Would anyone be opposed to Blizzard adopting a “Megaserver” system?
Say for example, instead of picking a server when first starting out, you selected your desired playstyle (PvP, PvE, RP) and then you were placed into that playstyle’s megaserver.
Instead of Wyrmrest Accord and Moonguard, they would both be merged into the “RP” megaserver.
Also I’ve played games with a mega server. They require a much more spread out or lower pop than WoW. Otherwise the performance starts to fall apart fast.
It simply wouldn’t work with wow, given all it would do is cram even more people into a small area and cause more lag. Along with guilds and the like would simply dissolve as their part of the server and community their on.
They could do a megaserver but not much would change. You’d still have clusters, shards, channels or whatever you want to call it. A single server can only handle so many players in an area at any given time. As for naming and communities little would change. You would still roll your character on a “server” and it would stay the same as now.
The only real difference you would notice is that you’d see people from all servers instead of those in your battlegroup. I’d imagine the chat would be a complete disaster of constant spam with so many players in it. Would it make the game better? I honestly do not think so. The so called “communities” in wow are already terrible to begin with and this would most likely just make it worse. Then again nothing stops you from playing with people from other servers or making communities of your own in the game with said people.
I would be opposed to that. Server merging has completely ruined the fun of being able to farm, and gather on your “own” server, without server hoppers, huge bot populations, among other things.
Also if someone was a real ahole on your server they would get blackballed from raids, pugs, and other community events etc. People actually had etiquette on their servers.
The community events, world Pvp groups going after the opposite faction cities and the like were fun when WoW started. I’ve not seen that in over 12 years, and I’ve been on several servers.
People can already go to silverhand, moonguard, and other servers for RP.
Lets not make WoW servers like BDO, Tera and other games.
OP, what you are thinking, it may seem like a good idea, but trust me, it is not. The “Mega Servers” are known to actually destroy the game and its community. It is a terrible idea.