Server merges happening

“and we will remove the rule on PvP realms that prevents players from having characters in both factions on the same PvP realm in Burning Crusade Classic.”

???

Not enough, and at least 10 months too late. Classic Activision Blizzard! By doing this now you’re going against your own arguments for not merging servers and/or allowing free transfers earlier. Milking your customers until the last drop. Pretty sure the only reason they’re doing this now is the cost of running a server is higher than they would earn from the remaining players paying for a transfer.

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Though miracolous the servermaintancecost for Era realms are nothing as they are still running.

This is so far a great move. Yet, people keep complaining lol…

Better real merges than crossrealm

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Except they went with a different approach and connected them instead of merging them.

This is not so -

Man I’ve seen so many posts of you and everytime I am speechless. This was a move to close dead servers that already got free transfers. Lets cross examine, c’mon shall we?

Bloodfang → FCT NOV 21
Celebras → FCT NOV 21
Dragon’s Call → FCT FEB 22
Dragonfang → FCT NOV 21
Dreadmist → FCT NOV 21
Finkle → FCT FEB 22
Flamelash → FCT NOV 21
Gandling → FCT NOV 21
Harbinger of Doom → FCT NOV 21
Heartstriker → FCT NOV 21
Hydraxian Waterlords → FCT FEB 22
Judgement → FCT NOV 21
Lucifron → FCT FEB 22
Noggenfogger → FCT FEB 22
Rhok’delar → FCT NOV 21
Shazzrah → FCT FEB 22
Skullflame → FCT NOV 21
Stonespine → FCT NOV 21
Ten Storms → FCT NOV 21
Wyrmthalak → FCT NOV 21
Zandalar Tribe → FCT FEB 22

There is not a single, A SINGLE server that not already got a free character transfer prior. All those servers had a combined population of 160! people (115 on the German RP server celebras). THUS this announcement is basically irrelevant (with the exception for the two RP communities). They just said “Hey these servers are not worth any server capacity anymore”.

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For those lazy to read that useless wall of text from Kaivax, here is the relevant information from the post:

  1. Servers that got FCT earlier will get closed on 10.08.2022. You may transfer your characters from there via either FCT or automatic transfer that will happen on 10.08.
  2. PvE to PvP transfer restriction will get lifted
  3. You will be able to create both, Horde and Alliance characters on one account on PvP servers.
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I unironically hope they just allow for cross faction gameplay in Classic too. This barrier that is preventing so many people from being able to play the game needs to go, in Classic as well.

… and Blizz closes down all the RP servers!

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They close all of the realms that got FCTs earlier. Blizzard doesn’t look on what type of servers those are. Low population = FCT = close on 10.08. It’s just a coincidence that all RP servers are on the list. Please don’t act like it was some sort of big conspiracy against RPers.

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This is false, factions are not preventing people from playing, populations on both are quite healthy, particularly TBC so this argument falls flat. Faction divide is the basis for WoW, they should never remove that, at least in these older versions, though i cannot support it in Retail either, ruins the feel of the game, the identity and it becomes incredibly stale. The basis for the faction conflict is the different stereotypes and ideals which constantly clash against each other, you can’t really change that without severely damaging the game itself.

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We at Zandalar Tribe have a small community that we love and that is slowly increasing. We raid Kara and ZT weekly together and are attempting Gruuls Lair on Monday for the first time. It’s something.

And now it would appear all of this is coming to an end? Haiya…

There argument is…

To maintain healthy populations for Burning Crusade Classic realms

Those that wanted to transfer have already taken the transfer, the rest of us are HAPPY with how things currently are. The population is a healthy one for us and it’s slowly increasing.

And if they decide to advance on their decision on August 10th (most likely, let’s be real), we may find ourselves on a non RPPVP server. They have yet to make an announcement whether or not we’ll have an RPPVP server.

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Please do not close ANY of the RP servers!

This goes for all 3 RP servers! We’re grown up persons - we can decide how we want to play!

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Well times change and honestly in the future I could even see the factions being merged into one, as they continue to defend Azeroth from whatever threat is thrown at them… and let’s be real this is what WoW was always about, it was never about Horde v Alliance, that was merely a sidething if you will.

Faction merge will never happen. If you are seeing that then you need to go and see an optician.

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Firemaw is currently locked for transfers and creation of new characters, that means that current faction population proportion is locked. If it was not we would see a lot of Alliance migrants very soon. However as restriction of having one faction characters on PvP realm would be lifted off many will level create and use gold to boost their Alliance characters, especially humans, and much more will use new Wrath boosts to reroll to Alliance. Noone would want to play underdog faction if no hope of reinforcement is in foreseeable future.

They are also removing the restriction of having only one faction characters in the same server and this lead to me thinking that maybe they will announce free faction changes in heavily unbalanced PvP servers.
Would you faction change from Ally to Horde on Alliance dominant PvP server to improve the balance?

WoW was about factional cold war. It is in the lore and core design of dual factional playerbase split that factions compete or even clash with each other, occasionally cooperating if external threat is too great.

The problem is that factional balance and PvE / PvE servers split had flaws in it. Uncapped character creation and migration caused us to have monofactional Megaservers.

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If the difference is too great noone would be playing on underdog faction.

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