It’s not gonna happen. No one in their right mind would transfer to, say, Old Blanchy just to be trapped there and have to pay Bobby’s yacht fee just to get off a dead server.
The only way you can possibly revive a dead server is if you create a system that shows how much interest there is.
How do you do it? I have no idea, this is a billion dollar company, they should be able to figure it out. But allowing free transfers to a dead server like OB can only be considered a cruel prank. There are some people out there who don’t understand the populations of servers. Completely cut off from forums and reddit, with no idea what ironforge.pro is.
It’s a shame, really, that those unlucky folks might accidentally make a $25 mistake.
Blizzard is really just punching the ball into the floor at this point.
Unfortunately, you can expect just this level of customer swindling from Blizzard. Blizzard created this bs problem in the first place, and now the uninformed will pay double for it by xferring to dead wasteland servers and then trying to remedy the error with $25.
The alliance population has significantly grown on sulfuras. It would totally be possible to make sulfuras a 50/50 pvp server if guilds committed to moving over
What server is dead? They did free transfers and killed off servers. Some of the bloat has transferred from the full servers and now half the others are overpopulated as well.
US East has two servers that are not occasionally having q times now.
Good news is that most of you folks will get bored with your new toy and move on. Eventually things will return to normal.
Actually it looks like some people are taking the transfers. I checked out Sulfuras last night at midnight and there were about 500 Alliance online, and something like 3,000ish Horde (estimating the Horde here but Alliance count was accurate). There was roughly 18,000 auctions posted, not bad. I don’t know if the faction balance will correct but maybe it’s a possibility if the transfers are open long enough.
I just counted up some of the numbers for Alliance on Sulfaras:
280 level 70’s online.
There’s actually an INSANE number of people leveling on that server. 34 people from level 1-5, 6-10 is 41 people; 11-13 is 42 people, level 60 returns 50 results which means 50 or more people level 60 are online Alliance on Sulfuras right now.
There’s probably around 1,200 Alliance online Sulfuras right now, I’m actually kinda shocked. 20,017 AH results.
I would wreck you hard if you came over on your Horde toon. I gank Horde left and right on my server. been getting about 600 to 1.1k hks every single day on this toon. I PvP on it 24/7.
Naming a toon Like it does arenas and mogged in the most popular S8 set for pallys. Yet you’ve never done one.
And why ask what server I am on when it auto shows what Classic server we are in when you reply to us. it is attached to out toon name.
Being a dead realm is a reason. A very important one. I swarm to the highest megaserver realms ONLY. Anything second to it, is dead in my eyes.
Also not a fan of one faction realms so i specifically chose grob for pvp since its the only one with enough players for my liking and balanced factions.
Coming from someone who plays on Blades Edge. There are only 25 full time active guilds on your server. Got over 1k hks today on this toon. Not done yet. I will probably have more HKs on this one single toon before the end of the year than you do on your entire account combined that has existed for many years. 100% willing to bet. I have been telling people to bring their Alliance guilds. My BG wins are 73% btw. So I am not doing too bad.
I dont play retail and i only chose that server for the name aesthetics like true chads do.
You dont have to brag to me, as i dont care about your online achievements. I only play this to have fun, and the only place im having fun on is grob. Ill quit in a month after launch probably just out of boredom.
Well you dont appear to play Classic either cuz you are back to back posting on a non classic toon about classic… in a classic forum. Pretty sure almost ANY of these class posters here would wreck you in open world pvp or just by topping over you in charts any raid…
Oh see that orc is from Illidan. Illdan and A52 wreck everything else by a long shot. Those two servers alone have a bigger economy than most MMOS entire server economy combined.