it’s not about authenticity
we know some changes are good
but here’s the thing
your suggestions
yes, YOURS specifically
are almost always very bad.
Yeah, another one.
But I figure I may as well put in my CTA on this as well.
Please please please do something to resolve the issue with low population. Whether that be free transfers, or server mergers. Something needs to be done, and soon. Else I’ll have to take my money elsewhere.
There are numerous low population realms in TBC Classic that are almost akin to a single player experience, that have been abandoned by Blizzard for far too long. The fact we play $15 a month for this experience without any developer support is quite disappointing, although we love this game and our tight-knit communities nonetheless. We have previously found these types of servers are appealing to those that want something similar to the old days of WoW, free of the issues that plague some of t…
Our server is basically dead. We were one of the only servers to go 100% horde after all of the alliance left for Bene. I’m not saying we aren’t to blame for them leaving, I’m just left with this bitter taste in my mouth after the numbers drop below 2500 active players.
My guild tried pugging Gruul last night and we called it after getting together a group 9 TOTAL. There are zero heroic dungeon groups, and even less pug groups. The server an abysmal black mess.
Our guild is 5/6 SSC 3/4 TK but …
I play on the server Kirtonos for TBC classic and the population has been getting worse and worse for months now. It’s a PvP server that once had a fair split for ally to horde. The alliance now does not even have enough to do a single 25 man raid.
Now full guilds are transferring off the server and what was once a medium/high population server is now extremely low with more guilds transferring soon.
We should not be forced to pay more money so that we can improve the quality of our gameplay. …
Dear Blizzard Devs,
I’m writing this in hopes of getting your attention to make a change that would support a more active and thriving WoW community and in tandem, also being beneficial as an additional revenue source for Blizzard.
There are countless forum posts that have appealed for no restrictions between PVE to PVP servers as the reasons for it are irrelevant.
Let me share the link to where you can find the countless forum posts here:
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/search?q=pve%2…
Keep the CD that doesn’t bother me but let me transfer wherever I want to now, it’s beyond a joke at this point. The sky is falling so you might as well give us all the things that is going to fill your pockets Blizzard.
Why not just merge Benediction and Herod and make it a 50/50 realm?
No reason for pvp servers to be 100% of one faction… Kind’ve stupid tbh.
Transferred twice since tbc as alliance side keeps dying for some reason. I’m not here to keep your stock afloat for the next year while you have a new content drought. Sub runs out in 3 days, im done.
Is there a reason besides “It wasn’t allowed till LK” this doesn’t exist?
I understand back in the day they thought people would hop on the chance to lvl on the “easier” PvE server than switch but…I really don’t think it matters now.
Would be cool to play the chars I created to game with some of my friends that have since quit instead of just having them sit there. I mean I do have plenty to play now but would still be cool.
More transfer money from Blizz and PvE might lose a couple “toxic” p…
Server states
When do you plan on doing something about all of the dead servers? Enough is enough, stop counting the transfer money and start fixing the problem. There are several servers that are ‘dead’ for one faction and a small group of players are stuck there. The raidloggers on IF tell a pitiful story, and now that I am on a dead realm, I can accurately say that it is much worse. 400 raid loggers is less than 200 active players.
This is not a ‘player made issues’. Removing queues, addin…
No raids no healers tanks no 1 to play with people keep transfering off server, please just merge server groups like Classic did so we can actually play with more then 2000 people.
Yes!!!
We need server balance something harsh!!!
My server along with many others are suffering from lack of population, making it very hard to find groups to run dungeons and raids.
Please combine all the low pop and medium pop servers with each other to solve this problem.
Blizzard, come on…offer free transfers off low pop servers or merge them together. You have intentionally created a bad play experience and do nothing about it other than charge players to fix it. It shouldn’t be put to the player base to manage the server population. Smolderweb only has few hundred players left on the server at this point.
I logged into my server this morning (Smolderweb) hoping to do some briefest stuff. Shat is completely empty as is Org. Even at peak times there are less than 200 people logged in. I have several toons and 70 and not paying $25 bucks to move to a new server as this is not a player created issue.
Sorry for yet another dying server thread, but Blizz needs to hear it from every single person paying them money. I gave up on WoW back during Cata as I didn’t like the direction the game was going. I went a few years without the crack and started playing free private servers of the WoW I use to love. Now I am willingly give my money back to Blizz because they created legit Classic WoW and again I’m considering looking back into private servers or just quitting all together because populations o…
Update 2021-12-03
Alliance Population: 16987 (83.1%)
Previous: 16838 (0,88%)
Horde population: 3461
Previous: 4514 (-23,33%)
Update 2021-11-17
Alliance Population: 16838 (79.6%)
Previous: 15291 up 10,11%
Horde population: 4312 (20.4%) …
I don’t know about you but I’ve played since classic launch and have paid blizzard at least 250 to play their game, on top of that I payed for a character boost so 320 a minimum. And now that I have a dead server blizzard want me to pay another 25 dollars a toon, when I have 4 that I would need to transfer. When I reached out to them about my problem, they said to post here to see if it has gets steam, and they might do something. I don’t know where they learned customer service from, but this s…
Dear Blizzard,
As we all know you merged OCE+NA realms for BGs and arena at the beginning of the TBC prepatch and caught a lot of backlash, eventually resulting in a reversion of the changes.
