be helpful to folks.
This is the visibility I am referring to. Anyone coming on Moon Guard and picking up Horde right now, or even Alliance will not see it because it’s just a bad timing and I pray the phasing is not going to stick around because really put nails in the coffin and impact a lot of what’s going as of right now.
But generally speaking that’s what the most common people, they log on, look for activity. On the Alliance side it is pretty simple. You often see guild doing recruitment with their banner, people wearing costumes, people active.
WRA has that, people hang out in ORG. Silvermoon generally has some stuff going on. Heck even Emerald Dream you can see more people in cities.
I’m not saying there should be necessarily a need of a physical presence. But advertising it in the world would probably help out. Because I have two characters on the Horde I’ve leveled up. And I’ve only seen two Blood Elves chatting in Orgrimmar once in Valley of Honor doing Bar RP.
Honestly it felt discouraging. But I told myself maybe eventually I’ll find a place to put my Horde characters into.
I rather being on my server and make friends locally over externally or WRA. Because I left WRA personally due to not being on par with it’s community which I feel is a bit too extreme and sort of not, very nice. But everyone has their own personal opinion on that.
Yes I’ve seen it being part of a Youtube video. Looked fantastic it was nice to see how many people was there.
I do worry with this phasing how difficult it might be to make more such even still occur.
The key to seeing a return to visible Horde rp? Is out of our hands. The Horde need viable nice places to rp.
In Cata, blizzard destroyed -the- main hub for Forsaken RP, Brill. For the Forsken RP community, anymore the best place we have for RP is Ambermill. For years Silvermoon has sat ignored, growing more and more painfully out of date. Org is…mostly barren, lacking basic details and immersive aspects to it as basic as chairs.
Meanwhile, the updated Hammerfall outpost in Arathi is polished, immersive, well throughout, and has great rp options. Simple smaller cities in the open world setting are nicer than capital cities for the Horde. It stinks. Until the capital cities are addressed, I don’t see the Horde going back to them.
Enjoy Stormwind, it is a wonderful hub for rp and a blessing to the Alliance community.
I do not disagree with any of this. The Alliance does not really have anything outside of Stormwind either. Sure there is Ironforge at the times but most people just don’t go there.
We have to work we what we got sadly. I think the consensus on that is the general lack of support for RP from Blizzard. Toys can be fun but they only do so much…
Oh it’s pretty dead, honestly this phasing and this new Trading post makes everything around it look so dated. But yes I suppose there’s people, which is pretty essential.
I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. The death of an Emerald Dream. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
I have characters in MG and Wyrm. I honestly wish Horde had more people like MG does. I actually dropped Horde again and returned to MG because I enjoy the vibe it holds.
A Horde equivalent to Alliance MG would be fun. I love seeing open RP and walk ups. I legit saw a person rping a librarian, ask for directions and the person escorted her while walking and chatting. That stuff is so cute to me, the world felt alive.
That’s why I don’t really like Horde RP, in MG especially, it’s already really low and it’s too “you gotta be in a guild” instead of more freedom. Having to search that hard for RP isn’t fun to me but I get others like close-knit feelings and that’s perfectly fine but I personally just like the openess better.
It’s worth noting the forums are not used by a large amount of players to any frequency. More in game presence would be beneficial but how does one realistically do so? Good question.
Nobody is coming for the quality of MG horde community. The quality is there. But an average Joe that wants to just rp a troll or something without joining a military or race specific guild he had to look up on the forums might log in, see it’s empty, and just log out. Having a combined server would remedy that particular issue. Which would just generate more community.
So all I have read where people that are upset that the capital cities were not populated enough for their type of RP. This is no different than the doom and gloom of RP being “dead” because of two weeks of sharding in Stormwind.
It is your $15, if you are not happily getting your required dose of RP in the format you like, you can find other games or avenues. It does not require entire mass changes to servers since you are the minority. Even when Stormwind is packed, you are still the minority of players.
There are hundreds of active RP guilds that use the rest of the world for their RP and do open events, and cross-faction events, and just enjoy paying their $15 to do more than sit on a wall and hope someone walks up.
Roleplay is not dead.
We don’t need to merge servers.
Besides, if RP was to die, it technically already did the cause of the time skip, remember those threads? Oh, the tragedy of not being able to RP out those three years and make up some history for your character. RP is dead! /sarcasm
Man. There’s a lot of people who seem to speak for the entire horde community here to defend RP not being dead (nobody said that). Why are these people so confrontational and hostile?
