Why are they completely silent on this? It seems like servers transfers off of the full realms to the medium / low pop would remedy a LOT of problems. Some communication or plans that they have would ease a lot of stress.
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There are 10 types of people in the world.
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Not sure but I will openly say Iâm willing to transfer to avoid a queue.
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Wait, I messed that joke up. There are 2 type of people in the world.
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Probably because theyâve considered the option already and decided against it? Thereâs other things that need dealing with than validating someoneâs vain need to be paid attention to by blue text.
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There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary and those who do not.
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Most likely they are waiting to see if this holiday weekend queue spam gets people to spread on their own.
Step 1: Receive multiples notices queues will be very long on certain servers.
Step 2: Make character on those servers anyway.
Step 3: Admit own mistake, but demand someone else pay for it - expect transfer for 3 day old character.
Step 4: Profit
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If they need more players on any server I will willfully transfer
Thats where the âcommunicationâ part comes in. People would shut up about these things if they communicated. Because as far as I and most of the community know, this is a great idea and they have not considered it at all and it will work. It would literally take a 1 min blue post to just say âweâve considered it and it wonât work because of X reasonâ.
So last week I was for this - but I gave in and just rerolled. Its a pain mainly caused by âname reservationâ. If you can get your names elsewhere youll get back to where you were quicker and its better for the longevity of the game to have servers organically populated.
That being said, months from now if they do still face the same issue - free transfers locked between specific realms and delayed character creation could be a fix.
There hasnât been no word, you just donât want to hear what they said.
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Step 1 follow their warnings and move to a low server before launch
Step 2 log into your server on launch day when all of them have a 10k que anyway not knowing which will end up being high or medium pop
Step 3 ask blizzard to transfer us off these full servers as they have added over twice as many servers since day 1
Step 4 run into trolls like you who think we are all on Herod.
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You could have stopped at step 1 if you would listen to most of the people. A ton of us DID switch. I switched off of Whitemane. Still stuck in 3 hour queue. How can you possibly say this is anyones fault but blizzards?
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Because Blizzard doesnât think itâs optimal to let a million people transfer in every direction, simultaneously, level 10-15 characters that can be rerolled again very easily.
Thereâs also the fact the every single server save for 3 of them that have 5k+ queues past noon, anyway, on top of that. Too many people are screaming for transfers without thinking about the repercussions
This has never been how server xfers work for population purposes. Educate yourself before you make an opinion.
No they wouldnât. Theyâd carry on until the problem goes away on its own or they got what they wanted, just like they always do. A pointless debate would ensue in which Blizzard would state their reasons and players would scream that Activision is pulling the strings to inflate the stock price or some nonsense.
Blizzard has learned that theyâll communicate on their terms when thereâs something to communicate. The days of GC hopping in to get verbally shat upon are long gone; you guys spoiled that for everyone.
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I wish people would stop blatantly lying about this âall servers have a 10k queue.â. It isnt even vaguely true. It wasnt even true on launch day in prime time.
The longest (and only) queue Ive been in all week (after work, in the evenings, every time) , was 800 people and lasted 8 minutes on launch day.
Most of the servers are fine.
The absurd claims only serve to undermine your own arguments
Thats for âpaidâ server transfers later on down the road. In what way is this related to my topic? Iâm talking about free transfers off of full realms to spread people out. You know, the realms that they told us to switch to which are now full. They launched with FAR too little servers at the start and they need to fix that. Every server they launched with has a massive queue. Let us off of those servers WITHOUT having to get rid of our 5-24 hour + work already. Thats why no one is leaving.
And to cut off the response âmake a new character or transferâ. No. Iâve transferred where they said already and still got screwed. I along with others have invested time in our characters and canât just restart because we donât have endless freetime.
Laughed hard here :'D