if you are horde dont move to Firemaw its a dead server for horde.
Nice way to end cata experinece before it started thx for analitics regarding servers blizz
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Taking as example for the ones that have characters on let’s say Mograine Horde, obviously is not a good move to go Firemaw since Horde there is basically zero. But for that ones could be interested to go Firemaw Alliance, they will only need to pay a faction change, nothing more.
So, it’s important before leaving that “dead” realms with the Free char option, to think twice about your near future, what faction do you want, and how much money you could “not” waste in a future, doing a good move now with this free thingy.
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You should always check out the destination realm by making a dummy toon there and see if you can find someone to talk about how the realm is.
Blizzard is not responsible for your choice, only for presenting the options and delivery.
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Nice, trying to blame a player for mistakes of Blizzard. They’re responsible for alienating and killing classic playerbase which resulted in empty servers. And what delivery, what choice? A brute forced switch to Retail Classic.
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Blizzard did not make a “mistake” they did not force move the player without announcement nor accidentally destroying their toon etc. Should the player eventually not choose an option, a random realm choice may be picked though.
According the realm list here since you’ve missed it:
Each realm that has an option to move to Firemaw, essentially has 2 other options too. The delivery party refers to moving a toon from A to B wholly.
I don’t understand this, the server has moved from Classic Era, to TBC, to Wrath and now will to Cataclysm that should suprise no one yet people keep being weirded out at it each expansion…? This literally happened at Retail, every expansion.
No one screamed to keep Shadowlands only realms when we moved to Dragonflight.
Or the players wanted to play something else. Like HC after SOD got launched that. Or Plunderstorm. Or anything else really. Their time and money, their choice.
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I don’t understand how this is the fault of Blizzard tbh. Firemaw horde has been non existent for several years. Just you checking the server out for half an hour before making your decision would make you realise this.
You can even find out this stuff outside of the game. A quick Google search, “wow classic server population”, gives you ironforge.pro as first result. That shows you Firemaw is approximately 99.2% alliance. It’s literally two mouse clicks away.
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I think it would have been helpful if Blizzard had written in brackets what faction dominated the servers.
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Is it too much to ask for a warning when selecting a destination realm like:
“This realm is highly Alliance dominated, are you sure you want your Horde character transfered to this realm?”
Blizzard has this data.
Out of curiosity OP, are you going to buy a paid transfer to get back off Firemaw?
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nop if blizz wont offer a free alternative i will stop playing
i should have been informed by blizz if they forced me to move
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When Blizzard gives a server like Earthshaker the choice between 2 99.9% horde servers and 1 99.9% alliance server, yeah, that is 100% on Blizzard seeing as Earthshaker is 99.9% alliance. Earthshaker should’ve only had free transfers to Firemaw for example.
And obviously, a primarily horde server should not have free transfers to a primarily alliance server.
They have much better statistics on this than we have cause ours is based on raid logs and whatnot.
If they absolutely have to give the illusion of choice in this situation, they should come with warnings such as “this server is heavily alliance populated” at the very, VERY, least.
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Spot on, not a single though for the “consumer”
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Why? You want to see Blizzard being “Dictator” recommending you to go there?
Bro, they gave you some options, it’s up to you to do the properly research to see “Ok, where I am moving?, Why here? Why there?”.
Don’t blame others when the slacker is just you brother, I’m sorry.
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Because there’s 10 hordes on the server and giving us the option between 1 server in the same situation and 2 servers that are the reversed situation (aka 10 alliance players) isn’t an actual choice.
It’s just making players quit when they realize what’s going on.
There are no genuine options for the server transfers, just the illusion of one and Blizzard has happily kept up the charade that there is an option.
Stop victim blaming and expect a modicum of communication from the people whose salary you pay.
Save your crap, I transferred just fine to Firemaw despite my account running out before Cataclysm hits, but for the vast majority of players who don’t haunt forums or discords all day long this is going to come as quite the shock.
And you’re fine with that.
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As with everything in life, Always do some research.
Honestly posting on the forums makes you look even worse.
THIS
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Plenty of World PVP autists would be complaining they can’t transfer to “x realm” if blizzard locked transfers to realms based on faction.
Yeah, that is absolutely not a thing and if it was, open up paid transfers for it.
You’re also completely failing to acknowledge that at some point servers are going to get merged and a bunch of folks who put their subscription on break cause of lack of content might come back to find themselves on a server they literally can’t play.
But go on, tell us how Blizzard is good some more.
Also, plenty? There’s 10 horde players approximately on Earthshaker (or was), there’s not enough to make a raid. Compared to sending a bunch of folks over to a horde server, yes, it absolutely is preferable that those people get ignored.
Or again, at the very very least, have some damned warnings on populations on the free transfers.
Not only are Blizzard having you do the merges for them, you’re bloody blaming the players for not doing research … for Blizzard.
The OP does not, yours does.
You cannot transfer to locked servers to bypass a faction or realm lock.
Blizzard did the research, they gave you options and will do the delivery you request of them. They have never shown any population realm information in “stastics”.
You make the choice and if you don’t opt to do any research for the free transfer that is on you.
There are no faction or realm locks in Wrath currently, what are you on about?
Which is going to screw players over, as per this thread.
Nevermind the scores of people who have taken a break from the game and come back to be alone on a server.
If I was to continue playing into Cataclysm I’d find out that a bunch of my guildies reactivated their accounts and got shoved into a majority horde server when the arbitrary deadline is over.
That would piss me off.
The problem with this is that the only way to get this information is out of the game and a bunch of folks simply do not go that far.
You know the trope of “the minority of users use the forums for a game” - this is doubly true for sites that report stupid crap like populations based on raid logs. It’s incredible niche. You and I may know it, but the average WoW player?
If you don’t trust websites or forums to check faction balance you can always log a level 1 on the realm you are thinking about transfering and check yourself.
I’m trying to understand why someone would randomly transfer to any server without doing a little research, but is something I would never do myself so I will never understand it.
I know blizzard do a lot of mistakes but this is completely on the player.
Has nothing to do with trust.
Once the timelimit is up it’s not going to be a choice for a bunch of folks either.
Nevermind how a lot of players simply just play the game.
It’s on the player that Blizzards wants the players to do it’s server merges for them?
Cause in 99.9% of cases there really isn’t an option and Blizzard could as well have just merged servers and not told a soul about it.