These queue times are unreasonable. “Just use the free transfer.” is not a solution and spits in the face of what makes classic special in the first place. Community.
Why would I want to transfer off the server I’ve been on since classic release? The friends I’ve made, the Guild I’m in, the people I know and remember after playing for years. All of that disappears if I transfer.
My guild isn’t going to leave and risk the chance of a dead realm, I can’t nor would I even bother trying to uproot people from the server they’ve known and loved for years.
“Just transfer off.” isn’t a realistic solution, not if you want to play the game as it was intended to be. A place to foster an online community, what they said they’re trying to keep in place, a part of what inspired classic to become a reality in the first place.
These queue times are ridiculous. These queue times were preventable. Blizzard did nothing. This won’t be solved by killing communities in a game with one of its biggest draws being the communities.
Blizzard posted about how they want mega servers broken up and aren’t going to implement any fix other than free transfers. So if you think there is a longass queue now, just wait until WotLK release. Its gonna get even worse unfortunately.
Do y’all really believe Blizzard is just sitting on some magical fix that doubles player capacities per realm? Sure, transfers to less populated realms is a garbage solution, but it’s the solution that they have (and has been the same solution they’ve had for beyond a decade now to this very issue).
They forgot the part where you can’t q arenas with people on other realms. If qs were cross server like skirms are then there would be a lot more transfers
Saying no to the free transfer is a perfectly reasonable response. Its what I’ve chosen as well.
But with that choice comes the understanding that you are now waiting for others to say yes before things can get better.
Server locks and free transfers are how Blizzard has decided to do away with the mega servers. Those of us who are intent on staying on our current servers despite queues can do nothing but wait for others to transfer for us.
And they are transferring. Queues on the locked mega servers have already dropped from 14-19k peaks last weekend to 10-12k peaks this weekend.
Wotlk launch will see another spike, but so long as the mega servers are locked down and free transfers off of them remain available, the situation will eventually be resolved.
This is what Blizzard has decided to do. This is their solution at this point in time. All those of us who wont transfer can do now is wait.
If they wanted to not have mega servers, then they should not have been greedy and let thousands of people transfer to servers like Grobbulous, Benediction, etc.
It is plain greed that led to this issue. They allowed it, now they are throwing out free transfers. Knowing full well that the crap servers they picked will eventually die.
Then they can double dip on that transfer money, because those left playing will transfer back out to a larger server again.