Probably the only way you’re going to incite guilds and friends (the reasons people are staying on overpopulated servers) to get on the new lower pop servers that were created after launch. Right now there is little incentive, as the communities have been established for the pre-existing realms. But if the option to transfer for free server wide were to open, it’s more likely people would take it than trying to organize a mass reroll among their community. Opening server transfers is a quick and easy fix to help balance things if it’s doable. Agree? Disagree?
Edit: Without server transfers new low pop realms will most likely become ghost towns, while high pop servers stick with queues. Players are too afraid to reroll on low pop servers right now, for fear of the low pop server dying, transfers would allieviate this.
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Yea, i wont switch servers unless i get to play with my friends still.
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Exactly, and I know the only way it would even come up as a discussion among my friends at least would be if a transfer was offered.
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Disagree. You know how many years retail has been asking for free server xfers and people want it for Classic on day one?
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It’s quite pointless to have transfers for level <10 characters. Just reroll!
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Ok, but with sharding there aren’t really imbalanced servers on retail, and are there even any queue times? One is a desire the other is a solution to an existing problem.
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AOO would disagree with you. If you don’t know what it is, look it up. Alliance has had it for a while now. And imbalanced realms have been a thing forever, people asked for free xfers.
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Try to get an entire guild, or a vanilla server community, that planned to play on a specific server before launch to reroll.
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And for those of us with >10 characters? Are we supposed to throw our investment away?
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Alright, so your argument is that classic shouldn’t get free transfers because retail hasn’t gotten free transfers? Duly noted. XD
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Well yea, it’s day one. If people can’t re-roll, are they really decent guildies/friends?
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Blizzard has been telling everyone on full servers to go to new servers. So they’re not going to offer free transfers on Day 1.
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Fair, but what’s your reasoning? How would you balance the populations between servers?
Anybody know if we roll on a low-pop server, can we pay for Transfer to high or full pop in a week or two?
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The reason people aren’t leaving is because they’re dedicated to their guild and friend groups who have chosen a “full” server.
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They’ve addressed this in the Q&A, a couple of times. Here’s one of them.
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Nah, they can enjoy the queue.
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Wow, interesting! Didn’t know about that, thanks for sharing! (Accidentally deleted previous reply saying this lol)
Then you just live with the queue. I mean you would be behind a few hours or a day or two at most. By the time you get to your 30s and 40s, a few days would mean nothing, will mean even less if your goal is to speed level into endgame raiding with your friends.
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