Look, this proved more popular than you perhaps anticipated, that’s fair enough, but SOME communication as to the proposed solution going forward is absolutely required.
I get that Sunday is a peak time glut of players, but 6-7 hour queue to use your service is absolutely unsustainable and you will be haemorrhaging subscriptions after this month.
This is just the prepatch as well, wotlk hasnt even released yet.
Free transfers from Thekal or a Thekal [2] server needs to be in the works ASAP. Please communicate with your player base, they are frustrated and just want to play your game.
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Usually I would not agree adding another realm as hype dies down anyway, but there is no window where hype can die down for the next 6weeks+ due to FOMO event gear starting soon which you can only get at lvl 70 and then wotlk launch later after that.
That said I couldnt care less, but that “hype dies down anyway” argument is not really valid for a long time here due to that time window of events + release. Goodluck.
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I will never reach 70 before Wrath Release with this queues… fml
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communication what is that
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The biggest issue by dividing player bases on any server is that the probabilty that the servers which people transfer over to will die out within 1-2 months into wotlk. Then most likely blizz will force you to pay 25 euros to server transfer back which is insane in my opinion and completly unjustifiable action they are making players make. We have seen this time and time again from classic and tbc and for sure will happen again in wotlk. They NEED to find another way than dividing player bases again.
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I could not agree more.
I honestly don’t mind starting again as I’ve only managed to reach level 20, despite getting mount etc, but a new PVP realm needs to be opened, the current queue as of 04/09/22 at 3pm is 12k. Ridiculous.
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12k queue at 5.21 p.m (EEST), not great. I get in after midnight, geez.
Or don’t play on a fresh server?
There’s absolutely no difference between an old/established server and a fresh server soon after the transfer lock is removed.
Who cares if “Thekal [2]” dies in a few months? Just merge them right back I really don’t see the issue. This is such an easy solution.
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This.
You know, the most embarrasing part is that Blizzard is completely ignorant towards the players. There has been zero, absolutely zero communication about this issue since the start of the fresh servers.
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This could definitely be a solution IF, just if they actually give people free transfers back. But the company is incredibly greedy in wanting to suck dry on peoples money as much as possible which is so depressing to see…
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Imagine if they stuck with their initial plan of 1 server per region and didn’t open Giantstalker.
Giantstalker has no queue, feel free to come there
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they could easily open a second PvP server and connect them, like they did back in the days to connect the low pop servers (https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Connected_Realms).
They’re then shown as different servers but everything is connected and counted as the same realm when you’re logged in.
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Just login 4 hours before the time you actually want to start playing.
If you are at work and no one is home to login for you can you setup remote desktop and login before you get home?
First of all, not everyone can do that. Second, how do you know when to log in? If you’re at work and won’t have access to your PC, you gotta log in the exact queue time + 15 min before you can play, otherwise you’ll just get disconnected for AFKing. Also, the queue can be anywhere from 2 to 8 hours so how the hell are you even supposed to plan ahead?
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This queue is so stupid. If they won’t fix this they will lose players FAST.
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they arent losing very many players right now??
if im not mistaken the queue is actually increasing in number not decreasing…
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By opening free transfers it ruins the balance of the server and we will end up with another 99% alli, 99% horde mega servers.
Either leave as or open a new fresh server with 100% exp boost for a week which could temp people off.
Can’t they just faction balance lock these new servers to within 20% of each other.
Or exp boosts for the lower % faction?
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Open Thekal 2 with unlimited free transfers between these two realms until a permanent solution is found or no longer needed. Here we are paying a subscription and the game is literally unplayable.
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