Leadership and planning skill issue, but a skill issue none the less.
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But transferring off isn’t.
Slicy is a bit abrasive, but factually accurate. Could their message have been more light-handed? Yes. While the queues are terrible you as the consumer can make the tough choice to disable your account for the tourists to leave after patch release then come back. I can empathize for the working class that may only have 2 hours to play a night and having large queues makes that not possible.
Slicy is right though that you made the decision along with several other’s to roll the dice and transfer off. The decision you made is understandable, but to point the finger at Blizzard is wrong. There are things they could do to prevent you from being in this position any longer though by merging servers.
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Then don’t!
I’ve also paid to transfer, and each time I’ve made decisions and considered the tradeoffs of either rerolling, transferring or quitting.
When WoW Classic first launched in 2019, the queues on Faerlina, which was my main server were so long that I started a second account so I could play while waiting on queue on my main. That queue alt was on Kurinnaxx, and I paid to transfer it eventually (during TBC) to Faerlina, about 3 weeks or so before free transfers were offered! DOH!!!
I also had a Alliance on Fairbanks. When it started dying ally-side, I rerolled an Alliance toon on Whitemane, and later paid to transfer my Fairbanks pally to Whitemane (which also ended up dying Alliance side).
When the Wrath Classic pre-patch launched, I decided to roll on the fresh server Skyfury with the promise of no transfers for at least 90 days, which ended up not being entirely true, but still was a great experience.
After a few months, I found myself looking to get both of my Skyfury mains into a raiding guild that had 2 raids, and preferably both 1-day groups, so I didn’t have to commit to too many raiding days, and as a result, I ended up paying to transfer off Skyfury.
I could have gone and played some of my other toons, or stopped playing. Or even put more effort into finding the right fit on the servers I was on, but instead I made the conscious decision to prioritize what I wanted, in the case of my Skyfury toons, it was to continue raiding weekly, so I opted to pay to transfer.
Meh… I don’t disagree with any of this, but at the same time it’s still relatively cheap entertainment compared to many other forms of wasting time for money.
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Nah WOW is way super overpriced they get you hooked into the game with guilds and a sense of responsibility to your guildmates so you keep paying them huge $$$. It would be unbelievable if we could see how much money we have thrown away to this game lol
or use critical thinking SKILLS and remote into your computer from your phone for free to queue or requeue like the rest of us who wanted to play 🫣 
I’m absolutely gonna point the finger at the company that is supposed to figure out how to properly balance these servers so that they don’t have 5 servers dying every 2 months when people literally pay to play.
I’m scared to read the comments but I agree with you 100% and I’m sorry you and your guild has went through this.
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lmao, most of them are pretty supportive actually. and one guy actually gave me some good tips to farm for wow tokens on retail (i’ve never been a retail gamer) so, it’s not so bad.
The only way they could balance is if they blocked players from coming and going based on pop or faction. Holy crap that would be a terrible idea. Everyday this forum would be full of “can’t play with my friends because X server is blocking me from rolling horde” “can’t get on X server because I can’t leave my server due to blizzards population control”
Players killed PvP servers (except Grobb)
Players killed servers with their mass exoduses and all going to the same servers.
These are player problems
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Don’t blame the players. Blizzard has never managed servers well. They should have forced balance from the get go. There are many games that do this and even have a friend pass system so your friends can join you. So stop making excuses.
Completely forgetting the fact they locked servers and Blizzard did not care one bit about these posts for months. 
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So blizzard forced all the players onto the same servers? Blizzard made the factions all clump together to create imbalances?
The server locking has been met with daily requests to drop the lock.
Yeah I’m 100% blaming the players for pulling out their credit cards and creating these problems. I may be mistaken though. Maybe blizzard just moved them without telling them and in that case It would be blizzards fault
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How? players are the ones throwing themselves into mega servers, I wouldn’t blame any individual player cus maybe they just want to be on the same server as their friends or whatever but yeah I don’t think there was anything blizz can do aside from offer free transfers and the really annoying persistent server locks
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People go to mega servers because they transfer FROM a dying server. They don’t want to have to transfer again, so they pick the most populated one to decrease the risk of it dying off.
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So…players choice?
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They could go to a healthy server ie atiesh and not go to the biggest servers in the whole game and then do the Pikachu surprise face when they get hit by the 6 hr queues
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did you even read my FULL reply?
yes by not managing their servers. It’s not hard to understand.
Yes, because there were no restrictions.
Friend pass for people who want to make characters on servers that are locked with friends. Not hard.
It is. PVP servers aren’t meant to be all one faction. Lol.
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We can really easily see this under transaction history. I spent about $210 for a 12-month subscription and 2 character transfers. That’s around $16/month for a year of entertainment - or roughly about the same that I pay for Netflix.
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Free transfers are a friend pass they can transfer anywhere they want as a group
I don’t think you understand what player choice means. All the players opted in for those moves. They all openly made their choice. Blizzard is just the cop out for the players who are too pathetic to own their choice and the consequence it had. Like a diabetic blaming a bakery for eating a cake.
Nowhere in there were they forced.
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