Argent Dawn US is dead.
It was medium population when I joined, and I used to see a lot of people online, at all hours. I even joined a very active guild, but that all changed when the classic servers dropped. There is maybe 50 people online at any one time, and my guild that used to have 300+ active members is just me and 3 other people who never talk to each other.
I’ve been grinding and farming gold for the last couple months to get enough gold to transfer my 6 characters off of the server. Only problem with that is my server’s auction house is so dead, I haven’t been able to sell a single bloodstained bone in the last 2 weeks.
I do not blame classic players for wanting to play a better game, I just want blizzard to realize that dead servers is a bad thing, maybe a merger is in order, or hell, give people who are stranded with no raiding teams or a dead auction house free character transfers to a higher population server.
Is there a point to this or am I just talking to myself?
Anything below Full Pop (at the very least during primetime hours) is questionable in terms of long-term health.
Blizzard has changed the thresholds for those statuses multiple times over the years. High Pop used to be a lot healthier than it is today. Medium and Low have always been in bad places.
That aside, yeah, Blizzard has the means of merging more servers without issue. That was literally the point of Connected Realms. But it feels like they internally decided to pretend that never happened or something, because we’ve needed TONS more connections basically since they first happened. They never did enough to begin with and things have only gotten worse since then.
I don’t really expect solutions like free transfers off low pop realms. That accomplishes nothing but making the situation worse for the people who stay, and unless they literally shut down the server, there will always be people who stay.
This is a bummer, man. But remember that most people left until 8.3 where there’s a fresh feel to the game again. It might pick up a bit around January .
Yep. Low pop = Deader than dead. Medium = Dead. High = Dead half the time. Full = Dead because sharding dumps you with low pop realms. Moral of the story, roll an rp server but stay the hell away from goldshire.
I was on an alt and talking to someone who came back to the game after they left sometime around the end of MOP. They were hoping to sell a pet to get some gold because they were poor. I was willing to give them a small amount to get them started, but warned them that the server we were on, which was already merged, was dead.
I’m probably in the only active guild on that server, and it’s a Low pop server. I basically warned them that they’d probably want to start over on a different server if they wanted to do anything. I felt bad because they said they had a bunch of Horde alts on this Low server and decided to try Alliance on it too. The server was pretty active in MOP. I transferred there in MOP to raid.
Breaks my heart to see servers so empty anymore. The servers need bolstered.
They kind of broached this subject at Blizzcon about server connections…we shall see what happens. I wouldn’t expect anything before 8.3 and the new AH is launched. The economic death of the servers (i play on both small and large/full servers) is not something new. Small servers die after the few weeks of a patch, they always do. But with the introduction of Classic and players migrating there it has made the problem worse then it normally is.
Honestly there should have been server consolidation a long time ago. Along with that they should have implemented last names or a historical name tied to your toons (like SWtoR did) to prevent people from not being able to get the names they want…but i am sure it is a low priority if ever.
They should merge the servers and they should take away cross-realm. I’ve been playing classic, and it is really nice to see the same people all over the place. In retail, if I see anyone, I never see them again.
But what you’re also seeing is a lull between content patches. These were usually pretty good for reducing the playerbase long before Classic came out.
They might be for a lack of a better term ( Embellishing)
But its a real problem that needs to be addressed imo…granted its a no win situation for blizzard
I get that…they meager servers and wow is dying goes into hyperdrive…and then the but my name crowd…ETC…
But in the long trem it hurts wow more imo…people come back and see that there server for the most part is dead…
So they should just suck it up and have a hard time finding a guild on there server that raids at there time or have people on to do stuff…ETC
Sometimes you have to take advice from the song the gambler in regards on staying on a dead server
You’ve got to know when to hold 'em
Know when to fold 'em
Know when to walk away
And know when to run
