DEVS: Bad organized merge, solution? Free transfer

Hello fellow wow players who has been merged or were already on Hydraxian Waterlords / Mograine.

I’ve been playing WoW Classic for a few years now back on Zandalar Tribe with friends of mine which was fine a few years back with no issues and very active. After some blizzard incidents players left the game making it less active after a year of blizzard doing nothing about it Zandalar Tribe died with only 8 people online sometimes even 6 which was a dramatically decrease.

Blizzard came with solution to this issue that not only Zandalar Tribe had but more servers that died there solution was a merge, Zandalar Tribe and a few others merged with Hydraxian Waterlords which was great at first idea if they did it a year ago but you can’t expect to merge dead servers with other dead servers it becomes active. So congrats you made another server a little less dead but still dead.

I’ve tried to contact blizzard multiple times telling them how my friends, myself and more people of the wow community are thinking about the merges that has happened 2 weeks back. Not only were there no announcements in game, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and not even on the blizzard launcher where you expect all updates to happen right? Almost all games have a little announcement bar above in your screen while gaming or a little popup when you start the launcher or game? No this didn’t happen instead of this they put it somewhere hidden on a forum where you need to know where you searching for but no one knew few months back there would even be a merge so no one would’ve searched for that.

Blizzard send me multiple messages back and I’ve been talking to there customer support for weeks now telling me they understand the issue and understand why I want a free transfer for all realms that has had a merge (Mograine, Hydraxian Waterlords) saying they understand the frustration but can’t do anything about it…? Not something you expect from customer service right? Most companies contact there dev’s themselves or make a ticket for you directed to a dev but no I’ve been said to write something on a forum or on twitter but they can’t say if the dev’s will actually read it…? Sounds more like: Deal with it.

My idea for this issue multiple people are having is a free transfer to whatever realm you want. Not only is this a fair compensation to the issue’s we’ve had but also fair for the character waiting time, for me it’s been 2 weeks now and I still don’t have my main character the same is for multiple of my friends and probably for more of the people on WoW Classic.

Blizzard, its not always about money sometimes you’ve to help the community to grow by giving them a free server transfer since this is the issue you yourself made (blizzard) not the community.

If any of you have the same issue and contacted blizzard and got the same answers feel free to reply and tell about your experience with the customer service or your idea how to fix this issue!

Hope you all understand my point of few.

  • Toushirou
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I think, we can all agree that this whole “merge” was handled exceptionally badly.

Heya,

I actually came on the forums for the very same question! Not only has ZT completely disappeared and now we got bounced to another moreless dead server without any warning or any sense of concent, and it should cost us 30 euros to get back with the others actually playing the game?

It feels a bit like a punishment.

I strongle second the idea of getting a free transfer anywhere rather than having a free transfer to only one realm (which is Lakeshire I believe). That’s ludicrous at best. And if maybe more of us bring the issue forward they’ll finally listen to their community.

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While you wait, maybe you can find some of the other former ZT crowd playing on HW.

Lakeshire is a German PVE realm. They added the transfers for the German rp players they put on HW (much like ZT) to let them play on a German realm again. So I would not recommend going to Lakeshire, if you don’t speak German.

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Had exactly the same issue , came back to WoW Classic a few days ago , discovered most of my characters (Alliance) were on Morgraine , which is 70:30 Horde : Alliance . Also most of the people I’d played with back then had transferred to a different server .Which is Locked . I dont fancy getting curbstomped by 5 undead (??) rogues , so playing there is pretty much out.
Whole thing kind of reminded me of Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy , where plans about destroying Arthur Dents home to build a motorway were available for months prior …in a filing cabinet in a council basement
A email would have been nice! I get enough crap mailshots from blizzard , an actual useful “oh by the way , if you’re coming back for WOTLK , you need to click here to arrange where your characters will be”
So I abandoned my characters , and started on HW .(I figure at least a PVE server cant really be affected by faction imbalance ) but it looks like its been screwed over as well .
Why cant they do anything properly, and why treat customers so badly .
TBH tempted to just cancel my sub again .

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Hi, welcome to HW.
Celebras was not a dead server. It was an RP server with a small but active community, RP hubs, several pass-time raiding guilds, ect right till the end. There were dozens if not hundreds who wanted to keep it that way but we were never asked.
But most people who played there didn’t want to play in English and transfered to German PVE servers when they announced the shut down. That’s why so few us us came. And even the few of us and the people from ZT and the returners really brought life back into HW. It’s still low pop but you get by if you make an effort to connect with people.

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