So as much as you (Blizzard) are going on about how you listen to the playerbase in order to improve the game in 10.0, when are you going to merge dead/dying realms?
Some realms have been connected 5+ times and others have never been connected. Obviously the likes of Draenor/Silvermoon don’t need connecting, but other servers don’t have even 1/10th of the playerbase they have and have never been connected. Surely it is about time for mass server merges in order to bring up realm population, leading to better recruitment opportunities, a better functioning AH etc etc. or is Blizzards plan just to continue bleeding it’s playerbase for realm transfer money?
The idea of cross faction raiding etc is fine for communities, but people like to raid with the guilds, and be involved in the guild chat that comes with it which this won’t bring. In terms of mythic raiding you can’t x-realm raid mythic unless people are on your server either (until Hall of Fame is done). AH prices and supply/demand is absolutely whack for lower pop realms as well.
The difference in server population between the top servers and the bottom (unconnected) servers is around 20,000 players, which is clearly insane.
Again, this thread (Dead servers MEGATHREAD - Ghostlands/Dragonblights plea to Blizzard - #1007 by Blessing-silvermoon) has been active since May 2019, it’s been almost THREE YEARS and Blizzard still hasn’t done anything to resolve the problem. How greedy and ignorant can you (as a company) be?
and yes this is a technical issue because the realms are on servers, and servers are tech!
