You’re the one claiming that the reason behind this is pure economy, and that Blizz is losing money on those servers.
I was the one asking
And everyone endowed with common sense and a bit of IT savvy knows that starting up a game for like 200 ppl and letting those 200 have a realm (or even 3) along many ohter realms are two different kettles of fish.
I am just saying that it’s probably not economically feasible to run a realm for 200 people. I have a masters in economics so unless you think you have better credentials please convince me of your wisdom.
You are claiming they can keep up 3 realms with max 200 people so that you can be happy. Please provide the cost numbers to support your claim. We can infer the income numbers quite easily by doing 200x15 euros for each realm. Do your costs exceed 3000 euro per realm a month then it’s game over. Not just server capacity costs but if they even need 1 employee to maintain that realm then you’re probably hitting the costs on that one employee alone.
I have two sons in the IT business - I’ll ask them for their best estimate of costs for a WoW realm - considering only running expenses as there’s no development, no support and no extras. Their best guess is a break even of 20 players.
I call bs. You asked that in 5 seconds with 2 sons and they gave you a ridiculous estimate which is in no way verifyable.
Guess I’ll still win the argument since approximately august this year those 3 realms will no longer exist and you claim to have been unsubbed.
I am celebrating my birthday in a few minutes, one son lives here, the other arrived as I began typing.
And no, you won’t win - and I won’t either - unless Blizz tells us why exactly they’re closing down those realms.
They don’t owe you an explanation.
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I didn’t ask for an explanation, you on the other hand seem to be invested in keeping your dead realm open.
So you think you can buy and maintain a server on 200€ a month… Could you provide me with the contact details of your sons I want to hire their services
I would be happy to be moved or move myself to another half–empty realm. My only problem is that there IS no such. I play PvE English. All three possible target servers are decidedly not half empty, not even marginally empty.
And I’d like to know why you are against people playing the way they like it?
If we, lets say 800 players on the 3 RP realms have not yet moved with free transfer being a possibility these last 4 months, it’s probably because we like it where we are.
How can this bother you?
Do your own googling.
You’re applying mental gymnastics because you’re invested in keeping your dead realm open. Can’t blame you for trying but what’s going to happen is going to happen, your realm will be moved to another. I have no interest other then trying to tell you why they might have come to this decision. This thread was not even about small realms but it was about my realm (Firemaw) which is not only the biggest classic realm but also the biggest in the world apparently (bigger then retail realms also). We got other problems like the massive queues that happened until the moment they locked it. That’s why unlocking it with a raiding+pvp population of still 31k would be very unwise.
Well I thank you and Dottie for the help.
No problem, Dottie is what they would call based (like having their own opinion and not caring what others think) these days but I generally like his/her posts. Sorry for your realm and good luck to you.
I had to read your post twice to see you meant biased. A simple mistake when English is not your first language.
I am sorry, based is a real word.
I am getting older as well so I’m always catching up to this kind of thing but the more you keep up the more you know.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=based
In case you don’t consider that a real dictionary it’s close to definition 2 of this actual thesaurus
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/based
Holy moly! Judging people by nationalities and putting em on same row as scammers…
I think the costs are not the real driver here. Blizzard never really closed the servers, exactly to avoid “Servers are closing. The game is dead” panic.
While technically they might had done it, but it was presented as merging of smaller realms.
What I like about firemaw being locked is that the bots that get banned won’t return. you can really see in AH prices rise like crazy.
First botters will use stolen and illegaly bought accounts of players that abandoned Classic WoW on Firemaw.
First off, keep the servers locked.
You only talk about the queue, and how it being unlocked won’t affect the servers at all, but you clearly have no clue how many issues the server is running in to with so many players being in the realm.
Firemaw has a population way higher than it already should have, and layers screw ups and unbelievable lag i.e happens all the time as soon as you enter a zone filled with players.
When others in the forum will argument why the servers should be locked, you simply fight back with nonsense, telling others to move out of Firemaw for some reason, while you’re the butthurt dude to late to the party.
Keep the servers locked, stick to another server and wait for realm balances