Over the next 2-3 months, we’re going to connect the low-population realms to other existing realms. This process will take place during scheduled maintenance, connecting a few realms each week, until we’ve connected every low-population realm in every region to a substantially larger population of players.
Even High population realms such as Hyjal were considered low enough population to be connected. They had planned to connect Hyjal to Proudmoore, which is a Full server:
The only update we had on the situation was this random tweet:
No reason was given why they abruptly ceased their realm connections before even coming close to their stated goal. After I repeatedly bumped the original thread asking for an update, it was closed with not a word from Blizzard. Unlike a lot of people, I don’t think Blizzard makes a habit of lying and I believe their employees generally tell the truth.
Not here. As it stands right now, with no clarification in over a year and a half; they lied to us. They didn’t even have the decency to spend two minutes telling all of us on our dead realms that they apparently changed their minds. We have dozens of dead servers; my server cluster of 5 servers has around 80 TOTAL players online right now, both factions combined. It’s been 1 year and 7 months since they made public their intentions to merge EVERY LOW POPULATION REALM TO A SUBSTANTIALLY LARGER ONE.
They didn’t connect Hyjal and Proudmoore then because there were a lot of people still on our servers. It’s a different story now of course but there were too many to connect it then. So they decided against it. It’s always something they can revisit later. I’d prefer if they did it that they do it before they release another expac so any surge along with the release of the expac doesn’t create instability issues.
These realms see little to no progress, even though they’re already connected.
I made this last month, just looking at old realm population for rp servers.
Wyrmrest Accord is one such realm that suffered the last expansion greatly. Alliance are all essentially vacant on the entire realm now.
They straight up said that they considered Hyjal low enough to be connected and decided on Proudmoore. I think it’s likely they ultimately decided against the connection because there were a ton of Proudmoore players coming into the thread claiming their LGBT positive community they built over the years would be disrupted by connecting them to another server.
Either way, there’s server clusters out there right now with less than 100 players online at prime-time. There’s server clusters that have been dead for more than half a decade. They stated a goal, that goal was never met and they never gave us an update. I think it’s a good time for Blizzard to give us an update after 1 year and 7 months.
You have 20-50 people that really like that low pop realm, so it could mess things up for them lol.
At this point you could connect all low and medium pop servers and make another megaserver.
Keep a few unconnected “Highs” because those servers are actually pretty low. That will be good enough for all the people that want to play this as a single player RPG for some reason.
You missed the follow up article to it. Where they found that it was too populated yet to do it and they’d reconsider it at another time. We were mid population at the time. Not high or low. And Proudmoore is high. And a lot of players Horde side had concerns with a mid pop server of mostly Horde merging with a high pop server of mostly Alliance.
Do they did not do it. But they did say they’d revisit it.
A lie is an intentionally false statement. Not being able to follow through on what you said you were going to do because of some unforeseen technical problem isn’t a lie.
There’s no possible way you can know this. Did you /who every zone in the game?
Lower doesn’t mean low. We were mid population then. That was when Shadowlands was gonna come out. And lots more were playing because of the expac hype. Again, they’ll likely look at it again. I do not want to be on an Alliance dominated server. At least not while tagged mobs aren’t shared.
How do you know they weren’t able to follow through? They fixed their mistake and never told us that was the reason for the connections being stopped. The tweet didn’t say the connections were on hold, it said they were finished. Stop making excuses for them.
To be honest, I don’t think connecting dead realms is the solution. Connecting multiple dead realms together just equates to one massive dead cluster.
Rather, with 9.2.5 and the introduction of cross faction play, I hope they eventually just extend guilds and communities to be global and cross-faction instead of server specific.
There can’t be many people left to milk transfer money from at this point. They need to just merge the dead realms into high pop realms. As someone else said merging dead realms into dead realms doesn’t solve anything. There’s no benefit in playing on a dead realm anymore and there’s no reason why dead realms should still be a thing in a game that is based on being social. At least in theory.
