Mmāyeah we had a thread going for a long time, sad part is that there arenāt many people contributing to it.
Which is baffling to me since it affects a lot of people. Hell, it would benefit the bigger servers as well if the other servers were healthier.
I have tried asking Blizzard many times on Q&Aās, social media, this forum and such and was always met with silence. When they stopped the connections in the death of night I kept on asking but they just ignore you.
I wonder why they keep their ācommandmentsā because they sure as hell donāt follow them and that has been for quite a while now.
Just look at the recent Q&A, compare that with the months before Shadowlands. Constantly telling us: we hear you, we are listening. Not even a month into SL and its back to: we know better.
The longer it takes, the fewer there will be to contribute to the thread, as people quit the game, when their guilds die or move server - and not everyone can afford it. Stuff like that.
Now it just feels like the right time to ask for more merges. Shadowlands is at full-power,
I am really speculating why more merges arenāt done, when they are so many servers that can still be put together, without even reaching close to the amount of high servers. Iāve heard the excuse ābut then you get a server surnameā but honestly, most of us have that already; so it makes no difference in the end.
There are plenty of servers that still need merges to maintain somewhat of a stable playerbase.
What saddens me most, is how weāve gone into, what i personally think is the best expansion of all time, yet there are only 2 Mythic guilds left on my server; so finding a spot for your desired class is pretty much impossible; unless you make your own Mythic-team but I donāt have time for that.
I agree, and it doesnāt help any servers that these issues exist. Sharding only created the illusion of a living world, but gives none of the benefit.
When large servers are sharded with smaller, people also get unplayable lagg when sharded with Draenor for example.
And when Blizzard isnāt taking care of the server issues, more and more people feel forced to leave smaller servers behind because Blizzard let them die in 1-2 expansions as the limit is reached getting enough Mythic guilds going. Some servers only have 1-2 mythic guilds in terms of capacity.
Meaning everyone would leave to the largest servers, as people are paranoid of other servers dying, because weāve seen a handful go from Full from WoD to completely dead in Shadowlands.
The gap between the largest and smallest servers have never been bigger and it hurts the game! Both in terms of queues, lagg and just completely unsatisfactory player experience.
Server issues must be addressed now! Itās 2020 and the game hasnāt run properly since Legion to be honest.
Here with a plea for help from Connected Moonglade. Our cluster has bled dry to the point where the vast majority of both the mythic and casual raiding playerbases have transferred to servers such as Tarren Mill, Silvermoon, Draenor, etc., most likely never to return. Servers that have had issues with queues for years, but presumably remain open to migration because it brings in money. It definitely stung to see Darkmoon Faire and Earthen Ring get connected to the rp-pvp cluster when those two realms shouldāve been merged with us years ago.
Meanwhile we are either forced to pay for a transfer or pay a subscription for an inferior product, seeing as server population cannot be seen as separate from gameplay quality in an mmo, unless one were to play it as a single player game where other players essentially function as interchangeable accessories, something I suppose Blizzard have been steering toward for years with features such as LFD, LFR and cross-realm pugging.
Itās a shame because Shadowlands is shaping up to be a good expansion so far, with Castle Nathria being the best first tier in recent memory.
Thank you Slimteddy for continuing to double down on the issue. Hereās to hoping our clusters will be connected to others soon.
Free transfers are useless though. People never move to low populated servers. And Free transfers from a low-to-xx wouldnāt work that well either as it split communities.
Last time there were free transfers you could move from High populated to other high populated. Everyone just choosing the next-in-line high populated server, and everyone went to Stormscale and Outland.
Last time we had free transfers though. No one moved. Free transfers have never solved the problems for the low populated servers, but only is a temporary relief for the biggest servers offering transfers.
Why should anyone move to a low populated server? Almost every aspect of it, is worse than staying on a high populated server.
Iād rather sit in a 15min queue every single time I have to login than playing on a dead server, with a dead AH.
For my server it was connected in early WoD and it literally saved the server, and went up to 150 raiding guilds or so. It went back to being High populated and back to normal.
But Blizzard couldnāt keep the playerbase through WoD, Legion and BFA and since every expansion our servers active players listed on Wowprogress, and guilds too, halves almost every single expansion.
The problem here is, Blizzard have too many servers compared to the population. So instead of spreading the playerbase thin, the best thing is to āremoveā servers; so merging them together into clusters.
They should remove realms anyway, just merge it all into one big server so that people are not left out.
We moved our guild from Draenor to Bladeās Edge and now we are struggeling to get decent raiders into the guildā¦
So first we couldnāt play because the server was continuously having a stroke and people either couldnāt get in or just lagged out in general preventing any form of playā¦
And now we canāt get any decent raiders in so progression has come to a stalemate, even recruiting on forums wonāt lead to anything conclusive.
They should have less servers overall. There are so many why not just delete some and then they get moved somewhere else. If not merge way more. Azuremyst has been low pop forever rn why is not merged yet?