I too would like to chime in here; as a member of this charming guild, active player on Deviate Delight, and well, as a newly returned costumer. I do not know much about the history that has taken place in the years since i stopped playing (both in-game lore or corporate cultural changes) but i do know a little something about managing multimillion (billion?) dollar corporate families. Hard decisions need to be made, committees need to agree, and various department heads and their teams have to implement those decisions. Closing servers was most likely not an easy decision.
I understand the process, what I do not understand is how/why the decision to rid the game of the only other RPPVP server. Grobbulus on the West coast is already full. Assuming, those that still want to participate in Role Playing & player versus player will migrate their characters to the one remaining server after the culling, how will an already full server handle the influx of characters?
People may not have been playing as of late, but a fair few will not want to lose all the progress they may have made over the years. I understand if no selection is made one will be made for those characters. But what about the admittedly few of us, who would want a RPPVP server for Wrath. Not a fresh server and new server. Is that in the cards?
What about the hype for Wrath that will bring back dormant players …players such as myself, who may have been gone for a while and are not really following the news as closely as active players?
Like I mentioned above, I understand how these processes follow a work flow. I think, however, someone inside that work flow should communicate a little more as to the metrics and vision for the future . If not for any other reason, to prevent paying customers making up their own conspiracies and assigning malice where no malice was intended.
I have fell in love with this game all over again, on a server with no Auction House, no LFG, little dungeoning, and no endgame raids. The Lore and discovery of an unfolding storyline, are all amazing. However, it was the people i met (the few admittedly) that like me, wanted to PLAY the game and get into character and QUEST that has kept me logging on and paying, the last few months.
i dont think that it would have been possible if i had to play on a full server like Grobbulus. (and it is full before all the other characters will be migrated from Deviate Delight)
If the simple fix is to compensate us for the gold investment our guild has made, and move on, so be it. But we would really love a little more information about if there will be another RPPVP server with Deviate Delight’s death, and Grobbulus’s undoubtedly large population influx.
Also please remember it only takes a small number of people to ruin a majority of peoples game. even if 1% of an RP server people act like buffoons, 1% of a couple hundred is a lot different than 1% of 40,000.
If someone in the know would respond to our GM’s OP that would be great. And if some of our guild’s other worries and concerns could be mollified or explained, that would be even better. Thank you for your time.
Now if you will excuse me, i just hit level 60 (for the first time) and This Argent Dawn group need my help ridding this poor human town of the Scourge.
