So some people got what they wanted and got free transfers off Grobb. That’s fine. However, I’m perplexed on why Blizz wants to both lock the server AND make it impossible for people even with characters on the server to make new characters. This effectively kills the server, as without new characters the server fades into obscurity.
Furthermore, by doing this now people have absolutely no choice in what server to play for classic. No RP, no RP-PvP, not even just PvP, only PvE. So please Blizzard reverse your decision to lock character creation on Grobbulus so that those who want a PvP server can still have one.
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Grobb, as any other legacy server, are locked servers. They don’t want people to go there anymore. They shut down the last pvp server.
You answered your own question.
Also no one wants pvp grobb players have been screaming for the last 2 months for transfers. You can’t have it both ways and blizzard isn’t going to support it both ways.
Pvp in classic is dead in the open world.
You’re right, and that’s really a shame. It’s an activity valued by many players, and seems to me was mishandled repeatedly and consistently by Blizz. Didn’t have to be this way.
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Was it really valued? Grobb was the only 50/50 server, and even with free transfers in from 3 of the big servers it still died. I think you really overestimate the people interested in wpvp in this iteration of mop.
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Realm is cooked. So many people have left it so fast that it isn’t going to be saved. Might as well move on. It didn’t need to be this way but all you cats fought so hard to ruin so many peoples good time and right to choose to leave the server when this all went down that the goodwill is spent. Very few care.. why.. because you weren’t afraid to put your boot to peoples necks when you had the advantage.. well.. the boot is back but on yours.. and no mercy is going to be expelled in your direction. This is how your campaign felt to the MAJORITY of people (evidence? less than a week to near total server collapse) so now feel it going forward as fewer and fewer fodder to your antics remain to entertain you at their expense. Plus nothing is stopping you guys from going in, flying to safe spots or spots out of bounds in shrine and cooking up some NPCs.
The problem happened several years ago with all of the server transfer opportunities and Blizzard not trying to maintain any factional population balance on PvP servers. Transfer locust players really destroyed faction balance on almost every PvP server… I guess players did not want to risk being on a dying faction when there was so many massive population swings.
Its kind of a proven thing that happens in a lot of games. People go to PVP realms for the “prestige” of being on one a lot of the times but don’t really want anything to do with it. Also the way WOW is worked with AHs, grouping, and a ton of general activities having the most players on your faction possible has insanely high advantages. Not to mention strange rules like you can’t transfer to PVP realms from other realms but you can transfer from PVP realms to all other realms. So not only an in game advantage but also if things go south in the game all your doors are open still if you are on a PVP realm while they are not on a PVE one.
Things could be done to fix some of these things. Linking all the AHs would be a big one. Making cross server gameplay easier and more accessible is another. Getting rid of the odd mid 90s to early 00s transfer restrictions is another. It just seems they aren’t willing to go down that road though. Its clear that they thought Classic was just going to be a flash in the pan and didn’t bake in these systems that are already in retail. Even if they had them switched off to start while things were really popping. Maybe its a lesson learned they can carry forward, but.. I think we know that is unlikely. Simpler, faster, and forget seems to be the plan with classic systems on all fronts 9 out of 10 times.
I too am very disappointed they locked Grobb. Obviously the people who wanted to leave needed to be allowed to go months ago, but there is zero reason to kill the server. They kept BSB alive despite its small population because it’s a unique environment valued highly by its players. The same can be said of Grobb.
In lieu of keeping Grobb open, they could’ve at least allowed transfers to BSB so people who enjoy RP and/or small-town servers had a choice.
And if they couldn’t even manage their bare minimum fifteen pieces of flair, it would’ve cost zero effort to allow transfers to anywhere but Pagle. Grobb was an RP server. People care about their names. Even most of my names are taken on Pagle and my names are weird.
Grobb is unlocked. I take all the credit, of course.
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You going to take the blame too when they close free transfers and players start screaming about being stuck on a dead server. Lol.
Thats entirely on them then
I mean in tbc transfers actually saved us. I forget if we were flying towards horde or ally but a bunch of guilds came over and evened us back out.