I’ve made a similar thread before which also had this ‘free realm migration’ theme as part of two themes. Now I’m deciding to make a second thread ONLY on free realm migration.
Blizzard needs to LISTEN. A lot of players, me included, have reserved a name on Shazzrah, then had to move to Firemaw to reserve a name which we did because Blizzard told us to. And at launch, we couldn’t even enter Firemaw and were forced to remake on Morgraine.
On Morgraine, we found our home and we leveled and leveled and most of us have reached level 10, level 20. Too high to even consider starting over. Yet, everytime we want to play we’re met with a huge queue that will take us several hours to get in. We can’t do anything else but sit in the queue, so we’re paying subscription for absolutely nothing because we can’t even access the ‘base version’ of the game while in the queue. Our time gets wasted, even when I can and will do other things while I’m in the queue, all I want is to play with my friends and catch up with them in terms of levels. I have this issue and so do many others.
I don’t want to unsubscribe ‘to make Blizzard listen’. I want them to listen and fix it. They need to make free realm migration available to lower population realms, so people can actually get off of the high pop servers and spread out over multiple servers. That way, queue times will be decreased massively and everyone will be spread out.
For the people concerned about ‘oh but what if the hype dies down and we are left with a lot of unpopulated servers oh my gosh’. Then Blizzard have the option to merge servers, like they have done before in the past. They can simply merge two servers of the same type together, and that’s that.
The point stands, this can’t keep on going. It’s been several days and queues have only lowered gradually depending on the time of day. Everyone wants to play with their friends, but can’t because one friend is in, another isn’t, people level ahead of each other and people can’t play in groups. I myself included, my friends all have reached level 30+, and I only managed to get to level 20 thus far because I happen to have huge queues everytime.
Even today, as I went to get something to eat and drink which I had postponed as long as I could, I was maybe afk for roughly 5-10 minutes, not longer. I even used my google chrome remote to stay in touch with people via battlenet instead of the mobile app on my phone in order to not go afk. And as I didn’t check my phone for a maybe 3-5 minutes out of that time, and checked back in I was simply kicked only to be faced with another 7k queue of players. So basically back where I started earlier today.
This is absolutely ridiculous. And I know I’m not the only one that feels that way or goes through the same issues. And of course, it might resemble very closely to what launch was like back in 2004. But I’m a paying customer, knowing what Blizzard is capable of for over 10 years now. So Blizzard, we all know you can do much and much better.
- On a more positive note, I’d like to add that for the time that I’ve played Classic, it is worth the wait. It is absolutely great. I get enjoyment out of it. Being able to accomplish things that have seemed so easy in the base game but are so tough to achieve in classic and it’s genuinely fun. But in the end, I’m a paying customer that is paying for a product so I would say that Blizzard should do everything in their power to reduce the queues as much as possible.
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