I’ve honestly never seen such horrendous product mismanagement as I’ve seen with blizzard these last few weeks.
For a year, they took peoples transfer money with no indication these transfers would become a problem. They then open servers to transfer to, only to close transfers with less than a weeks notice. That gives you a week to find time to wait through a four hour queue, clear your mailbox etc just to be able to transfer. Then they lock transfers to mega servers with almost no warning at all, just so people transfer there, only for their returning friends to be unable to join them due to the lock. Then they open free transfers to certain servers, but only if you’re already on one of the mega servers. People returning to join friends can’t make toons on these servers as they’re locked for everyone that isn’t already on a mega server.
The entire thing is a giant dumpster fire and it blows my mind the amount of people siding with them over it. I highly anticipate this will kill of wrath, despite everyone excitement to finally play their favorite expansions. An absolute mess:
If you’re going to lie about something, make sure it’s not about something anyone can just log in and prove wrong in 5 seconds. Pagle is Full, not Locked.
Same here op, this whole thing was poorly communicated/managed.
What’s worse, if you transferred off of one of the merged servers to get to one with people on it, you are locked out of transferring for up to 90 days.
3 of us moved from sulfuras before it was merged because there was no communication until it was too late. Now we are either boosting, leveling other characters that we can actually play together with.
Heads up. Only one of those “PvP” servers are actually PvP servers. Some of the servers in your initial list of locked servers are completely onesided 99.9% one single faction. So don’t let that “PvP” designation fool you… these are PvE servers for all intents and purposes.
The only real, true, PvP server is Grobb. Thats it. Every other server is a PvE server, regardless of the tag.
Pagle isn’t locked but the guild can’t transfer there:
Either way, there are other viable PVE servers but they don’t want to go there.
Allowing paid transfers as well to Eranikus would probably be the best solution here (for the OP). I want Earthfury to bounce back but I wouldn’t advocate for transferring there at this time. Maybe there will be a better option before the raids start in Wrath anyway? Yeah i can see how this whole thing would suck for a returning guild.
Open free transfers to Earthfury! It makes no sense why it has been left to die when there are still regularly hours long Qs.
Heck, there’s a chance it could become a mini Grob if they opened to Bene, Faerlina and Grob and roughly the same ratio of horde/ally make the move. Could literally be another viable pvp server option. Absolutely disgraceful that Blizzard has bungled this so poorly.
Yea that’s why it’s such a bummer that we have to transfer off Grobb to begin with. It’s genuinely decently balanced here and the world pvp is poppin, but all that ends the minute we decide we want to play with our friends thanks to these heavy-handed policies.
We shouldn’t have to be in this position of choosing between raiding with our friends and giving up a huge chunk of the game we enjoy. We are being punished because Blizzard can’t manage their servers. And to add another slap in the face, we each get to pay $25 to downgrade our experience. GREAT! It just sucks so hard.
Yes, your intentions were good, you wanted to play on high populated server, balanced server, pvp server, all the best at that time, you just didnt account for wotlk influx of new players.
You werent prepared to make any compromises, it had to be that server.
If you made some compromise, you could have gone to PvE server, they are all known for long term stability, unlike todays monofaction “pvp” servers.
Healthy pvp servers does not exist and Grobb wont stay that way for long.
I can agree for whole guilds, I personally have been trying to get my friends grouped on a server, and its been quite a challenge. Some boosted on Faerlina since our guild moved here, then next day the server locked so it stopped our friends from xfering or making chars. Now Sulfuras is locked, I have 2 70s on each server and can’t even move them to either server without paying $100 to go to some crappy dead server, or a pve server. Even the free transfer from Faerlina is not accepting xfers lmfao.
Blizzard dropped the ball somewhere on that, why offer free transfers to a server not accepting transfers. Not a great offer.
