It wasn’t a game/chat screenshot if that’s what your thinking, I don’t really want to delve into details.
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Best not to
It is a bit problematic when a handful of people can hijack a thread so much that it gets deleted.
Wish they’d just removed those posts and I hope at the very least people like that get a lengthy ban.
At the same time understandable they don’t want to put as much time into it. Still, you lose more good than bad.
good . this proves that this time merges arent just cosmetic like last time only will be through and heavy .
they should aim for each server-merged-group to have at least the population of servers like draenor and silvermoon . the less servers the better for players.
Except thats not the point of the merges , a healthy population sure but not on the level of Draenor and Silvermoon. If you expect that you’re in for a shock. Also the next batch of server merges will not be for the burning legion connection but for other servers so this is not helping BL in any way
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@Lilïith: Maybe not quite that big… In the deleted thread I expressed my view to Esploratore that the current plans will probably end with EU having roughly 59 to 70 realms instead of the current about 115, with around 64 being the most probable number.
Again with the assumptions. You’re assuming too much, generalizing, and don’t care a bit of what people with experience playing on those realms have to say.
I played on two of those “Portuguese” horde guilds on Aggra/Grim Batol, and sure, I can’t speak for all of them, but in my experience, when non-Portuguese were around, we all spoke English and raids were all in English.
The only exceptions being when a Portuguese member was messing up and their English level wasn’t great, the raid leader would apologize to have to speak Portuguese to explain to X what they were doing wrong.
Are there 100% Portuguese guilds, I’m sure there are. But most are mixed because they know it’s harder to recruit otherwise.
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have you seen the equivalent on the al’akir/xavius/skullcrusher realms where there are literally no english speaking guilds and burning legion natives actively discourage the use of english? i must admit i know nothing of the aggra merge but on the bl merge all of the assumption they make would be accurate
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Oh, I’m aware, and I feel for them, but you can’t assume/generalize that all non-English communities are like that. Nor that all polish players are like that, for that matter.
Aggra has always been an oddball. A Portuguese realm on the English tab then connected to an officially English realm (Grim Batol).
I understand people were apprehensive, but they were told time and time again that things weren’t like the horror stories they heard from other non-English communities, and yet, they keep making assumptions, even after the connection, and they saw that the trade chat wasn’t what they said it was.
(Can’t wait for someone to dig up a screenshot of some poor souls talking in Portuguese on the trade chat for the first time in years :P)
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i must admit from what ive heard of aggra it actually sounds like a really pleasant community and based on what ive heard, id love to be paired with it instead i got bl
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A good round number.
@Splendora: Hmmm…
A) I wanted to post in that thread.
B) According to Chronormi someone sabotaged the thread by posting something highly inappropriate.
C) Greens have no moderation powers whatsoever.
I would say… Strike one, strike two, strike three…
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he does it for free
Blizzard care to give us a answer?
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You are unlikely to get a direct response, but you may get lucky. However trying to ask for one is frowned upon 
Not to mention that it’s probably not the forum staff that have any say or input. However the feedback may be passed back by them.
You are supposed to be helping players around the forums not show your opinions in such a strong way and talk the way you are/were in the last thread. I remember very well you calling all of us who disagreed with you xenophobic , don’t act like you play by the rules.
On thread : They won’t do anything , they will get hundreds of people server changing their whole character list and it will be gigantic revenue , this is the reason why you’re not getting a response.
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It’s better if you dropped that nonsensical conspiracy attitude.
Behind the green are people and if you’re old enough you should know that people disagree and can have very different opinions to yours.
I disagreed with Trelw and Puny on this issue, yet I don’t need these ludicrous claims that they have those ideas because they are MVP’s and/or are paid for it.
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Not to say I agree with the gnome in this case but when an MVP calls people xenophobic because they disagreed with her view you can see it goes pretty far
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Oh, I gave my piece about that to Trelw and Puny as well.
But again they are people, we all can say things in the heat of the moment which might sound worse than what is going on.
I’m sure I had some passes for language over the years as well. Doubt it has something to do with them being MVP and I assume this… but I think they are under a microscope more by Blizzard and us just because they are MVP.
You can’t crucify people for just an incident here or there (if that post was even an incident to begin with).
I am as entilted to express my opinion as any other player. I am a paying customer like any other. However none of what you quoted was opinion. That is fact. Also, just to clarify MVPs are not required to give up their right to express their opinions. We are not blues, we are not staff, we have no company agenda to promote.
I am very disappointed with the xenophobia displayed by some posters towards people who may not speak in other languages that aren’t English and the general consensus from those people that those realms should be left to die because in their opinion they should not be merged with other English realms, even though there is no alternative. Will there be teething problems, yes of course there will.
Blizzard is merging realms in response to numerous requests over the last couple of years for more connections to be made. Realms are dying and connections are needed. With the exception of Aggra every realm is English which is incidentally the most common catch all for all non language specific realms. Aggra has previously already been merged with another English realm.
Some would also like to insinuate that Blizzard is doing this to generate income from transfers which would actually be counter productive when it comes to trying to fix realm populations. Anyone who does feel very strongly is free to take that route but I would advise against anyone moving prematurely. Re-rolling is of course a completely free alternative to paying as is using any left over boosts people may have.
Blizzard have all the data to hand to see what populations are on realms, their activity, the Horde/Alliance split etc etc. Third party sites have a lot of incorrect data on them but for busy realms it’s not a bad indicator but should never be taken as gospel. These connections have taken time to prepare and plan and they were not done tossing the names into a hat and pulling out matches.
I was on a realm that became an unofficial Turkish realm. You wouldn’t know that today.
I stopped posting in the other thread and muted the discussion because angry posters will not be reasonable and nothing I say is helping those expressing that anger. There isn’t really a lot to say other than to correct misinformation and try to get people to understand that all realms have to be treated equally and every realm deserves connections if they need them to boost their populations.
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