Earthshaker still locked for no reason

WoW Classic Cataclysm Classic Discussion
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Earthshaker along with other servers such as Mograine and Pyrewood Village remain locked for transfers despite their status being ‘high’ and not full.

This has been the case since Ulduar launch, despite their population rapidly going down.

Meanwhile, since the Firemaw-Gehennas transfer fiasco, Firemaw is open for tranfers.

Firemaw has roughly 5000 more active players than Earthshaker does.
Golemagg has even more players than Firemaw and is considered ‘full’ - yet transfers remain open to it.

This does not make any sense whatsoever and it is becoming an increasingly frustrating issue for me as I would love to transfer my Gehennas horde rogue to Earthshaker alliance.

Please fix.

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The realms you mentioned are locked in order to encourage paid transfers to Firemaw and Golemagg. I fail to see any other logical explanation :neutral_face:

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At this point I genuinely can not tell if Blizzard is outright evil or just this incompetent. It’s like a Poe’s law of mismanagement.

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”Create the problem, sell the solution”,
blizzard follows that rule.

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Would be nice to get a blue post about why this realm is locked for transfers. There’s people that have characters here that are unable to transfer their other characters even though the realm is not full or locked.

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With unfortunately 16 years of experience under my belt playing this game - it’s a bit of both, but mostly it comes down to incompetence.

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Please unlock earthshaker, why is firemaw open for transfers but not earthshaker?

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Since the population has 4 levels, we cannot know how close to “Full” they actually are.

Are they near the Medium/High border or the High/Full border, or are you just guessing the actual poopulation.

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Earthshaker population has fallen for sure. It makes no sense not to have open transfers when you have Golemagg open with twice the pop of earthshaker almost.

Generally speaking i have no idea how much is the real cappacity of a server but we live in 2023. Everyone should be in a few servers and enjoy the game. Those dead servers are a meme

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It’s been the case since before Wrath launch.

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Not even close to full as is not firemaw with 5k+ players compared to shaker

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Bumping this because this remains a problem.

It’s increasingly obvious that:

  1. Blizzard still hasn’t noticed they messed up
  2. Blizzard doesn’t care
  3. Blizzard is doing this intentionally to force the playerbase onto a few select bunch of servers.

At this stage I am pretty sure it’s #3.

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Happened on Mograine EU too before it’s inevitable alliance death, we had to transfer and all pay >£19. Make sense for them to not open it i guess

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Ashbringer is in it’s current predicament cause Blizzard kept it locked for too long as well.

At some point some of the top guilds on the server are just gonna go “we won’t do this anymore” and pay to transfer off to another guild and then the FOMO cascade happens.

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Sadly, Blizzard just uses months-old data to decide the realm’s population. We already saw it happen with the Noggenfogger fiasco in TBC.
RIP Noggen, it was a really good realm back in the day.

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Earthshaker is finally open. Just transferred over there!

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