Dead servers MEGATHREAD - Ghostlands/Dragonblights plea to Blizzard

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1093

Hello my old friend :smiley:

i hope they will fix this, it was a pain for me to transfer all my gold to draenor :slight_smile:

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1094

As puny says u think u got friends and can just make guild banks from forum that’s not how it works

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1095

You didn’t even ask :rofl: and then mentioned it after you had moved.

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1096

Just saying some people don’t like to to talk to other people, it’s something u will never understand becouse u to social.

1097

I have seen people struggle because they have no friends online, make a topic on the forum and get complete strangers to volunteer to sign a charter for them.

I’m not sure how all this is relevant to the current conversation.

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1098

Its not relevant, but it’s how it is.

1099

We disagree and there is little point having this discussion again. You never asked anyone for help.

As for connections, Blizzard appears to be taking a different approach if the AH changes are anything to go by. But I could be wrong.

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1100

Just saying from my exp i had a hard time moving my gold to draenor.

Try moving 100 mill urself no friends then come back.

1101

Completely off topic. If you want to talk about that, try making a new thread rather than hijacking this one.

I reckon you might be right. I don’t know WHY Blizzard are so adamant about not doing on retail what they’re obviously completely fine with doing on classic realms - the only thing I can think of is that there is actually some technical issue which makes them wary of trying. I know there were some issues last time with the merges so perhaps that’s an indicator. However, if they simply offered free transfers off a certain number of low pop realms - they can already do that without a problem. They can leave some low pop realms to cater for those who prefer the dead realm feeling.

And then after some time they could simply close down those realms they were offering transfers off of. Perhaps they’re unsure about what to do with the remaining characters (inevitably there will be a bunch of characters that don’t move). I guess they’d just have to pick a default realm to scoop everyone else to.

What is frustrating though, is that they just REFUSE to talk about it. They’re spending time providing workaround and distractions, but at the end of the day it doesn’t matter what they do, people on the whole don’t want to play an MMO which feels neither massive nor multiplayer, and they don’t want to be logging onto a realm that is actually a mix of half a dozen or more other realms.

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1102

I wanna read this but it’s to much, i am chill guy maybe do it abit better so i can read it :slight_smile:

1103

There’s absolutely nothing wrong with what they posted.

I fully agree with Poisonenvy that we at least should be getting some form of communication from Blizzard about it rather than flatout being ignored. My server Aggramar (connected to Hellscream) currently has an amazing 2 mythic raid guilds, and then a few 11/11 hc guilds (6). As a recruitment officer for the 2nd mythic guild my biggest struggle is finding people actually wanting to transfer to the server when mythic isn’t x-realm yet. Mass moving a guild with 15+ years of history just isn’t an option for us.

It just feels like blizzard has decided to completely ignore the subject while almost teasing us with giving tbc the treatment we should be getting too, even more with it being a much older problem. They’ve not even made a single post in this very old thread and ignore posts in the CS forums.

Maybe we need to find some famous streamer that is willing to raise the subject with them or pretend this is a post about tbc servers :roll_eyes:

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1104

We felt exactly the same - but once our realm had only one mythic raiding guild left, virtually no other raiding guilds (just checked, 3 11/11, plus some lower), and I started feeling bad about recruiting people off-realm (because that’s where we got the majority of our new members), we just ended up doing it. There was a lot of pressure from quite a few of the guild members who were feeling the pinch. Of course there were still a few who wouldn’t move with us - but you can’t please everyone, all of the time. It wasn’t a fun process, but so far, we’re glad we did it. And around 90% of our active members came with us.

Having said that - we shouldn’t have HAD to do it. Blizzard no doubt rubbed their hands in glee with all the money we made them with the guild transfer and multiple character transfers, but the whole process and the reason for it left a bitter taste in my mouth. Up until that, and the guild UI “improvements”, I’d always been a bit of a major supporter of Blizzard’s - making excuses for them, etc. The lack of communication and the failure to fix the multiple bugs with the guild UI has just soured that for me.

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1105

Many are disappointed that options are being offered for Classic and Retail just seems to get ignored.

I think they would be better off sharing their plans or intentions if the AH changes are part of a wider effort to remove faction barriers but at present we are still tied to our realms for guilds.

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1106

I believe everyone agrees with this:

While I get the nostalgia. How is this even an issue? I thought we were playing the same game. Some of my old friends swapped to classic when it began, but not everyone. You can’t play both games and still have time for RL, each had to make a choice.

The classic projects had a higher priority for Blizzard; the actions speak for themselves. Retail has been more like a cash cow for the last 4 years.

Maybe there are reasons like the toxicity of the loud retail players? Overall, the wow community is not what it used to be, but there are still nice people gaming here. Also, I get it, we’ve been through hell and back with Covid. Blizz had its lawsuits and scandals, then the take over. I hope things finally settle down now to business as usual. I wish them good luck and good speed if so is the case.

As Murb said, chill folks don’t bother with forums. The only reason I’m here is the fact I actually lead a community and try my best to resolve any issues we encounter. And baiting us with discounted char transfers, no offense but that was a huge insult, when classic gets free migration whenever a low pop realm occurs.

On Twilight’sHammer/Agamaggan, unlike Exodeos realms, there are no mythic guilds left. Only 3 guilds and my own cleared 11/11H. Most of our Mythic community core migrated to Stormscale with few mains, while keeping the social side here. It feels too fragmented if you ask me.

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1107

I have no idea what you think I said.

Classic is regularly offering transfers

Retail is ignored.

This entire discussion is about realms population issues. It’s not about my Dad is better than your Dad, which frankly I have no interest in.

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1108

I think this is why Murb prefers short replies. Biger ones require a thinking process that at certain times of the day, it often fails.

I only added my thoughts to what you said, nothing more, nothing less.
The message is for Blizzard.

Have a good day Puny :hugs:, get some coffee! :coffee:

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1109

You quoted me and replied to me.

If you want to direct a message at Blizzard it’s best not to do it in a format that is directed at a specific person :wink:

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1110

Heh, fair enough. I abused your cool green text format.

Looks shinier, maybe it gets attention and a Blizzard representative actually gives us a reply :smiley:

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1111

I don’t care what sort of replies “Murb” preferred. I gave HIM a short reply. Reminding him his contributions were off topic. The rest of my post - the bit below a quote by Punyelf, was nothing to do with “Murb”, as he wasn’t taking part in the conversation at hand.

The fact that he then replied anyway with, essentially: TL;DR, is rude.

I don’t agree with this at all. Blizzard have shown that they’re completely willing and capable of listening to retail players - they’re fairly regularly (recently) putting out posts saying stuff like “following player feedback”. Irrespective of covid, lawsuits etc 
 low population realms have been a problem for years before those. My previous realm, Lightbringer, was supposed to be on the list of those low population realms that should have been Connected before Shadowlands was released, but it never happened.

I also don’t believe that Blizzard treat retail just as a cash cow 
 look at all the work they’re still putting into new expansions. If they were treating it as a cash cow, they’d just be putting out minimal updates and reworked expansions, but instead they’re obviously working on bringing more into the game each time.

All this boils down to the fact that Blizzard do see the issues and the complaints, they will respond and act when they want to, which means that, in the case of low population realms, they either don’t want to, or feel they can’t for some reason. They do like to adhere to a policy of “if there’s no news, say nothing”, but they don’t even reply on the Community Council forum when it’s brought up - which is where they said they WOULD interact with people.

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1112

So u mean i can’t think, i say thanks to that :slight_smile:

But yea i can agree i am not the smartest guy.

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