Hi guys,
Apologies if similar topics have been posted, but I couldn’t find much and this server is in dire need of a bit of help and I’m hoping this might build enough traction to get eyes on it from Blizz. I am aware of the SoD dev’s stance on character transfers and that they have no current plans to open up free or paid character transfers, but I, and I imagine many other players are caught between a rock and a hard place.
Currently the population of Lava Lash EU sits at a rough estimate of 1500 Alliance players and a whopping 650 Horde players. It is the only EU SoD server marked as ‘Low’ population at all times, even peak times in the evenings and at the weekend. The server, at launch, was fairly active and saw a pretty healthy amount of players (as expected), but it has been on a fairly rapid decline, especially since the launch of Phase 2. Many level 40’s on the realm, unless they have a flexible schedule and are in one of the very, very small handful’s of active guilds that are raiding, are essentially at a stalemate because there are zero PUG’s and even groups for levelling dungeon’s are next to non-existent (even after the recent buff). After hitting 40, farming up some gold and getting a mount just a few weeks ago, what felt like a somewhat active population has died a miserable death.
It doesn’t feel good knowing that the options are either A) abandon the server and re-role, wasting a considerable chunk of players time or B) re-role from Horde to Alliance and using the mutual AH to transfer over whatever gold I have left, just to be met with the same situation that isn’t QUITE as bad as the alternative.
Please reconsider your stance on free migrations, let us off of this dead server and join the two medium pop servers (Crusader Strike & Chaos Bolt EU) so we can actually play the game outside of sitting in Org and spamming the chat for 2 hours trying to get a full group together in the middle of a Saturday afternoon.
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Please just don’t make us only transfer to PVP only realms. Many of us don’t wish for the world ganking
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Fair enough, I can see that being an issue with a lot of players, and I’d love to stay PvE too but at the moment the situation on Horde is so bad i’d honestly take anything lol
It feels like, half of the Horde population isn’t even visiting the Realm-Discord. So i am wondering how much attention this will get.
OT: Damn right though. Felt super alive on Horde after release of P2. Now it’s just a pain in the ***. AH ->dead, PUGs ->dead, even 5 mans like RFD or SM are taking ages to get together. Just sad.
IMO Wild Growth is the only choice, for obvious reasons. Cba getting my small amount of playtime wasted by stupid corpse camping. Been there, done that. After classic and firemaw era, its been enough, as the boomer i became.
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Yup we need free transfers to Wildgrowth asap
its bad on alliance also, no one talks, no RP, no one cares about making groups just sit in city typing LFG occasionaly and then give up, what are people doing on rp/pve realms? theres no pvp here and barely any PvE lol wot
Lava Lash is not dead. Its population is more than OK by general WoW standards. It only appears dead compared to the overpopulated realms of SoD.
I play Horde on Lava Lash in order to forget the total people-infested mess with 10+ overrun layers that Lone Wolf is. Please do not force us to transfer to any of those horrible megaservers.
The only problem with the server is that people do not roleplay.
I rerolled to Wild Growth because Lava lash was so dead.
Just create a 2nd character and see how far you get. It doesn’t take as long as you think.
This needs more attention.
This is SoD forum, sorry.
IDK, it is not my problem, but some people like smaller servers. With free transfers, you would kill it for everyone. Maybe Bliz should do a survey about merging that server with something else.
Merger is probably a way. Idk, what are the upsides of small server? The downside is the economy, inability to find dungeon groups, the world looks dead and sad.
As a horde player i must say i’ve noticed decline of players. Pvp wise , Ashenvale event was hard to win in ph1 (still doable). Stv event luckily doesnt affect small amount of players called horde. Pve i cant say much about that, as i joined good active guild. Empty AH is another thing.
This feels like a private server ,back in the days.
Probably each week till ph3 activity will slowly die out. Noticed many players leaving their chars too.
As roleplay is minimalistic this server could be as good as merged with other pve server.
Think that you lose some players otherwise that wont spend time on doing it all again - but im not sure how much work this would mean for devs.
Not sure its worth the effort for that amount of players that are here.
The only note was back at the start , that devs would consider it only in situations similair to which we are in right now. So who knows.
Think merging is best option so that we wont have even more dead server or only one faction alive. On PVE server people could still play their RP if they would want to.
recently is wanted to play some SOD, stopped playing SOD in P1.
so i just wanted to see what i can do now we are near P6.
Loggend into my old chars on this server only to find out the server is closed for other players and it is dead. When i mean dead it means there are no players online but why is it then locked ?
Last wacraft log upload was more then 2 months ago based on “ironforge.pro”
Trade chat activiti zero.
Check if free transfeer is open trough the shop button at character screen
Don’t bay a transfer! As you can’t use it.
Yep, and i said absolutely nothing about paid transfeer. So why mention it?