Maybe my expectations just too high? Nevermind retail being dead and possibly the worst expansion run since Legion, the only little bit of hope we have left to relive some nostaliga and possibly save wow is Wrath…
And all we get is unplayable servers and free transfer option to a realm that is already full? Taking some accountability & addressing this is just too much to ask for…?
This is how you lose subscribers… I’ve played every expansion since original Wrath, bought Shadowlands and quickly regretted, now I came back for Wrath and I can’t even enjoy the game without extroardinary amounts of lag?
The og realm system is badly outdated on top of being poorly managed, we should embrace something new like the world system from Runescape (Just login to whatever realm you want to, one realm is full just login to the next) instead of waiting for it to get so bad they bandaid it with Crossrealming.
How would AH work then? It would have to be 1 big AH then, which would mess with prices. Otherwise prices will be higher or lower on specific realms, which will cause mega servers still.
You think ALL of the bots combined, working the same AH, would give you a living chance of selling anything? Really? That’s a lot of bots, 24/7, working the exact same AH, supplying with insane amounts of mats
Ironically the AH system is outdated and HORRIBLY managed by blizzard as well, Runescape has a better system (The Grand Exchange) where you just list sell/buy orders for that too.
It might seem like it would make bots more effective yes but actually not, as the value of gold and thus the value of botting would decrease as well. As well as consolidating bots that the little that blizzard cares about them would be more effective as well.
So the value of gold would inflate but bots would just be equally less effective.
No matter how you put it, doing this would destroy the economy. Imagine all the gold suddenly being able to be transferred from realm to realm like that… It would suddenly give unlimitless gold selling, since they don’t have to worry about having gold on more than one server
Perhaps a bit bold but nobody with an IQ over 10 can deny how blizzard has basically wasted well over a decade of RND of quite basic systems (over time) like realm openness or consolidation (a better system than Cross realming) or the default auction UI.
do you want all the smoke in them poor microchips to leak out. as in no more smoke in the servers? you do know that all microchips work on smoke right. and when its gone the chip is dead.
with the current software that solution would fry the systems.
could that solution be used somewhere, yes clearly, but only in a platform build ground up for it. so perhaps a WoW 2 - with the entire backend build for a single realm. with several servers sharing the load. but with the live servers in classic, the closest you get would be x-realm and sharding
There is significant difference between the player count tho. There is no mmo on the market that have even close to that load wow have to manage, and they actually do well in this regard.
Yeah their only 2 new realm idea is questionable given the hype, but on the other hand everyone can see how the other classic expansions died out, and wotlk will not be an exception either. A few month into wotlk, 80% of the players will going to quit.
After a few months the situation will be better, and it’s not like it would be a race, especially that due to we having 3.3.5 spells in early content the balance will be a mess until icc content anyway…
In contrast WoW also generates much more revenue with over double the monthly sub compared to RS and no F2P option.
It’s a now problem without a now solution. Except it’s a recurring problem that blizz has proved inept to invest into fixing with a long-term plan so we’re likely to end up with Cross-realms again sooner than later.