What I want cannot be given to me.
I want to see Blizzards data. I want to see real numbers and not numbers of raiders who logged a parse. If a server has tons and tons of casuals they may never show up in ironforgepro. So to see actual populations you need help from Big Blue… that won’t ever happen.
O sure, it would be interesting to see raw numbers to reach conclusions and actually have something other than conjecture to work from.
Sadly we dont. Companies pay millions to guess at what their competitions data says. No company is gonna give that away for free.
Data I’d like to see.
Number of alliance
Number of horde
Number of PvP
Number of PvE
Number of Casual.
If you are only using data points from specific groups or players you will end up tossed with many extra players accidentally who are not known about.
No it was not cross realm zones. It was 2 servers merged together into one single server that had both playerbases of each server now on one single home server. It was a textbook server merge and that is how they handled the names: in the same way that the names are displayed for players on a different server in a battleground.
The merged servers share the same auction house and guilds, you can trade and party for heroic/mythic groups, etc. They did do it in retail and that is how they handled the names and it was never a problem.
They didn’t merge anything, the realms are connected. Crz is still part of the solution but since realms are connected you can trade and use same ah while retaining your name.
Package transfers at a discounted rate announced on twitter yesterday… They will monetize the ever living poo out of the mergers.
Bump
Just our money.
The only language Blizzard truly understands
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
I’m finally convinced that Blizzard will do nothing with Classic. Joke’s on us. And to those paying for Character transfers, Blizzard is laughing at us all the way to the bank.
Bravo Blizzard.
So unfortunately people will have to change their names.
A small price to pay for salvation.
No they did not. They connected them. That’s not merging.
CRZ is just adding Surnames we can’t pick ourselves. Change my mind.
It is basically the same thing.
Well connecting means you don’t have to change your name, merging means you would.
or… they could let you implement surnames… which is essentially what connecting is. Trunchbull Earthfury.
Never been a fan of surnames in games but yea that would work.
Don’t let these posts and topic die. Just doing what Blizz support said to do. And I’ll keep doing it until my time ends.
Doing exactly what Customer Service said to do. Post in the forum.
BUMPING
So the blind, silent, deaf, DEVS can see that my realm wasn’t the only one that died.
Customer Service closed my ticket but I’m not letting these post get lost in the void.
What is your response to this BLIZZ?
It is not CRZ.
They connected realms. That means, you can have guilds with players from different connected realms.
CRZ is a different thing on retail.]
CRZ means you can play with people from different realms, but you can’t send gold or trade items with them, similar to Battlegrounds.
Connected realms is a good idea, but can cause more problems over time.
Cool adding 20 extra people to Herod lol
dont merge servers = game dies
simple as that.
is it fair to all the people stuck on dead servers? those people will be forced to quit if they cant afford to xfer. why should they pay to xfer if the game is dying, they started on and chose a healthy server, they did nothing wrong.
the rich people can afford to xfer and they will do it out of desperation to play.
how many loyal wow players are still left? does blizzard care about us?
1000-2000 players transfered from Herod to Benediction in the last few months.
25$ per xfer multiply 1000 = $25,000. thats a lot of instantaneous money.
stop deleting my posts. it contains no profanity or offensive content. I am merely speaking facts
it seems like my posts are being policed. so i ll have to post on reddit.
please email me and tell me exactly what i said that was offensive and why my post was deleted 3 times.
is my post being deleted because i said blizzard is being sued by the state of California and that is keeping them too busy from fixing their games from dying?
anyways here is a little recap of my post that was being deleted.
the idea is that we have to look at the state of the gaming industry as a whole. look at blizzard as a company, the state of the economy, activision who is running blizzard and investors who truly drive all their decisions.
we as players arent asking for a lot. we just want a game thats playable.
99% horde: 1% alliance servers is not acceptable. I said this 10 year ago that they needed a “server migration option or bundle discount to spend 50-75$ to MOVE ALL CHARACTERS to a new server”
they did finally merge all CLASSIC ERA servers into WHITEMANE but that took too long. took them over 3-5 months and the state of that population is no longer healthy. its been a ghost town for months. and they think dividing the playerbase even more with SEASONS OF MASTERY is a good idea.
i previously said:
-the gaming industry itself has major issues.
-wow was amazing in 2004 because there was 0 competition but the market now is oversaturated.
-people have a harder choice where to put their time and money now
-microtransactions, preordering, early access cancellation scams, pay2win models
-mobile games ruined the market and every developer is targetting whales
-subscription model isnt enough money anymore.
-many games are released unfinished
-many companies wont even make PC games anymore, everything is console ports
-blizzard has multiple failed or dying franchises and have been on a decline over the years
is this really offensive or a fact
-tried to charge 35$ for classic era clones and backpedalled to 15$
-sc2 tried to sell voice packs
-hearthstone tries to make you buy a new set every 2 months
-basically means Classic WoW is very low on their radar in terms of overall income, so we are not a priority to them. but what choice do we really have
remember the days when you buy SC1, WC2, D2 for 39.99 and they lasted you 10 years, remember when blizzard made masterpiece legendary games. remember when wow had 14 million subs. remember when entire stadiums in korea watched starcraft tournaments.
anyways lets see what happens to this company and the gaming industry. they can keep ignoring us but see how long that lasts.
we as gamers have to get smarter. do research, watch reviews, talk to friends, play betas, watch streams, read forums. never preorder (notice how many games die in the first month).
Too long, didn’t read bro.
Your argument doesn’t matter.