Yep, because what happens is what happened with moving people around in Classic. Servers became either Horde or Alliance dominated over night. People requested to be moved around elsewhere and in the end nothing really changed.
We don’t know it just stopped being accurate. You can /who and a person you know that you are playing with isn’t there. The belief is that it was broken on purpose when they stopped wanting to report sub numbers.
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Back before Shadowlands they announced a program to connect lots of realms. They suddenly and quietly stopped after what happened in the video, which took them a couple of weeks to straighten out. I think they found an engineering problem that was too big to deal with.
Blizzard made the automatic SendWho() a protected function. Addons can still use hardware input (left and right mouse clicks) to send ManualWho() requests. Players can still search accurately with /who commands.
If you /who 1-60 and it returns 20 players online, that’s how many are online. I’m not going to argue conspiracy theories about Blizzard secretly breaking their api.
I agree.
I normally don’t think Blizzard owes the players, well, anything, but given that they did state certain intentions and then failed to follow thru, I think in this instance they do owe their customers an explanation, an update and possible future adjustments.
They also need to address transfers bundles.
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You can do or not do what you want, but there have been many posts over how broken it’s been over the years.
If they feel the need to connect realms they will. But again, I do not want connected with an Alliance dominated realm. At all.
Connecting and moving people around forcefully just creates the issue that Classic servers have already had. Which was people ending up on servers that became either Horde or Alliance dominated overnight. People then requested to be moved after. So all the moving around and connecting would be for nothing.
I don’t believe it would show players under level 10. Just checked a character on a low-pop realm that is generally CRZ’d with busy realms. There are 34 players online.
They should connect all the realms and be done with it. Like, 10 years ago.
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On Modern WoW, anything below level 20 is excluded from the list. I’m going to assume it’s so unpaid trial accounts aren’t included in the /who results. Funny, considering another poster claimed they broke /who so people couldn’t accurately determine subcount.
Well first it’s capped so you would only see 50 at the most.
Second I play on Ravenholdt 
If you look at this picture you’ll see me, Maxwell 
and you see my name in the /who for 1-60, you also see my (involuntary 
) volunteer Lyra but she isn’t in the /who
Try it yourself 
If you can find someone on your realm who isn’t in /who then you’ll know no one is making up conspiracy theories.
You will only display characters in your faction. Some realms I play on show 50 of one faction (so capped) but fewer of the other. The lowest pop realm I have a character on shows 18 horde characters online at this moment.
I know, that’s why the first place I went to check was Stormwind, if you’ve been in the Mage Tower (in Stormwind) you’ll recognize that’s where I’m at.
I’m not arguing that Ravenholdt is secretly a high pop cluster, I know it isn’t, that’s exactly why I chose it Well that’s not entirely true I chose it because it is low pop and it USED TO not be CRZ’d 
Blizz of course fixed that so now it’s a trash CRZ realm like all other realms.
I’m only saying that you can’t entirely trust /who. After I took the screenshot I linked above I went to Oribos to see if I could find other players not in /who. I saw a guy who wasn’t in /who and when I specifically searched for his name he didn’t show up either x_x
You are completely spreading false information for what reason, I’m unsure? Just to make Blizzard look bad I guess? They connect realms just fine and have done it since that video.
If you scroll down in the comments:
“Its a known issue called the khadgar realm glitch. What happens is for some people on the khadgar realm there characters are being reverted to an earlier point or they have there deleted characters restored for some reason. You can read more about it here Characters deleveled - Khadgar If it happened to you make sure you submit a ticket and let blizzard know.”
It was a character issue that happened more specifically on that realm, yes that is bad, but it was solved in less than a week. Madseason video didn’t even have anything to do with realms lol.
What is the purpose of making it seem like Blizzard still struggles with realm connections? Or making it seem like a Madseason video is the main reason for well, anything?
Prior to this incident they announced realm connections just before they happened, which was weekly. After this they no longer did. People who were expecting to have their realms connected have since complained they were not. So I’m looking for your source that you know new realm connections took place, since a program that they had given a lot of information on suddenly went silent.
That was a realm connection issue. I’m not sure why you are misrepresenting it.
Link to your source. I mean, aside from youtube comments that don’t disprove anything I have written.
Why Stormwind? I checked simultaneously on 2 characters on Ravencrest, one in Storm Peaks and one in Kun-Lai Summit. They both showed 30 Horde characters online. The list was the same.
Does the /who command only work for your own faction?
I just did /who twilight and it showed I am the only player in twilight highlands but I can clearly see a horde druid farming volatile water at the head of the river.
Psst, you can scroll down in the /who list.
Yeah.
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So I could be lazy and know for a fact whoever I saw was part of my faction The goal wasn’t to see how many people /who showed but to find someone who didn’t show up in /who.
/who has been broken for a good while now for reasons unknown and it’s a known fact, It’s not some crazy conspiracy theory.
It often won’t “find” your actual friends or guildies who are literally standing right in front of you, who you know for a fact they are very much online.
Just search the keyword /who on this forum and you will see multiple threads confirming this issue.
Also, this. ↓
Yes, connecting them may have helped the economy a bit than before, but absolutely NOT the raiding scene for the formerly dead server clusters.
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Psst, or sort it alphabetically
Connect ALL realms.