did blizz every say why they haven’t done that? At this point i don’t think technology is an issue anymore
1 Like
Because a million or more players on one realm might do bad things for game play? Just saying.
lmao okay i didnt know it was sunday
1 Like
you realize even now not everyone is on the same map even if they are on one realm right
2 Likes
All the realms being connected is dumb sure. But why not say… all the RP realms? And a majority of normal realms? We don’t need hundreds of realms per region anymore.
People worry that merging will ruin communities but right now the game is dying because there is no community. The only time most people interact with players is from a different realm so they’re disposable. Having them more likely to always be there everytime you log on fixes that.
I’d certainly start by at least trying to balance the faction populations by mixing horde dominated servers with alliance ones. One by one till we get a server to a good enough size to be comparable to a popular one that doesn’t need to be merged. Then go on from there. But Blizzard would rather sit around for half a decade then maybe merge one server with 300 players with a different server that has 500 players then wonder why the new combined server still isn’t played by anyone.
Turns out adding 0 + 0 still equals 0.
all the servers are already “connected” for game play purposes
well, except for guilds and auction house i guess ← and this is why i wonder why they arent all connected
1 Like
I feel this would help MG on Horde, or at least the option to “jump” into other RP realms.
CRZ is already a thing, but that doesn’t apply to major capital cities (read; SW and Org).
1 Like
I’m pretty sure that technology is the main issue.
It doesn’t work to “imagine” that our computers can do everything the most advanced experimental computers can do, because we don’t each have multi-million-dollar-computers. The client half of the game has to run on everyone’s old crummy PC. Blizzard can spend more on its servers, but not $50,000,000 on each one.
And the game uses the old internet. Blizzard can’t change that. There are a huge number of messages going back and forth between each client and the server every second. The internet can’t handle an infinite number of very-high-speed messages.
Remember, “what we may be able to do in 50 years” is not “what we can do right now”.
'Cause they can’t.
but i mean we already are partially all connected right? You can dungeon with anyone on the same faction and you can see them if you are partied in a hub and you can message them, the only parts that are not connected are AH and guilds.
it’s just weird that you can party anyone, but you cant be in the same guild. You can trade loot from a dungeon you were both in, but you can’t trade regular items, thats why the limitations don’t feel like a technology thing to me
I imagine some of it has to do with server technology. As it stands, any form of encounter with more than 20 people in the open world begins causing problems. RUIN gaming is a huge example of this. Whenever they enter Nazjatar, they cause massive lag to the point where people can’t really respond.
So bringing together all of the realms would cause major issues involving people being all in the same shard and massive lag problems. It would just make the problem involving CRZ worse.
1 Like
If lag and resource nodes had some kind of mitigating control. Otherwise it would look like Classic launch standing in lines
The servers can’t even handle a 10v10 wpvp battle. Let alone everyone playing on a single server.
All the realms… (shudder)… the sharding nightmare this would cause would hurt my brain. Badly.
1 Like
You know when the servers get connected they don’t just throw away one of the physical servers, right?
They both still get used, they just have connections between them so they aren’t as entirely exclusive from each other and can do more things together.
Either way you want to put it in 100% positive it would be an absolute mess.
Because having every single guild in existence fighting for realm first would really suck. Most guilds would just quit because they’d have no way of beating the top guilds.
i thought connected realms still had their own realm firsts? is that not true?
As the population continues to decline over the years they will have to connect more and more servers. I doubt it will ever get down to one, but as the end approaches there won’t be many.
No. My cluster has 6 realms and players from those realms can join any guild in the cluster. All the guilds on those 6 realms are competing for realm first as if it was one realm.