Hi there!
I’ve tried to raise the issue of Servers merging. I believe that no language tabs are exclusion: there are 2-3 giant realms that overpopulated and there are 5-10 more realms that has absolutely no players online.
A year and a half ago Blizzard decided to block payment from Russian accounts, so they no longer able to purchase subscription. Have you thought through the consequences? Entire Russian-language tab gone dead. Players from all over the former Soviet Union who speaks Russian language as their second language are on this tab, including Ukraine or Armenia, you can’t just ignore them. My server used to be top 3 populated server in my language tab and top 1 server populated by the +6…+10 GMT. Now there are only 4 guilds who attempted heroic Aberrus after 5 months of 10.1, only 2 guilds being able to kill anything in Mythic.
OK, you’ve made auction house and trade cross realm, thank you. But your brand new order system works only withing the realm. With that being said my guild has army of alts with leveled professions to craft what we need. There are only THREE guys who crafts Lariat. And non of them are from my guild. Imagine the amount of gold it costs to craft it. We’ve tried to farm it and had no success. If you want to craft anything rare (that drops recipe, not automatically learned) with t5 quality, then you’ll have to pay 30-50k gold just for a guy to press the “craft” button.
With the new cross-faction guild feature that should have been the light at the end of the tonnel, but my realm is 90% hordish and remain Allys are either key runners or RPs. So this aint helping at all.
There are 2 ways to fix this:
- An obvious one: I have to transfer my guild to more populated realm. Easy to say. I’ve been through 3 guild tranfers and there are a lot of valuable players who got lost while its been occured. Plus when you played with your team for 5-10 (for me its more than 15) years you happen to have army of alts, especially when professions are that important. And on top of that guildmaster’s transfer costs even more. I’ve paid enough for that. And I don’t want to lose people again.
- Finish the project of merging servers that Blizzards started many years ago and left unfinished. Some luckiest realms got 4-7 servers merged together, their population got into Medium. My server Ashenvale has no connections yet.