I am waiting 2 hours in queue for Firemaw, after paying 50 euro to get 2 characters here last year because my old server is dead. Do you want me to transfer off, to some other server that kind of looks good now? Will you guarantee that it won’t die or become unbalanced, and I will have to pay to transfer again?
Why do I as a player even have to deal with these problems (dead servers / imbalanced servers / queues), all the while I am paying a subscription to play?
At least the queues should be simpler to solve - with scalable servers. I am sure that in 2022 you can find a way. Just add a button to check like “see lfg only from x number of layers” to slow down the chat…
Some players will choose small servers, and some players will choose mega servers. No merging (that is bad because of player and guild names) and no cross realm - that would be even worse. Layers are a good solution.
Even if they were able to do that, they won’t do it.
The queue is the reason that prevent players to transfer to Firemaw.
Remove this downside and more players will transfer to Firemaw which at some point will lead to crash/lag or news queues.
Even in 2022 they can’t have 70-80k players per server. Especially on a old game.
Why should I start a new thread on this?
I want what we were actually promised. Servers without layers and Vanilla-like populations. How to achieve this I have no idea. It’s just as Pie-in-the-sky as your dynamic servers (or more layers even) where the AH and the launch of Wrath will still be a grand lag-party.
Official post saying the ultimate goal is no layers: All Realms in this Region are now One Layer -- 21 August Can’t remember where I read about it being in phase 2 and I am not going to spend hours looking to make you happy.