Why aren’t you offering this yet?
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Because there aren’t any low/medium servers? ^^
At peak times they are all full, so you are only moving queue times from one place to another.
There is not even a MENTION of transfers (paid or free) even though we ALL know that’s the direction this is headed. Transfers are inevitable.
They’ve handled this fcking awful you wouldn’t believe its a 36 BILLION DOLLAR COMPANY.
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Because that would be too obvious a solution and Blizzard always likes to do everything the hard way.
There are certainly servers where people sit in queue for 8 hours a day and servers where people hardly ever sit in queue, like mine. And there are also servers who are low during most of the day, and only get High>Full during peak.
But i’m assuming they will throw up more servers anyways… And reguardless, this feature would help immensely, surely we can agree on that?
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From the Classic AMA on Reddit
Free Realm Transfers
Will you offer free realm transfers if servers get way overpopulated after launch?
Paid Character Transfer
Will PAID transfers also be a thing should a server drop heavily in population and a player wishes to move to find more activity or reconvene with friends on another server.
No Boosts
I hope that the character services stays limited to server xfers, because things like Character Boosts would break my heart.
Character Boosts are not in keeping with Classic. We don’t want to break any hearts.
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I agree mate, but imo the solution resides in more servers and not in just moving players from one place to another. The goal should be having balanced servers with no more than 5k by the begining of phase 2 and im feeling that we are driving away from that purpose.
I really don’t understand where you’re coming from though… If 4 servers have 200k people total, each, and 4 other servers have 50k each, surely it would make sense to spread them out more evenly
I frankly don’t even understand why this is a discussion and not a feature already
Because they know full servers are full of AFKers who never log out. Cities are full of them. If they allow people to leave, it will become medium server.
Now you are just throwing numbers. The facts are that all servers are full/high at peak hours and that a present medium server goes far beyond the 3/4/5k of pop.
Garbage answer. The que situation is a fcking disaster. The answer you’re posting is completely irrelevant. We’re in a completely different situation compared to normal realm conditions. Transfers coupled with new realm releases are desperately needed at this point with ques up to 12 hours + and almost (95%) of realms are facing ques of average 5h as no one wants to start fresh 50 times over before this crapturd of acompany realizes what the hell they’re doing.
Don’t feed us blizzard’s bullsht you mindless drone
Free transfers would balance the ques out
I doubt you’ll see FCM until the populations of the realms settles down. People are still moving at the moment which is what they’ve encouraged players to do. I am not telling you, you have to move. The queues are insane on some servers.
FCM would most likely destabilise an existing realm into being too busy at this time.
Not true.
It was well known before launch, during the initial server list announcement that Golemagg and Shazzrah in particular would be insanely overpopulated.
New servers came up just before launch and certain streamers announced they would roll on Gehennas, Firemaw, and those servers instantly became overpopulated, while the rest were sitting pretty for a good long while. (I know this as i’m on Zandalar Tribe and i know people from Shazzrah)
There is a HUGE variance between server populations at the moment, so much so that my cousins entire guild decided to move to Ten Storms from Shazzrah yesterday, after already reaching level 20+… and they are very pissed off. And for good reason, as this was easily foreseeable by most of us in the Vanilla community
But now it’s about finding solutions to the idiotic launch by Blizzard, and Free character transfers from servers, who say, have a 80/20 variance or greater in population would make total sense, imo
I assume because Blizzard/Activision is a Bussiness they are looking at it from multiple angles. They have to take into account numerous factors as what a server can handle. What Allows for a Good Enough quality for people who are in the game , while also trying to find a system that allows people to all get a turn. Also have to factor in the cost for allocating assets/resources to supply to a High Demand and the eventual loss of interest by some of the people who are currently hyped. Regretfully and sadly but they have to think of the Long run to. And even though i’m personally frustrated with the long queue’s and a bit annoyed that a company with 15 years of running this game hasn’t really figured out how to have smooth launches , i can understand that for whatever reason they are Playing a Strategic and Less Impulsive(slower) play to make sure that they don’t cause a new problem like Dead/Low pop realms after X weeks of time. Which will make the Loyal fanbase of classic annoyed cause they have nobody to play with. Which used to result In Realm Groups which then resulted into Cross-realm and all that. Which resulted in a lot more things that for some reason a lot of people don’t like.
What reef are you smoking? What could fck up these servers more than their creators already have? Transfers would even out the pop levels byu sending ppl that WANT to migrate to lower realms without restarting their chars again making FULL realms less full and low pop realms more populated avoiding extreme ques
There is no need to be rude. There are currently no low population realms.
If they currently offer FCM off busy realms it will over fill whatever realm(s) they offer the FCM to.
Read again: Transfers AND new realms. At the very least a statement on where they are at regarding transfers. Not this blatant silence and suddenly they announce something taken from the blue. People need to plan things ahead
Yes please, we need more servers and FREE transfers away from overpopulated realms.
If they make new realms they will expect you to reroll atm.