No, just not… The first set of free transfers were to every realm except the one being closed (with the added restriction of PvP to PvP and PvE to PvE if I remember correctly). That was why Benedictions, Feaerlina, and the like originally blew up. The second set of transfers were restricted and Benedictions, Faerlina, and the like were not transfer target. Grobbulus however was a transfer target both times.
Yes, they did. TBC had multiple free transfer periods. During the first transfer period you could go anywhere. The playerbase was actively pissed at that choice. Since instead of the smaller dying realms bolstering the medium pop realms, those players all flocked to the mega realms for free. During the second free transfer period, the mega realms were not destination options.
No one on these realms choose to stay, granted they did attempt to fight between the first and second free transfer period. You might be mixing that up with the Wrath Free Transfer period that happened with the queue times on the mega realms and the death of the Fresh Start Realms that came after that.
So instead of doing the thing that would actually benefit the players who want to World PvP by setting up free transfer to the realm that has World PvP.
They should instead… merge all the realms PvP (Read PvE) realms together then offer free transfer off that new PvP Relam to PvE realms. Resulting in killing any hope for World PvP to exist because you just killed Grobbulus in the merge.
In what way is that any different from my prediction based on past player behavior of the Alliance exodus occurring pretty much immediately? It honestly might be worse.
… What do you mean it wasn’t happening originally? Mono-faction realms? That happened in OG Classic. Benediction and Faerlina being Mono-faction? That was set in motion with the first free transfers of TBC that did allow people to transfer to them.
Hell Benediction and Faerlina were both 70+ one faction before that point.
Again choose to ignore that these realms are PvE. Grobbulus is the only PvP realm and they didn’t choose that.
That they did, and that is not the easy fix. That is the hard fix with a 99.9% failure rate.
At times it is, and at those point some World PvP is attempted by the Horde, but it just results in Alliance running… or just ignoring the situation entirely unless they are pulled into it.
Molten Front was such a joke. I watched as no Alliance players would engage in PvP outside of basically myself… It was just one Horde rogue ganking Alliance one at a time. Even then, I couldn’t get much World PvP myself as he refused to fight me. Would just run into the protected area whenever I was around.
Agreed, As much flavor as they add to the game, the drawbacks are so much worse I’d rather strip them from the game entirely.
Gonna have to disagree. Blizzard can’t force the players to do anything. The only thing they can force is the merging of realms and enforcing of faction balance on PvP realm.
Sure, they can refuse to allow Alliance players to transfer off or faction transfer on the newly merged realm, but that wouldn’t result in those Alliance players remaining there. It would result in them rerolling somewhere else or quitting the game entirely.
There is quite literally only so much Blizzard can do, and it is far to late for them to do most of it.