it’s amusing how everybody think that their ideas are awesome and will save their game, behaving that they have a clue how a huge project works and the logistics it needs. and all that from their parents basement petting their cat.
another day another “the economy is terrible” post, i wonder if this is the day that anyone explains why the economy is terrible
how is wanting fresh servers a private server thing? maybe people prefer classic over tbc?
When people talk about “Fresh” the core reason behind it is gold killing the market.
So instead, why don’t they just wipe gold back to 10G per character max when people move to classic era servers. then everyone is happy. 
Any item that isn’t soulbound wipe that too so people can’t stock items in their bags and bank.
Some people actually prefer crowded servers. Imo it beats the alternative. And if you think there is some perfect solution… Well… there isn’t. That’s life.
It’s not that your solution isn’t perfect. It’s that you haven’t offered any solution.
Where’s the load balancing?
I’m down to play on a fresh server mostly because leveling on a fresh realm is fun, it’s very hard to enjoy leveling on a progressed server where everyone is being boosted.
Playing on a server with good economy is just the icing on the cake.
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Just merge servers. I suspect it’s virtualized enough where you can merge servers with very little effort on blizzard’s part.
I mean there are even better solutions but people are really stubborn and probably wouldn’t agree to them. Like opting into a server population balancing system for example.
But aside from load balancing logic and I don’t see what hasn’t been solved entirely.
At this point blizzard should be releasing fresh servers slowly as to not create any more than absolutely necessary. And they should have done it yesterday.
Inb4 delusional shareholders start to complain
That doesn’t solve the population distribution problem.
Again, I’m not saying that your solution is flawed. I’m saying you’re not actually presenting a solution. There’s no load balancing happening in that case.
What is your solution for the inevitable development of imbalances in the population as players move around? Such solutions are required if you want to actually do any “load balancing.” Unless you can make some suggestions on that front, then your solution doesn’t actually exist.
Yes I get what you are saying… Load balancing would actually be best. The problem is you have to do it so that it doesn’t just become sharding.
It should never happen if a merge is feasible. Only as a last resort like when a server becomes comes 70% or more one faction (say horde) . At that point I would expect a mass dialog box to pop up on all realms that have overpopulated alliance asking them if they would like to swap to another realm to help out the community. They would be able to decline and even revert their decision once.
This is just brainstorming btw.
I think you can move individual players around who aren’t attached to their server or want a change. And it can be done rapidly and on rare occasions. You wouldn’t change servers very often. This would keep realms in a good state. You could also do something like create a new server and move only active players there. Then the inactives would be merged with other inactives.
You can only offer them the choice. If you force move people, they stop playing… which isn’t a solution.
And offering people a free transfer is already a thing blizzard does.
And how is that working out?
That is ONE reason, not the whole.
It has had an effect.
Yes but not everyone approves of it. And not everyone has to…
Balancing servers approach will never make everyone happy. Best you can do is approach it with a philosophy. I think any server where it’s 90% one faction is antithetical. Some people would disagree. Who should get to decide that?
Your approach is that you leave it up to individuals to balance servers and the net result is that people just quit the game. They will quit because they don’t want to go to other servers. The same way you might not feel like going to a party to meet new people but once you get there you end up staying and having more fun than you expected.
Fresh servers were launched with TBC and WotLK. Debate = over
https://wowwiki-archive.fandom.com/wiki/Timeline_of_the_creation_of_US_realms
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But will they just release fresh servers with paid boosts?
boost would be fine if you had a level 70 on that account or time gate
I haven’t offered an approach… and neither have you.
Let’s start with you. You are arbitrarily switched to some other server, with no choice about it. You can’t play with your guild or your 5-year-long friends any more. Is that okay with you?
That’s the only way to “balance populations”. And guess what? Players don’t want that.
I stopped reading your proposal after this bizarre insane idea.
Except that 50% of the players quit the game…