Dude I just want to play on a healthy pvp pop realm with a good A:H ratio, or at least have more dungeons/raids to choose from as my schedule is upside down at times. I am sitting on Mograine seeing all the horde transferring day by day, still not even having badge vendor. Guild moved 2 weeks ago to Gehennas cause even they gave up, but I couldn’t justify the “investment” in moving 3 of my chars over there as I can literally buy plane tickets to another country for a nice city break with that amount
Just merge some damn servers already or focus free transfers to a single realm to fix this crap one by one. Damn twitting monkeys playing on our money instead of doing their job
I don’t think server merge will be on the cards until WotLK pre-patch at the earliest, for the simple reason you cannot have Horde and Alliance characters on the same server.
What happens if someone say Has a lv 70 Horde on Mograine and a lv 70 alliance character on Earthshaker and the two servers get merged?
Nothing, because if Blizzard merges servers they will use the Connected Realms system with retail that consists of merging two servers into one single server but keeping on the realm list as many entrances as realms there were before being connected.
That’s not what they are saying though is it? They’re not asking for Connected realms, they are asking for ‘Merged’ realms. Which based on the current release of Classic is not possible due to the faction restrictions…
They CAN do a lot of things, but a merger is not one of them.
I know that have not explicitly said Connected Realms
Connected realms ARE the way Blizzard has chosen to implement Merged realms on their realms. If Blizzard chooses to merge Classic realms they will use the system they have in place to merge realms: Connected Realms.
Precisely that is why if Blizzard merges realms they will use Connected Realms. They won’t make another different system to merge realms when they already have it implemented on a system that avoids all those kinds of limitations such as máximun number of characters, alliance/horde characters, or character names.
Also Connected Realms proves that Blizzard has a terrible fear to let people see the realm list of the game reduced, which you can see on Retail in which there are groups of connected realms that originally were up to 10 independent realms that for all purposes are one single merge realm but yet on the realm list you will see all the realms available. Blizzard wants to avoid at all costs that people log into the game and see the list of realms reduced, they will do all they can to merge the realms while keeping the illusion the number of realms has never been reduced.
And there simply IS not enoughAlliance players to go around. Servers will always be or become imbalanced. This is not to say that Blizz should not have done or still have to do something. Only that a lot of vbalanced PvP servers is a pipe dream. They will grow, thrive and die. Blizz can do something to mitigate this, but they cannot, and I think should not, prevent it totally.