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Damn I thought I was reading a pretty good post until it got brigaded by the usual trolls on the forums, what a shame.
I agree with your OP, you’re not alone in how you view this issue and there will lots of people who will soon enough unsubscribe and walk away as Blizzard is far too incompetent with this Wrath release.
They had over 2 years of constant data and feedback on why server stability would be a big issue down the road, they purposefully never added restrictions or penalties in order to cash grab the mass transfers and now they want to give a free transfer to dead servers that they themselves created.
It’s a shame how hard Classic has fallen but it looks like between Blizzard’s radio silence on these issues to all the trolls bored and attacking customers, this is nothing but a race to the bottom.
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I would like to have glaives in my inventory and if Blizzard don’t give it to me then there will be consequence. The ball is in blizzard’s court. It’s as simple as that.
There’s one variable in this equation that can easily fix anything if they want to … the players … in the end its always the players making hard for players not blizzard.
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Got it, you can’t justify the problem created by you so all you do is whining.
this is the modus operandi of the average forum goer. It’s much more entertaining to laugh at them being hypocritical and whining that “Youre not being contrsuctive”. Meanwhile all they brought to the table was “Blizzard bad dis all ther fult”.
Not to mention how easy it is to push em over the edge into madsville. They already came here upset lol. Just push a few buttons and laugh until they actually try having any kind of discussion or point that isn’t just “I agree with you”
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I agree OP. I played wow classic and took a break prior to BC launching. I came back about a year into BC and there was no one on the server I played on. I found maybe 6 people online on the horde side. I almost quit but found out about Grobbulus, which I transferred to and have been playing since. It is a great server, imo, with world pvp, people to group with in all zones, active guilds, etc.
I work full time, am married, dance, and do acroyoga. I literally can not play except during prime time (unless I quit my job, divorce my wife, quit my hobbies, or never sleep) and now am faced with 2.5 hour queue every time I can play. Since I typically play between 2-4 hours at a time these queue times make it untenable to do so. I feel the same as you, I am afraid of transferring to another server that becomes dead as soon as people are bored.
My ideas:
I think blizzard needs to first release weekly reports of actual active paid accounts per server. I don’t think this would be hard to implement. Then they should only have 1 server type per region, only creating a new server when a server reaches 90% of full (full being the point where queue times would start) of that type; then allowing free transfers for the first 30-50% of each faction that takes it from the old to the new.
Transfers should be paid unless you transfer from a realm that your faction is 10% or greater than the other faction to a same type realm where the imbalance is the opposite. So if you are horde on a horde dominated pvp sever you can transfer for free to a pvp server that is alliance dominated. For pve servers they should allow free transfers from realms that your faction population is at least 30% more than the same population in the destination realm. If a server happens to “die”, maybe meaning shrinks to something like less than 20% of server max, blizz should lock all transfers to it and force everyone to freely transfer off.
Last, they should also implement free faction changes when there happens to be a large imbalance of total actives between each server types. So if the rppve servers in a region start having 60% alliance and 40% horde they should allow alliance to freely switch to horde until the population balances.
These rules should be automatic on a weekly basis, not decided 2 months down the road.
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It’s really a player created problem. People wanted mega servers that are imbalanced.
blizz gave the solution already it is now up to the player’s to either take the solution or deal with it and suck it up with the que’s for picking a high/full server when most people know there will be a que time come any big release.
maybe not the only way, but certainly a fantastic immediate solution for frustrated players, while they implement a more satisfiable solution (which takes time…)
Sorry this is happening man. You have paid blizzard for an experience several times via sub fees and transfers that they have not been providing. People like active servers with good communities and a healthy faction balance. Nobody should be put down for that.
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You are under the impression that I’m interested in arguing with you. This post is for blizzard, since they said to leave feedback on the forums.
Why would blizzard fix anything? You alone have stated you have given the $75 in server transfers. That “service” costs them 0 to provide since its not new content or anything. If your friends did the same, they also spent money.
Blizzard could fix alot of things very easily (like enforcing at 45%/55% faction cap), but why would they? People are literally throwing money at them with no effort on their part as the community tries to “fix itself” into high pop servers or crazy imbalances (benediction for example).
The problem starts with the community and their willingness to server xfer at the drop of a hat.
All I know is I’m fed up with transferring and I’m not interested in playing queue craft anymore.
Me too. I am lucky and work from home so I can queue up 3-4 hours before I get off work, but I cant play with any of my friends cause they cant get on.
I would server xfer to a smaller realm in a HEARTBEAT but my 2 options are some pve server with 20 pop, or a pvp server that is 95% horde 5% alliance. There are options I would totally do, but again they aren’t trying to fix the problem by giving reasonable choices.
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