Because they couldn’t level alts in low level dungeons?
Maybe for someone who only chain levels alts and only via dungeons. RDF would prevent that person from leaving a dead server.
Even then what about raiding, PVP, the AH?
Seriously RDF would not solve that
I have a guild and RL buddies that jumped over here overnight
the copium is real, ill tell you what
I just bit the bullet and took the transfer. I played on Rexxar back in WOTLK and did just fine, I don’t need to be on a megaserver to play, that’s at least how I’m rationalizing it LOL.
The queue times are unbelievable and with a job I can’t feasibly only play at 10pm+
We’ll see how it goes. It kind of felt like a trap, but at least I can log in now 
blah blah blah, you learned that word earlier and want to spam it as much as you can. Login to the server and find out little boy
Did you do this recently? Because after you you use the free transfer it gives you a 90 day CD, so your not able to transfer your character back immediately.
dude Faerlina (the horde mega server) has free xfers there too…
PVP participation is less than 10% of the game, it’s largely a non-issue.
Now it’s not as much of an issue since all raids are open but P1-P4 every raid required an attunement, and most of those attunements required Revered reputation in order to do the associated Heroic dungeons. My first character was easy as I was with the initial push, but on a smaller server it was a weeks long task to get my alts through normal dungeons for rep then find heroic groups when most players logged on for raid once a week. Any new players or those coming in late ran into the same issues.
So what happens when your raid rosters get all their BiS, get bored, or RL gets in the way and now you have to recruit? There’s no pool of players to pull from since most people haven’t been able to even complete the prerequisites to raiding. All those guys packed up and moved to bigger servers where groups were available. So if you want to fill those spots, now your guild has to do the same.
And to top it off, aside from botters it’s primarily the casual playerbase on a server that drives the economy. They are responsible for the large majority of farming and crafting that fills the AH. When they leave, the economy goes with them. RDF gives casual players something to do who otherwise may not have the time to deal with finding a guild, building social relationships, etc.
That’s what starts the slippery slope that kills small servers in lieu of megaservers. I’m not saying RDF would be the savior of all servers, but it would damn sure help a lot of them.
it actually had nothing to do with RDF at all. It just does to a person with a one-track mind an agenda.
Anyway, the real reasons Sulfuras died were given from people with actual knowledge of the events that went down so that’s good. NOBODY was even thinking about RDF when the allies left. I’d link to a bunch of threads showing what actually went down but people already described the reality so I won’t.
I would not mind RDF being in the game but the low ethics shown by those with no actual knowledge who just use lies to push their narrative is annoying. Personally, I’d never make up lies to suit what I want because I’m not an extremely unethical person but that’s just me. People who know the truth about what happened to the servers in TBCC know the truth, no matter how much you feel like spinning your blatant lies.
As for the server, I’ll say it again I love the idea of a comeback story. The idea of a server rising from the ashes is amazing IMO.
rumors are that blizzard is gonna close it
from a nonsensical rant from a random guy, oh come on now
You are in denial. It is not a personal agenda.
People left to join other servers that had a high popultaion so they had a better chance of easily finding groups. They have stated that over and over and over and over.
Guess what? Rdf does that. Ffs why waste time denying that?
the real issue is that alot of realms were opened up to pay to trasnfer off, there was a healthy balance for most realms in classic vanilla. The servers only die when they allow people to pay and transfer to “greener pastures” It happened in Vanilla and it happened again in classic. All servers died after Naxx
uh, no, I started that post because it’s on bene discord
nonsensical people can’t join server discords now?
Where were you and where are your posts from when the servers were dying in TBCC? I could show my few thousand posts as I watched it happen to servers one by one, and RDF was pretty much never mentioned as a reason.
You are the one in denial because you want to believe something that you made up with no real knowledge of the facts and also zero desire to learn the facts.
I do not care about people saying they want RDF on these forums, they can, but using other issues to push this agenda is disgusting and I only usually say anything when something I care about gets used to push the agenda.
Anyway, RDF may have helped the servers a little but it would not have widened recruitment pools for guilds and it wouldn’t have fixed broken economies. These are both a huge part of what happened to the servers, which I doubt you even care to know.
I don’t really want to keep debating with someone who clearly just wants to make stuff up.
You have to understand the lot of Wow players, there are about 5% of us that will make anything up and pull it directly out of their rear-ends in order to perform and perfect their trolling abilities.
I’m glad someone here is encouraging alliance transfers from queues. After a week it seems clear that Blizzard isn’t going to fix the problem. With zombie infestation due to start today and wrath launch in three weeks it isn’t going to get better soon.
In order to feel more secure, large groups of alliance (guilds / via discord organising) could organise a mass transfer off their queue struck servers. Seems to me that’s the only relatively short-term solution that may actually work.
Blizzard could encourage this situation by offering free transfers back when and if queues subside for anyone who takes the free option now. Sad - but I don’t see other options.
Lots of people taking the jump and it’s noticeable. I can’t add screenshots but if I could I’d send what SW looks like right now. Like Benediction was mid tbc
I never said rdf was mentioned as a reason.
What is so hard about reading. You are at least smart enough that your brain is making that obvious connection though. I said. Players left because they wanted to be able to easily group with other players. The best chance of that is on the highest pop servers.
You obviously cant get past the “easily group with other players” your brain reads that and converts it into rdf. Smart man…
Which is my point. If they had rdf they would have access to that pool of players and would not have left.
Please do not tell me that you are seriously denying the fact that the number one reason players left to join mega servers is for the ability to play with a larger amount of players. If you cant acknowledge that then dont reply. I wont waste my time responding.
If you were here during tbc then you will recall thw constant begging foe rdf and dual spec to be added to tbc.