No Allies on our server, and another Horde guild is transferring because they cannot recruit, the empty world makes people not want to play, they can’t get groups for dungeons, when they’re benched they can’t get pug raids.
If a few of our raid team decide to stop playing we won’t be able to raid, many players have already said they’d stop playing rather than pay to transfer multiple characters.
EU English PVP servers Dragonfang, Judgement, Dreadmist, Skullflame, Gandling, Stonespine, Bloodfang, and Noggenfogger could be merged, to give a slightly Horde biased server which would be fun to play on but still was smaller than Gehennis or Firemaw. If these near empty servers die there is no incentive for players to return to them in later phases, or if/when WOTLK Classic comes out. So you make a few $$$ from transfers, but long term you lose the subs and kill the game.
Unfortunately for you more people would pay for a transfer than cancel their subscription so Blizzard doesn’t have any incentive to offer free transfers
Just give free transfers, there were free transfers waves back in tbc, but this time give free trans from dead servers to mega servers, it will not harm anything.
so let them have paid name change, and it will easy support this 50 free transfers. There is enough weird players who will change name, more than players on dead servers.
The people who have “no problem to pay” have already transferred. The people who have a problem are stuck in dead servers. And it’s not a money issue for most, people are just reluctant to pay for something that Blizzard should handle for them as normal customer service.
Blizzard should have some kind of minimum standards for their games that would keep them playable for most players. If this issue will not get solved by Blizzard, you can take that as a statement of their customer service practices.
You pay monthly subscription to play an >MASSIVE MULTIPLAYER< ORPG - if your server is dead/dying Blizzard should provide you access to this either by merging servers or providing free character transfers to servers with larger populations.
Blizzard should be way more hands on saving dead servers by either merging low pop servers or providing free character transfers from “dead/one faction servers” to more healthy servers.
Think it would be fair some players paid for transfer and few who refused should get it for free, have special treatment essencially?
This free transfer campaign should have been fought before classic release, not now.
It’s not about what is fair, it’s about what is best for the game and the players.
Blizzard should have fixed the realms long time ago but because people like you are eager to pay Blizzard for doing nothing, issues do not get resolved. You are incentivizing Blizzard to just sit back and collect money. If more players would complain instead of just paying up, issues would get solved more likely.
Somehow I managed to join a PvP and PvE realm that wasn’t medium population at the time, nor now.
Most complainers joined medium to low population realms and are now complaining about it because there aren’t enough players. It doesn’t need hindsight just common sense, if you are going to insult me at least you can do is spell it right, “capitan heindsight” indeed.
Oke Capitan, you got the data, you got the facts Capitan. Set course for black hole
You don’t realize this has nothing to do with which original server customers joined, do you?
There are rats everywhere paying 25€ to transfer off their servers because they are too afraid to fight back. Then, server merges won’t ever happen until no one pays 25€.