Must be nice. I tried getting my real name on Stalagg, and despite it quietly opening on short notice it was still taken in under the first minute. But anyway, yeah I wouldn’t leave either.
If it’s a 10 minute Q thats one thing. If it’s an hour everytime I want to log in I’ll be one of the first defectors.
Ain’t nobody gonna be on any server in a month anyways.
It was plenty of notice. If you don’t get the name you want, your name wasn’t very creative in the first place.
They should have seen the chatter on the forums about a good deal of players going herod for pvp east coast and added on another option before the first name reserve. Also if you want to switch but still are on the fence about it and have your names reserved you can’t even try the names on the server you’re thinking of moving to without deleting and risking losing the names you already have.
Might help to give 1 extra character name reserve so people can try other realms. But personally I wouldn’t move for that exact reason added on the fact the only people I know who play the game have already chosen herod.
Herod will be not worth it because you’ll be guaranteed hour queue times.
Also, good luck with your names hat you guys cling to. I hope it’s worth it when half your play time is in queues.
Will be rolling Stalagg because it’ll be busy enough and I can log in when I feel like it.
In addition, Herod transfers should have been the ONLY ones open for at least 24 hours with name retention guaranteed. Transfers…not delete and re-create. Transfers.
If they had done that, half of Herod probably would’ve taken the offer.
If they open a new PvP server on the terms I described, a huge chunk of Herod would STILL take the offer. But they’ve explicitly stated they won’t do that. So, they’ve purposefully screwed the people who rolled Herod, and now we’re playing the game of chicken attrition to see who can endure queues the longest before deleting and re-creating on another server.
Again…transfers–the only thing that would actually work–have not been offered.
True, but it is also the name we played under for the stress test. I thought that was charming and would’ve been happy to accept a transfer. I was not and am not, however, happy to delete my toons, lose my names, and re-create on Stalagg.
Everyone keeps using the word “transfer.” Transfers are not on offer. The only thing on offer is, “Give up everything you and your guild have already built and your character names, delete it, and go get in line with the people who couldn’t be bothered to show up for name day to start from scratch.”
Nobody’s buying that off the menu.
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Agreed,
Was sitting in guild discord lots of us just counting down the seconds for name day finally got in grabbed what we want and got set up. We are ready not 1 member is going leave for Stalagg
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Yes, of course they will.
Herrod will fix itself, if there’s a large enough queue time to log in particularly the unguilded players who aren’t that concerned of their name, or several of the guilds who will see the login times on Herod will make the call to transfer over to Stalagg. Most will stay, some will leave.
The problem will smooth itself out within a week of launch.
OP 10,000% correct here.
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Hard headed people believe every other realm will die and are trying to make it happen by rolling exclusively on herod. Only solution is to delete herod.
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Completely agree with this. I’d switch off Herod to the new server with my friends if I knew about it ahead of time. Didn’t get a chance to reserve the name I wanted because I didn’t see there was a new realm announced till the next day… so we’ll be staying on Herod. Hope the next realm is announced better and not so last minute.
There are some who think that, sure, but the vast majority are aware that the other servers have healthy populations.
They stay on Herod because of the things already discussed and because large, established, and successful PvP guilds rolled on Herod the first day and have been given absolutely no incentive to leave.
Those are the “edgelords” everyone keeps referring to, and sure there are some of those in there. For the rest, they are just people who want to PvP in a lively and active, aggressive PvP community. They all rolled together on day one for that reason, and people dogpiled the server later in the day for all the stupid forum reasons people have listed.
It’s complicated. It’s not “hard-headed.” It’s a very badly-handled situation where no one has been given any time to organize a move with their people onto a server, and Blizzard hasn’t given anyone an incentive to leave.
Lose your names. Lose all the logos and social media structure you’ve built over the week. Lose the community you carefully created via networking on multiple platforms in days one and two of name reserve for Herod. Get in line behind the people who didn’t show up on name day.
That isn’t going to happen. The players aren’t the ones being hard-headed.
I have no idea why they rushed Stal out so soon. They definitely should’ve planned it out properly like you’re saying. Like a chicken with its head chopped off…
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another though as to why they dropped it so soon. Players asked for it and after seeing the numbers blizz agreed with out thinking about how it should be done as every moment the new server was not up was another moment people we going Herod.
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