Hi Blizzard,
Its almost phase 2, most server populations dropped, and the worst part is some friends who you started playing with quit. It would be best to just leave paid server transfer on. You get money… LOTS OF IT! Also you will be doing fans a service they want. Its a win win. I have a 60 priest on another server I leveled with friends who don’t seem to be as active anymore. I would like to pay you free money.
Jesus
If I had to guess, I would think they will add them in phase 3.
By Phase 3 the pop will drop a lot on many realms and it will add ‘cross-realm’ pvp. With a cross-realm feature already in place, that would be the perfect time for them to add it.
at least 2/3 the servers are still overpopulated
I think maybe halfway through phase 2. Based on how Herod and Whitemane handle the removed phasing.
Paid transfers were added very late in Vanilla. If they are trying to re-create a comparable experiene, it would make sense for this feature to only become available in the later phases. Phase 5 or 6 is my guess.
I am not against this, it really doesn’t effect the Classic feel it only makes it so people can play with friends.
Honestly, since their time frame goal for transfers was when a ‘majority were max level’, I’d say 2-3 months.
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Me: Yea some servers are starting to die down. Def gana need some transfers here soon, paid or not.
Dude how do you have several level 60s already, go outside or something man Jesus Christ
Once you have a 60, it’s much easier to level an alt because you can transfer gold and leveling gear.
I’m guessing we’ll have paid transfers by the end of the year. By the end of March 2020 at the latest.
Nah man still sounds like this dudes been playing 8 hours a day since launch
What’s absolutely hilarious about this statement is that at the current phase of the game (launch of Dire Maul) there are currently more than double the number of people subbed and playing classic, than there were people subbed to vanilla at this stage of the game. Yet people are screaming “OMG dead servers!”. It really is quite hilarious to watch.
Source? Do you know what server I’m on? Have you seen my Orgrimar? Yikes imagine being in your own little world there champ.
Thing is, if they follow vanilla transfers, like I think they will to keep it “Authentic” it’ll be extremely limited.
No PvE to PvP
No transferring to high pop servers
Six month cooldown
Means it doesn’t really solve the lower pop server issue
The earnings report from blizzard stating that there was an over 200% increase in subs due to classic. Before WoW Classic, most estimates had the the retail subscriber count somewhere in the range of 1-2 million subs. 1.5×2.00 = 3. This is a ballpark figure, mind you.
Vanilla Wow didn’t hit 3 million subs until almost a year after launch.
Are you posting from your main? Pretty sure Thunderfury is still layered due to its overpopulation, so you are still only seeing half your realm’s population.
My realm is currently tagged as “layered” but my server is always medium.
That medium is still higher pop then a Vanilla server seeing as it’s still layered. Once they remove that layer though your realm should look a lot more populated.
I think they base layering on peak concurrent players so that would be during prime time and weekends/holidays.
It’s also something they don’t do dynamically, so once they know they can remove it, it’ll be gone.