So, now Era has been out for one and a half years. We started with half dead clusters and asked for a merge of all realms of the same type. (Pvp with PvP and so on). Instead we got free transfers to ONE server.
What that happened was that people with either 10 characters or characters of the opposing faction on the server could not transfer.
However most people transfered and things were at least better, but it left totally empty clusters behind. The free transfer was not communicated well enough and there were people logging on to the now dead clusters finding noone and in the end quitting the game.
Now a year later the same issues occurs again with the SoM players needing to transfer. This time blizzard realize the problem with the faction restriction since a lot of SoM players couldn’t transfer. They however still seem to have missed the character limit problem and the issue with dead Era clusters.
What needs to be done still is to merge all the clusters of the same sort (PvP with PvP, PvE with PvE, Rp with Rp and servers of the same language together.) This to not have dead clusters left behind where old players log in to emptyness and quit.
Also the character limit per server needs to be removed keeping only the global character limit. As it is right now there are no real options on where to play. The server choice is just artificial anyway since there isnt more than one cluster with players per type and region with an active community and all it does is to make you need to have chars on several servers that are connected in the same cluster anyway.
Now the problem is that blizzard doesn’t seem to read the forums (especially outside of NA) or understand these things, so how do we communicate these things to them and make a change happen?
What we need are:
Merge of all clusters of the same type
Removal of the 10 chars per server character limit
Bonus wish if the char per server limit is removed:
Free transfers of characters within the same cluster to the main server on that cluster (eg to Firemaw in case of PvP)
The character limit wouldn’t even matter, if they could just allow transfers to more than one era realm.
Another bonus wish: Allow transfers to German/French Era realms as well. I know you quietly renamed them all to English, but come on… they are not.
As to how to communicate with Blizzard: NA forums (with lvl 10 toon on US trial account), Twitter or even Reddit all seem to be better than this official EU forum. Sadly.
There is a difference between Merged and Connected realms. I agree they should be connected (most already are) - but merged? No, that will give naming problems.
Not everyone reads the forums and know about the transfers. I pop on to the old cluster now and then and every time I see some sad souls that when I talk to them have no idea that the transfer exist or that the game is actually alive somewhere. Having dead clusters is not good for anyone.
A big problem is that Blizzard havent announced them yet in EU. All we know is from the US forums, so it is not easy getting information about transfers.
They should be connected yes. Merging the clusters to connect them to one cluster (with several servers). The point is that there should not be any dead clusters (like pvp 2 with Gehennas for example) when they could be connected to the rest
Yes, the 2 PvP clusters has been discussed many times here: why doesn’t Blizzard connect them? It could boil down to a technical issue with too many realms in one group, but that should be fixable.
Alternatively, shut down some of the 100% dead realms (Ten Storms for example) and connect the rest.
Instead of a server merge or worse a ‘consolidation’ like the one we had in Wrath C. I have a suggestion:
The TAB & Connect solution
It is less invasive, easier to understand, giving no naming chaos, or disappearing characters, and leaves us free to have more than 10 character on any given realm type.
Now in the Realm selection screen we have these tabs below: Seasonal, Russian, Classic Era.
I suggest these tabs:
Seasonal,
Russian,
Classic Era PvP,
Classic Era PvE,
Classic Era RP.
In this way all PvP can co-exist and still be connected to one another, same for PvE and German servers, but we avoid the naming, moving, level-losing etc hyper-mess of the consolidation.
ZT, HW and Celebras should should not be merged or connected, but be placed in the RP tab.
We all ask for clustered servers, but Vanillataur focus on ordering them on the tabs to make it easier to see and select the realms. And then alll reaoms under each tab is connected (with Seasonal as an exception, should there come a SoM2).
Yes, but in addition I want tabs, so that the returning / new / whatever players are not left in the dark as to where to play
We would actually end up with several more tabs in the Eu servers:
English PvP, PvE, RP-PvP, RP-PvE, (4)
German same PvP, PvE and RP (3)
French PvP and PvE, (2)
Russian PvP and PvE (2)
Spanish PvP (1)
because once again massacering the language servers … please, no.
And I just posted this in the US forum - I suffered through ten levels of Island expedition - better use it!
I mean this would be fine and good, but I think this would take some actual developer time and testing beyond the systems already in place, so it’s probably a bit much to ask from blizzard with the state that is atm. Merging the clusters and removing the character limit of 10 characters per server would at least be doing the needed part for us to play all our characters and have every player included on an active cluster.
Ui changes and convenience, while being nice, isn’t as important.
