He asked you a question whats trolling about that and we do not need mega servers we just need some connections.
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I can just imagine the poor Auction House trying to cope with a mega server.
Busy realms like Draenor even had that much lag that it caused our No1 guild to move servers to escape it. Pieces moved to Stormscale.
I don’t think anything about wow copes with a mega server.
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People have a very outdated view of servers. Back in 2006 when the game was created one realm was run on one server, which essentially was one physical machine. The same for any other game, or services, including web servers.
Moder server infrastructure is no longer that simple. There is no longer a relation between realms and servers. When you log in with your character in your realm you can no longer identify which server is your realm. WOW before has an arbitrary number of realms each associated with one single physical server machine. Now WOW has an arbitrary number of realms and an arbitrary number of servers with no relation between both.
What the OP asks is to have one single realm, which does not mean to have one single server for all players because as I said there is no relation between realms and servers, they can have the game with one single realm with an arbitrary number of servers.
And essentially the game already works like that, because we can already play with anyone from all around the region. The game has a limitation that keeps alive the old concept of realms in the form of AH, mails, and economy isolated between realms, and that is what makes people believe realms still have behind old school physical servers associated with them.
So, it would be possible for Blizzard to change the game to work with one mega realm? It is just not possible, it already happened. But it does not seem like that because realms still have separated AH.
Forget any argument about if it will be possible to change the game because Blizzard already made that change years ago. We are playing on a mega-realm, but a mega-realm that keeps the sense of old realms with their own separated AHs.
This means the only difference between current realms and what OP asks will be a unified AH for the whole region. Could it be possible to have that unified AH? I don’t think so. AH has not been designed to have such a population, it already lags with only the population of a full realm, I couldn’t imagine the beast it will be to have a whole region of AH.
Because unlike other parts of the game the AH is not a concept that could be distributed among multiple servers, if I search in the AH for the cheaper Iron Ore available it should search through all Iron Ore available on the AH to find the cheapest one in all the European region, it is not enough to have multiple AH servers and make my search in one server with part of the auctions while other players search on another group of auctions. Distributing the load among serves works on other parts of the game, not for the AH.
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I go to the AH once in about two weeks, and every time i need to wage relisting wars in order to sell anything. If servers are to be merged i would have to wage war not against few campers but against tens of them.
Fair proposal Thýri , but no thanks.
Indeed, realms are on cloud these days.
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We’ve basically go that now with CRZ/Sharding.
However the main complaint about sharding is that it removes server community.
I suspect we’ll get cross realm guilds and maybe a cross realm Ah in the future.
I have suggested this sort of, before.
But it would be an issue with AH and names etc.
I wanted characters to be untied from realms, you in the character selection screen you could pick your character and then which realm you wanted to log in to instead of currently, picking realm and then character.
But it would require a solution for names since currently it’s Name - The Realm.
But blizzard could fix the dead realms and the overpopulated realms by simply allowing cross-realm guilds and removing the restrictions from mythic raid grouping.
Mythic raids and guilds i believe is the main reason people flock to the same overpopulated realms.
Connected realms is a solution yet we still have a bunch of dead realms when connected.
And with more people leaving the game it’s just getting worse.
Previously I was on draenor that I had transferred to because I couldnt find a guild to progress the raids further.
So I did some runs with a guild on draenor before moving there.
during shadowlands launch though it was impossible to play there for some time, couldnt even try the raid due to 10 sec delays.
So we took the offer for free transfer which turned out to be a mistake, lost people and on the new realm we struggled to find replacements.
These realm restrictions hit raiders hard, probably hit rated battleground groups aswell but they aren’t limited like mythic raiding is with the server lock and unique lockouts.
And with raids getting harder and more complex it is looking really bad for us raiders unless you play in a popular raiding realm.
Just remove these restrictions on guild and mythic raiding so more people can group up and play together. And let consumables be traded between realms as well. Sucks not being able to give a flask to a group member who forgot it just as we are about to start the raid.
megaserver no, but i would absolutely be in favour of merging a big portion of the existing realms
connecting them isn’t really enough imo, just smush them together and create 20 or so medium/high pop servers
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That is the most wild idea I’ve heard all week.
- 24/7 Server crashes
- ^ Lagging like hell if not.
- Login queu’s will be INSANE (see TBC Firemaw as example)
- There won’t be a single mob/quest mob/elite/… alive for longer then 1 second. Making it almost impossible too do mainstory quests / farm mounts / …
Nononono, this is NOT a good idea at all…
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So who gets your name?
You or the 12 others?
probably buy limiting how much one can post on Ah could solve parts of the issues atleast, though biggest problem for wow is not the servers them selfs, but the log in server, what is not the same as the server who has the game on it, this is the one that many times blocks players and gives ques.
also big servers like Draenor and Silvermoon, can be fixed buy literaly just opening one or two more shards, aka 2 or 4 more servers to those.
pretty much how a mega server would work also, in way we already have this with the Communities, and only real restrictions is the AH and Mythic raids and guild creations, though making Guilds work as Communities can not be that hard realy, and most likely should have been done already in BFA.
only true problem would then be the AH, what most likely could also be fixed, buy opening up more servers and limit how many posts you can have at one point on the server, becuse honestly none need 100s of posts at once on AH.
Sharding never saved the AH or the lag that is caused in game though.
I know some are really keen for mega servers and no doubt many improvements have been made. More poeple can play on launch on busy realms than we could in the past. But I still don’t see that it can cope with the megas.
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AH probably needs a full overhaul no question about it, thats why I also would like to se communities turned in to guilds instead, would be most likely be easier and the servers would still be there, but Ah would be a problem for sure.
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Communities are a poor mans guild IMO. Same issue with cross faction atm.
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for now yes, but if Blizzard would work on them, it could work realy well
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Add surnames or allow spaces in character names, like so many other MMOs do.
Solves the problem at the root.
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Oh god no.
I’m on a low pop server for a reason. I don’t want to wade through crowds when I’m out and about questing. That ruins the immersion and it’s irritating having horde people tag multiple mobs instead of being the tiniest bit accomodating towards fellow gamers (that already happens sometimes, but imagine it always happening because the zones are always packed - nope really don’t want that).
No thanks.
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Then move to a low-pop channel. Problem solved.
But I thought you were placed in a channel? What good would it be if people could choose which channel they went to, they would just pick the best and most populated one surely?
Channels are for talking.
They’re not shards.
I personally don’t see the appeal of one mega server.
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