Dead servers MEGATHREAD - Ghostlands/Dragonblights plea to Blizzard

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913

I think they were needed at one point. Ours is a very quiet realm now, but I still remember the times when we sometimes had to queue to get in-game. And ours has never been one of the busier realms. Just that with the changes in their technology, I believe they can now fit more people on one realm than they could originally, meaning that now you’re right, there’s no need to have this many realms.

You have to also bear in mind, of course, that Blizzard are really the only ones who have the actual activity and subscription figures for the various realms, and they have to take into account that at the start of a new patch and even more so at the start of a new expansion, numbers peak - they have to ensure that they have enough capacity to take that into account, whilst still trying to balance the troughs when a lot of people stop playing. Although honestly, their “trough management” is rather lacking.

I have been talking to various people on various different realms … quiet and busy … and really the only real reasons there are issues with quiet realms are (a) mythic raiding/raid recruitment as a whole and (b) the auction house.

Luckily our guild does not do mythic raiding - if we did, we’d have probably gone the same way as virtually every other mythic raiding guild on our realm (ie, stopped raiding at best, died at worst).

Auction house is a major problem because, if we can’t get it in guild, sometimes some items simply aren’t available. For example certain legendary base items. One of the guys fairly recently wanted a legendary cloak … luckily I could make one, but we had to buy every single item of cloth available on the auction house, use all the cloth we’d got in the guild vault, AND scrape some more together in-guild, just to get enough for him to get it made. I bet that doesn’t ever happen on Draenor.

I’ve been keeping an eye on the community council, and someone there suggested a possible solution to that was to combine auction houses across realms, so there was less issue with being on a quiet realm. I don’t know how feasible that would be - but if they refuse to connect realms, that could be an alternative. Albeit a bit of a stop-gap one.

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914

So… boosting communities banned and x-faction instances, realm merges next? :stuck_out_tongue:

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915

It would be nice to think so. But I think we’re probably the problem that’s been gathering dust for so long, they no longer even notice it …

… a bit like my “useful wires” drawer :rofl:

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916

Hey I can dream :stuck_out_tongue: They were asking for todays announcements for years as well

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917

Blizzard…?
https://tbc.wowhead.com/news/free-character-transfers-for-eu-burning-crusade-classic-realms-updated-325875
:confounded:

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918

Dragonblight was my first realm back when I started playing for the first time, as it was a newcommer realm. I left halfway through BFA to join AD since I love RP. I hope Dragonblight can stay afloat… (Despite the fact I was kicked from a guild for not greeting people when they came online :^) )

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919

Hardc0rn !!!

“The new guy didnt say Hello”
“Oh rly? Get me my AK47”

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920

Yeah it was great. Even when I told the GM “Yeah I’ve had a rough day and I don’t really want to talk to people”, he’d tell me to just suck it up. Lol.

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921

Wow … that’s mental. What happens if you happen to be online but afk at the time … the postie at the door, the urgent dash to the loo …

“don’t care … BOOOM”

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922

From what I’m told it wasn’t exactly a technology issue, they wanted the game to depend on social interaction, so smaller populations were necessary. This way you were more likely to remember and meet again people you played with, and you probably didn’t want to burn your bridges with everyone by being a ninja looter.

Of course times change. They eventually allowed new players to join full realms because people cried they wanted to play with their friends on that realm, and cross realm play became a thing in an attempt to liven up empty realms.

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923

Dead realms will be even more dead now becouse boosters will move to high realms and people that wanna buy boosts will probably move to high realms also :smiley:

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924

Pray it works!

925

Hope they announce something about their plans for dead servers soon. But not gonna hold my breath while waiting…………

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926

I can reccommend my own tactic , give up on the idea and then be pleasantly surprised when they do actually announce it :stuck_out_tongue:

927

I like your optimism … “when they do … announce it” … lol. Personally, and from a guild point of view, we’ve virtually gotten to the point of giving up.

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928

We’re fortunate to have a full raidteam to the point that recruitment is closed but the realm itself is struggling still, we’ve just absorbed a few new socials from another large guild where the gm has quit playing.

929

Yeah that’s how we’ve survived up until now. The guild has been on the same server since 2007 and our name is known … so often we’re a good option for those who have had their own guild on the realm die on them. We’ve managed to attract some from other realms, but not enough to cover the natural wastage plus those who transfer to other busier realms.

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930

I’ve been doing a little bit of research for a potential target realm … and this is how much attention Blizz puts into connected realms. One of the realms I have a character on, but haven’t played in a while - I just couldn’t find it on the wowprogress site. After some digging, it turns out that it was a Connected realm … and not only that, but in August 2020 it appears it was connected to another group of connected realms … was announced as such, was stated that they would be changing the forums to reflect that change … but then they never did. It’s like someone came along and told them “drop that … ignore it” … and they’ve never been back since.

If they couldn’t be bothered even merging a couple of forums together … they’re not going to bother connecting entire realms.

In September 2020: ✨ Realm Connections Update Thread - #10 by Thyvene-2505

“We are planning more realm connections for low-population realms, and we will post a new notification like this one next week.” - then it was unpinned and ignored.

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931

Feels bad.

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932

Yeah i know, they started and then just went completely silent. Dropped it like a hot potato. By now i’m sure they are just waiting for us all to mass transfer off the dead servers.

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