Here’s my transfer story that I’m sure many can relate to.
My home server was Incendius, at the beginning of classic. It was a decent server with good balance, until multiple large guilds decided to transfer and turned it into a megaserver. Once the queues started happening, I decided I didn’t want to deal with them. Like you suggested, I decided on a medium population server this time.
I transferred to Kromcrush.
Kromcrush was a medium population server, not too small but not too big. It was slightly lopsided towards the horde, but our alliance community was strong and loved wpvp. I thought medium population was the best solution: no queues and a decent population to play with! Right? Sure, it was good, but then the alliance started trickling out to Benediction. Then the horde started following suit, and slowly it got harder to do even basic things. Trade chat slowly died, and groups dried up.
It wasn’t really a community anymore. So I decided to try to find a happy medium between medium pop and megaserver. I’d go looking for a higher pop server that wasn’t overfilled.
I transferred to Earthfury right before tbc launched.
Earthfury, at tbc lunch, was a large server with decent faction balance. Not as large as faerlina and Benediction, but it was peaking at 10k at the time. I decided this would be the best solution for me. High pop, no queues, faction balance.
Until phase 2 tbc happened. Alliance got griefed outside of ssc for so long that overnight the population of Earthfury was cleaved in half. Then the inevitable slow death began. my guild stuck it out until the very end, but the end did come.
We decided that if even a high pop server isn’t safe, then we had no choice but to immunize ourselves to population issues by selecting the largest server available.
We moved to Faerlina.
And now we can’t log in for hours.
I have no plans to transfer again. My next “transfer” will be transferring my mouse onto the unsubscribe button.
Fix your queues, blizzard. And to the trolls, I did what you said to do from the start, and all that happened was the server died each time. I’m not doing it again.
