This isn’t a “the game is dying” thread; we’ve see the numbers and they don’t really matter to those of us who will choose to keep playing.
What matters is what happens to realm populations. My realm, Ysera-Durotan is desolate. There is no one to talk to and the only ones talking are trolls, and at least one that I think actually plays several alt accounts to talk with. That and the pairing was not well received, the two sides don’t really interact and guilds didn’t seem to want to comingle.
So, is there any way to flag down the Devs and maybe get them to transfer people from one realm into another, shelve those realms and then hook up another combined realm to it (4 into 2).
Having high populations would be nice, for a change.
There is a rumor going around that it’s under 1 million now. But I have not seen anything official floating around that confirms any sort of number for WoW.
they should merge realms and idk how shards work/layers but if possible reduce them as well so world feels more lively. i been leveling my new main through story mode in SL. i literally see so few people if any even with flying ( i don’t have flying ). i go to oribos i see tons of people.
my guess is they do this and don’t want to remove these things because when a new expac drops it will cause latency issues and que times. of the entire expac duration though that is such a short time not even including people who quit and come back or only come to play the new expac for like the first month then quit.
Completely agree. Shu’halo/Eitrigg are in a similar position. We were completely ignored last year during the realm connection frenzy, where other realms of similar size were favored for connections. I think my guild name on this character says it all.
Realm mergers will kill this game. Please stop asking for them.
Every MMO that has merged realms has started a chain reaction that ultimately kills the game, either outright, creating a complete shutdown, or resulting in a population dive so massive that only a tiny portion of the playerbase remains. Which is normally followed by the MMO going F2P.
It happened to Star Wars: The Old Republic
It happened to RIFT
It happened to Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning
It happened to Everquest and Everquest 2.
It happened to Age of Conan
It happened to Wildstar
They can create more Connections, but there really isn’t a good reason to take them out after they’ve been fully integrated into a new system.
I’m sorry you dislike the realm, but if you’re that unhappy, you’ll want to server transfer. Personal preference of the people talking in chat isn’t going to get a realm erased from your Connection.
Easy to say when you play on a full server like Moon Guard.
Like it or not, Blizzard has been merging realms since 2013. They are called Connected Realms. Blizzard merged a large amount of realms last year, but forgot quite a few.
Wildstar didn’t die from realm mergers. Wildstar died from incompetent management who were actively sabotaging their own developers and poor vision by focusing too much on sweaty try hards who thought that an mmo could be sustained on elitist mentality without catering to your bread and butter player-base aka casuals.
Tomato, tomato. When I say “merging,” I mean connecting. It’s all semantics, and you’re picking apart arguments based on a small difference in a word’s meaning.
If I said connect all the realms, would you disagree?
Connect realms? No I wouldn’t disagree, because it’s not a case of tomato tomato.
Let’s say you were named Shuhalo on your realm, and I was named Shuhalo on my realm. Then Blizzard decided to connect our realms. Nothing would change. You would still be Shuhalo, and you’d appear as Shuhalo-Shuhalo where as I would appear as Shuhalo-Moon Guard.
Let’s say we also had the same guild name, again your guild name would be Connect Our Realm Please-Shuhalo while my guild would be Connect Our Realm Please-Moon Guard. Again, there would be no changes. Any people you had on your friends list that weren’t Battle.Net or R.ID friends would also stay right where they are.
But here’s what happens in the case of a merger.
If your character is younger than my character, you would be forced to change your character name. If your guild was younger than my guild, your guild would be forced to change its name. Your realm community and mine would no longer exist as separate entities, so every guild you knew, unless they had unique names or older names, would be gone. Every character you knew, unless they had unique or older names would have their names changed.
Ultimately, it would alienate the players of the merged realms, and they’d quit, which is exactly what has happened every other time an MMO has merged realms.
I am not in favor of completely eliminating realms. But I would like Blizzard to continue connecting. This will be my crusade until I see my friends left behind on Shu’halo and Eitrigg be able to experience the game with a healthy realm population.
Yep, connecting is fine, and IMO, Blizzard could stand to connect more low pop realms together along with some medium pop realms. I am 100% okay with that.
But I am 100% opposed to realm mergers. I’ve been playing MMOs long enough to see this pattern unfold over and over and over again. If they had done what Blizzard is doing, many of those MMOs would still be around today and with healthy populations.
If you play say 20+ hours a week you can make a character on that realm.