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I play on a pretty small to medium pop server and it kind of makes it hard to get excited about Shadowlands because there is not many people to play with sometimes especially when we are trying to do mythic or high level pvp. Are we ever going to see any more realm connections or anything in that manner to help improve the experience of people who play on small to medium pop servers?
ââI ll bring it up within the next week and then we ll do it as soon as we can.ââ
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So my guild has transferred this content to a full server from a low pop server. A few of my chars are still on the low pop server, including this one that Iâm posting on.
Legendaries cost more than three times as much on the low pop server. If I were to craft 4 legendaries on max rank, this far into the content, itâd be cheaper for me to transfer off the server than to stay. At least for mail / leather legendaries.
The issue still persists and is actively being ignored.
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The bulk transfers need to be free for those on dead realms⌠making people pay because others left is unfair for those who remain that still support the game.
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Iâm still in favour of transfers and then shutting down the server rather than a constant amount of merges, it gets confusing otherwise.
Then again, Iâd love to go back to a traditional server line up with no sharding but just Cross server enabled for all grouping aspects.
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Here a message from Lightbringer-Mazrigos the lowest ranked server.
we didnât get a merge while much better servers got one.
I am in a guild that used to be a large raiding guild but now couldnât get people for mythic, which means we also have trouble getting hc raids going. most of the other guilds on the server already topped raiding because of activity problems (and no new recruits for ages)
A coalition raid that combines people from alliance guilds on the server even wonât happen anymore because too many people quit or left, thew other guilds already stopped raiding.
recruitment is a dream⌠not been happening for a very long time now.
not to mention the auction house situationâŚ
And now we hear nothing anymore about server merges.
Something has to be done the server doesnât deserve this fate of slowly dying.
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Hey there Blizzard, have you reconsidered connecting realms instead of implementing a paid service?
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I cant even find the leggos iâm after on the ah sometimes 
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Yep same here, we have a good connection with another mythic raiding guild on our server (theyâre on our discord as well) so we can ask each other for crafters if needed due to that reason.
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i used to like playing lightbringer because it was dead but blizz had to destroy that too just like everything they touch to turd this days
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I feel you. Leather and mail legendaries especially are exorbitantly rare and expensive.
But honestly, Iâve said this years ago, in this very thread, and Iâll say it again: Blizzard has no interest in fixing this issue, because itâs an issue that actively earns them money, as long as people still play on these servers.
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Yeah, its mail and leather leggos i use 
and i agree, they seem to just ignore it. Giving us a bundle to make it cheaper is just a slap in the face.
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People will keep on moving from low populated realms, slowly but they will and one of these days there wont be anyone else to move.
Wanna bet that shortly after they will announce major connections?
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I just feel like Iâm beating my head against a brick wall. Honestly. I spend hours sifting through recruitment forums and websites, speaking to people, recruiting people to join our guild, but itâs like trying to pick up sand with a sieve. People are trickling away at around the same rate as Iâm recruiting, and thereâs no way I can keep up that pace. Sure ⌠one or two that Iâve recruited from other realms have left the guild, but remained on the realm ⌠but the majority are leaving citing the low population as one of the main reasons for leaving. I just feel that, not content with handing guild leaders a rubbish deal anyway, having to deal with a sub-standard interface, most of which isnât fit for purpose, Blizzard are just rubbing salt in the wound with the silence around their intentions for the realms. Because they really canât go on like this.
I cannot believe that Blizzard arenât aware of it, and donât have some inkling of what theyâd like to do to combat the problem, but it just feels like weâre all just scrabbling around for scraps in the dirt, in the dark, hoping that, at some point, they deign to drop us a snippet of information. Itâs getting downright depressing.
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I agree 100%.
I donât really know what to add other than itâs just so upsetting seeing two really longstanding guilds start to slowly lose members through no fault of our own.
I mean, I remember Dark Wolves from 2008 when I was Horde lol.
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Thatâs it, isnât it. There arenât that many guilds on our realm that have been around, consistently, without a break, for as long as ours. People recognise the guild name. People will often join us simply BECAUSE they recognise the guild name when either their current guild dies, or they return after a break and theyâre no longer in a guild. Which is great, but only for a while.
Weâre not going to break up, and Iâve always said weâre not going anywhere - but honestly Iâm not really sure how viable our staying where we are is anymore. Which means we would lose some of that.
Blizzard should just be biting the bullet and closing down servers. They should be announcing which servers theyâre going to close with a decent notice period and offering free transfers to other realms. Because Connections, although it solves problems in the short term, doesnât really solve the bigger problems. Personally, if I was transferring to another realm, it would not be to a realm that is part of a group of connected realms - because that just gives the feeling that it keeps losing numbers.
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Weâre a guild that was formed in Classic and still going strong 
We once had a vote I believe last expansion if people wanted to move, and most said no so there was the end of that discussion if it ever was one.
Being on a small server our guild name is also recognised and we take great pride in our server reputation. Recruitment is an extra challenge though and we focus heavily on making sure people we contact/contact us are an immediate reinforcement of our mythic raid team so they donât transfer to a low pop server for nothing, as there are barely any other raid opportunities here.
What I would personally love to see is if Blizz just threw all the low pop servers together and make it one large realm.
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hey exodeo,
if youa re able to mythic raid, and still get recruits, now and then, then your server is not in such trouble at all. Good for you!
My guild is similar to yours but recruitment is totally dead.
I do hope however that something is done about the low pop problem.
Just hearing suggestion stop asking for paid sub for people that play on the dead servers also making them more popular,
but suppose it is easier to just fix the realms and make them populated again the hard way.
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Yeah weâre fortunate enough that our core team of the guild has been around for a long time which has added to the guild stability. The only time we really struggled to get raiders in was last expansion when we lost around 5-6 in one go. At that point itâs hard to replace that many on a low pop server.
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I didnât even know what rp was when I chose this server. I chose this one because it was quite popular and most importantly it had something that no other had, a perfect A/H ratio, almost 50-50%, and I know that many other players chose this server because of that. Rp has never interested me, just like many others who have chosen this server, and the changes related to servers have brought many players from rp servers like me just a big disappointment, and thatâs why they really should have given us a free transfer back then, let alone now. Apart from the fact that this A/H balance has been irrelevant for a long time and that the server has been dead for a long time, these changes bother me the most because they are the main reason why this server is dead.
But I understand that rp players may want to be connected to rp servers only and they are not bothered by a small population, but like I said then they had to give us free transfers because many of us who are here chose this server not because of rp but because of other things that have long been irrelevant.
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