yet, in on a large populated server that will be a long terrm detriment. and will give a poor experience. but again never mind that. Layers do not hurt the game. that person is still on the same server. if you posted in LFG trade or whatever general chat for whatever zone you’re in you can still find that person and group with them. your argument against layers is weak almost strawmanlike.
Again this is BLIZZARDS solution. and its not a solution. it isn’t. it never has been. its BLIZZARDS issue to fix by telling people to get out. it ultimately tells them they are unwilling to address the problem. we the players should not fix the problem for blizzard. why are you so willingly sucking the teet of Blizzard when they can come up with a solution that doesn’t fracture the player base. the answer should never to be leave your server. that is a bad response. again, i say this to the players its not our responsibility to accept a band aid for a gushing or gaping wound. it doesn’t fix or resolve the problem. it just gives the illusion of fixing the problem. you should be demanding that they find a way to resolve this issue. and hte reason they are giving out server transfers to other servers is because it is far more cheaper than actually having to put money back into their servers. multi-billion dollar company. they can afford to spend money on new servers.
Even non mega servers have been found on these forums complaining about the lag in key zones. this isn’t a mega server issue. so again this is a strawman.
Least we can find common ground on one thing briefly.
I do. i think they are entirely wrong. I would love to have everyone be a part of benediction that wanted to be on this server. But i do not want queue times to play on my server, i don’t want my experience to be laggy when i’m in key zones.
but the biggest problem with you wanting healthy population distrubted across realms is never going to happen. like ever. won’t happen. can’t happen. because once they lift the locks on some of these locked servers. you will see people throw money at leaving their server. this is why above all the issues that we could talk about with anything to relating to this current iteration of wrath plus at this point. server transfers and soon to be faction transfers are incredibly toxic to this idea you have proposed. it will make it oh so too easy to abandon your server, get offered a spot on else on the horde faction? 25 bucks and you’re gone. no consequences only thing lost is maybe an hour or two of play to abandon your old server, faction or both. lets not forget about name changes.
again, the players have spoken they do not want to disperse they don’t want what blizzard wants for them. blizzard has said we want you to play in this 4x4 sand box. the players have rejected this and found swingsets as well. regardless of whether that creates large servers or not. Blizzard has been rejected. they need to stop trying to get players to play the way they want. look at retail there are like 6 key servers for retail. Hyjal, Area-52, Illidan, Stormrage, proudmoore, and Sargeras. these are the servers i remember. on horde they seem to be the same proudmoore seems to be the same. nice fat and huge. players have rejected being stranded on a server they dislike for a vastly more populated server. i’ve left servers that have died because the top guilds abandoned the servers i was on. again faction and server transfers are cancerous to the health of servers. especially since they made guild transfers.
Sharding should have never happened in retail and should not wrath plus. Sharding is far more annoying that layers are. in a singular hour, i had jumped between 4 different shards in retail. least when with layers only time i hoped a layer was when i joined a group for a quest or dungeon. again blizzard doesn’t want to come up with legitimate solutions. stop enabling them with poor decisions and solutions. push back. they are unwilling at this point. not incapable.