At the time many Australian based players believed that there would be a large arena player base and that they’d be able to live their dream of re-playing arena with 20 ping instead of 400.
It seems pretty clear that this was a mistake.
5v5 arena can only be queued on certain days and ONLY at night time…
Hey blizzard, thanks for introducing level boosts. The game now feels dead from levels 1-50 on Arugul OCE. Can you at least merge oce pvp servers so there are more people playing on one server and the game actually feels like wow. There are many reasons it isnt fun leveling in empty zones. One of them is world pvp which is the reason I started playing wow in the first place. Also remove micro transactions from tbc thanks Blizzard!
This needed to happen first week of season 1.
The fact that this went live was a mistake.
Participation will increase if this change is made. I don’t care how you have to do it just make it happen. If you have to ditch the team charter system and use a personal rating type system like retail then do it.
Arena needs it. Bad.
Currently you cannot team up with players on different realms. This is extremely restrictive and is definitely a major contributor to players having difficulties finding …
Almost all MMO’s do this. Layering is already a thing and this would fix so many more problems than it would create. Spot camped? Switch servers on the fly.
Reasons against merging all servers.
1. Community. Your community isn’t going anywhere in fact you will have an even bigger community.
2. Cohesion/immersion. HvH and layers make this argument invalid.
3. Malice. Just because your server and your niche is fine doesn’t mean everyone who plays is.
4. Greed. Blizzard loves to make…
Added all this to the original post. Anyone else see a trend?
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Obligatory: “You didn’t really play WoW back in the day, did you?”
There are a lot of dumb people on the forums, but Kumasama is really pushing to cement himself as the dumbest.
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“Stop pretending you care about authenticity.”
I’ve never cared about authenticity. I cared about vanilla and TBC simply being better games than the current retail.
And they are.
Has Blizzard done pretty much everything in their power to screw up this launch. Yep.
But TBC is still a better game than retail and I’m playing it.
Caveat: I’m not limited to only leveling via dungeons. I know a lot of current TBC players have this limitation.
He’s trying to conflate 2 different groups as well. And for what reason? Only to troll as far as I can tell.
because otherwise he can’t totally pwn u with overly simplistic binary-based arguments, bro
Well a retail lover like yourself would think that.
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Is it as dumb as continually paying for a subscription and saying…
Because I can’t imagine anything dumber than continually assuming the worst is going to happen with a company you continually give your money to.
What’s your excuse?
The thing is a lot of people HAVE quit. Even if I go by frequent forum posters a pretty large percentage have said they are not happy with how things have gone and they’ve walked away. They aren’t here anymore. If you look everywhere else you see the same thing.
Other players are raid logging or just have a reduced interest. Yes, Blizzard still gets their money but these players aren’t as engaged and they are far more likely to just quit when their guild disbands or whatever.
I’ve always said I’m here to play with friends and that’s the #1 reason why I’m still playing. So I will play as long as they do. I also do like the core of the game. Things like HvH which I’ve been vocally against I just continue to not personally engage in but I’m not going to yell at another horde, for example, in-game just for playing BGs. There’s no point and they aren’t doing anything wrong.
I might put faction balance and layers really in the same place but wouldn’t put the total mishandling of almost every server there. Now that you added all those post quotes this seems to be what you’re getting at, almost to say that people should be happy to give money to this company to transfer because they “like and support changes”. I disagree.
IMO Blizzards handling of the game is a solid 2/10 and the points are only for doing things like banning cheaters and keeping the servers running. I have unsubbed 2 accounts as well for what it’s worth, with reasons (related to the server stuff). A lot of people are really unhappy with Blizzard right now even for reasons both related to Classic/TBCC and unrelated.
I’ve seen your other posts and I know what you’re getting at but I don’t agree with the premise. Especially how you seem to be saying that if people weren’t happy they would quit. MANY already have.
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50+ replies. Gotta call it a successful troll attempt.
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the thing is, blizzard used to be good. and they made this amazing game we now call vanilla/TBC classic. we want to play that as bug-free and change-free as possible. this game was so good, we’re willing to pay the currently awful company of Acti-Blizzard money to play it. well, at least that’s how it used to work. they are finding lots of ways to mess up this simple arrangement.
No, what I’m saying is people want the game to change and be more like retail . Brack was correct. We think we want it, but we don’t.
We want retail. Not exactly like, not mostly like, but more like retail. Because Retail gets a lot of things right and Classic should emulate the things they got right.
Anyone arguing for an “authentic” experience just wants the game to die. Period. They’d rather WoW die in stagnant “authenticity” than be enlivened by good changes.
oh no lizard mounts! the game is ruuuuuuuuined
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this has been a long time coming. the forum is sick and tired of kumasama.
But was anything of value lost?
I’m not. I think Kumasma is funny.
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