The first look at Earthfury forums gives the impression that Earthfury is hopeless, lost, dead, and filled with crybabies. But the truth is, Earthfury is just new.
Yes, the majority of us transferred originally from Herod and Skeram, many of us as soon as transfers opened… eager to skip the 5 hour queue times that came with those higher population realms. For quite a few it seems they didn’t understand what it meant going from an overly populated realm to a brand new one. On day 1 there was less than 10 items on the auction house, Alliance side there was only 150 or so people on during peak hours. This immediately disappointed a lot of people who were used to instant groups and a large shopping variety, and rightfully so, we hoped more people would have transferred with us. Several of those people (including a whole guild) left within 48 hours, and then came to the forums giving what I feel to be a terrible impression of what Earthfury is, and could be.
As of today, September 10th, there are several thousand items on the Alliance auction house, and we are seeing an upwards of 700 people on during peak times, a good amount of those being players that newly rolled here (did not transfer). While that is still a low number, it is more than 4x growth in over a week. Earthfury isn’t dead, it is growing.
I can’t speak for my Horde counterparts, but during the evening there are at least a few groups in every instance, and with a few direct messages to those around towns forming a new group seems to happen fairly quickly. Guilds are recruiting often and the Earthfury Discord is fairly active with positive players on both sides.
Yes, we are still low pop, but with the new announcement allowing three additional realms to transfer here, there is the potential for our realm to be an awesome one. I have no doubt that with the amount of organic growth we have seen in the last week that Earthfury would eventually become a population amount that more people are comfortable playing in, but these newly announced realm transfers are going to make it happen so much faster!
Ultimately my point is, if you’re trying to get away from queue times on week nights, if you’re sick of standing in line waiting for the groups in front of you to kill that boss spawn, then you should definitely come to Earthfury. This realm is good, it just needs a few more of you to make it great! Come make friends.
