while true, at this point im not sure how much that would be worth. it would be like ion or whoever said at blizzcon “we’re looking into it”. we’ve seen how much thats been worth over the last 6 months, or 2.5 years if you take into account the “successful” Brazilian server tests.
this is the SIXTH most viewed ACTIVE thread on forums (ie, its still relevant and you can have your say.) and 48th overall. the others being:
5th: TGC selling thread (2018-11) a valid long term thread
4th: complaints about vulpera racial (2019-11) basically, faction imbalance post
3rd: account wide essences (2019-12) a problem that should never have existed if blizz thought for 2 seconds
2nd: high elves (2019-04) a valid request going for years, which blizz have just spat in the faces of these people
1st: cow level (2018-11) really? no. 1? and with blue responses? ffs!
i guess that shows that while not everyone is willing to participate, or somehow dont even see it as a problem, at least its drawing attention.
13th most commented on ACTIVE thread, and 46th most commented overall, which in and of itself is both impressive and disappointing as most people usually comment on things when theres an instant annoyance at it. just look at some of the topics that have more comments.
the thread is also a year old, which means its maybe the 4th oldest active thread. so they’ve had NO reason not to see it before now.
i think at this point the only reply worthy of accepting is a weekly update post somewhere on their progress. and i think the answer needs to be 2 fold now.
A) a region wide AH (or at least a few AH’s per region. NOT 1 per server)
B) i will take them for their word years ago that the technology to join servers pre WoD wont work now because of phasing and sharding. (and we know how beautifully that tech has helped the game!) thus, there are 2 ways to move forward:
i) remove sharding/phasing and use a “worlds” approach like GW2
ii) a server joining. devs know the REAL numbers of toons/players per server. they could create new servers, and move all players to this new server until its a REAL high pop realm, then lock it. do this for all servers that are dead/low and then just delete the old empty servers. you could probably cut the numbers of servers down from 250~ servers to about 75, and ALL would be alive and populate. OH, and i would make sure it is balanced also. either make the new servers 100% of a faction, or 50%. now wpvp is toggled it doesn’t matter if a server is 100% a faction, but it DOES matter if they are only 98%, cause that 2% of the other faction would be basically a dead server for them.
at the end of it all, blizz KNOW the REAL numbers of players playing, which im suspecting is actually lower than we’re led to believe if wowprogress (retail) and ironforge.pro (classic) is anything to go by.
where are these 4.5-5M players? cause they’re not on ghostlands.
oh, and one last thing on my servers death. of the 5 horde guilds left raiding in 8.3, we’ve lost one more that has left the server. so we’re now down to 4 horde guilds, if the other 3 are still actually going to be here in Shadowlands.
Ghostlands/dragonblight may end up like that video above, with only 1 raiding horde guild on it maybe…