I want to roll on a low pop US PvP server...why can't I?

If Blizzard said that medium population servers are actually much bigger than the largest Vanilla servers then why are there no low population servers to allow for a more authentic experience?
There are literally no low population servers anymore for US EAST or WEST whether PvP or otherwise. They simply don’t exist.
What if people want to play on a low population server? We can’t even have ONE?

We can’t have ONE DAMN LOW POPULATION SERVER?!

Wake up Blizzard. You’re crapping the bed here and it’s getting to be outrageous. Make some more damn servers!

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What about Loatheb?

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It’s medium and I don’t speak spanish.

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Ohhh but “no one wants that”… Meanwhile… in reality, countless of us have asked for exactly that. Yet they continue to have selective hearing. “Only certain subs matter” is the message we’re getting (again). :unamused:

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Oh, is it?

What are the thresholds? And how do we know? Or, is it just based on what it says on the realm selection screen?

I was looking at ironforge.pro, which only has data based on raid teams that are uploading logs to warcraftlogs, so it isn’t completely accurate.

If you go alliance on Skeram or Stalagg; I think you’ll find that the pop is quite low.

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Just looked on the realm selection screen. In other news I just cancelled my sub.
If they want my money they will create more servers and even go as far as capping them at 3k.

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It would be nice if they had that type of option for those who would prefer it.

Personally, I would like to see an unlimited sized, fresh server, with no possibility to transfer to it.

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The medium reflects combined horde and alliance populations. In general if you roll on a medium pve server horde side will be low on medium pvp alliance will be low pop. By low population I mean somewhere between 3 to 5 k total accounts.

And in a few weeks all servers will revert down one level once everyone has done zg and start to work again. My server was always medium but says high now due to corona and zg release.

You lost me at unlimited sized. That means layering, no thanks.
Not allowing transfers onto the new servers would definitely be necessary.

I’d prefer without layering. I like player choice with regards to population, personally, but I don’t think that my preferences should be forced on others.

It seems to me like it would be quite possible to have somewhat different population rules for some different servers, as we already see different rules with Normal and PVP realms.

Players said that. Players repeated that over and over. Blizzard never said that. In my opinion, it is not true.

It’s hard to find accurate numbers, but it looks like there is a 6-to-1 ratio in Classic between high-pop and low-pop servers. I don’t believe that those low-pop servers are still “much higher than Vanilla”.

Recently (in the long blue post) Blizzard said the Classic CAP is higher than the Vanilla CAP. But a CAP is 1 number for all servers – it is not the population of any server.

Just play on whitemane now, especially if you have a lower level already created there, it’s virtually dead.

Players take that statement out of context. They said that before Classic even launched, the statement is also long outdated. If you want a Low pop server, Arcanite Reaper will satisfy your desire.

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Yeah, they did say it but it’s obviously outdated. Blizzard doesn’t keep us updated on barely anything.

This is what Arcanite Reaper (Medium pop) looks like RIGHT now at 4:48 P.M. on a lockdown Saturday in Stormwind:

https://i.imgur.com/8jbiz5K.png

Arcanite Reaper is Alliance dominated:

https://classic.warcraftlogs.com/server/rankings/5095/1003#metric=progress&partition=2

If anyone claims that Arcanite Reaper is more populated than the most Full Vanilla servers, they are being wildly disingenuous.

Actually they did, several times

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er that does not look exactly normal, like at all.
Mind you i dont have any familiarity with AR but for comparison
https://i.imgur.com/dcixXLM.jpg
And we are considered Low/Medium pop

I mean AR looks like the plague hit it from that pic

Looks like an Ony head gathering, I’m gonna go take a look at Windseeker right now.

Dont look in silithis
Im the embarassing thing pretending to be a feral bear, and failing

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