I was so glad when they announced server connectionsâŚonly to be dissapointed before they stopped without merging my low pop realm. Would be nice to hear an update on the connectionsâŚ
Was especially a punch in the gut when they gave out free transfers to people on high realmsâŚ
Exactly, worst of all the server connections they did during fall went so smooth, with a weekly update on âWhoâs nextâ and suddenly it just stopped, but the work is half done, at least if you ask me.
When everything is sharded anyway, no one could possibly complain having more low-pop servers connected. I am tired of being sharded with the largest realms; but I cannot invite people to my guild or anything. Yet sharing the same area when it comes to farming/questing.
Itâs unfair to say the least, and it baffles me no more connections are being done ASAP, before servers shrink any further; as it was a complete sucess for those who were merged earlier this year.
Sadly none of the servers I play on, were part of this merge.
Itâs pretty bad here to. Lots of times my herbs arenât getting sold like come on we are at the start of a new expansion!
Empty dead guilds with no chatting whatsoeverâŚI really miss talking to people as I play
Itâs also strange nothing is done to some extend at least. We all pay for the same subscription. It doesnât mean the servers should be the same, but at least it shouldnât limit your experience, in tersm of lag, having queues, or dead realms without enough capacity to even raid mythic or being able to trade.
Youâre welcome to add me, I play more Alliance now than horde, so if youâre up for some M+ youâre welcome to tag along?
Mmâyeah we had a thread going for a long time, sad part is that there arenât 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&Aâs, 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 âcommandmentsâ because they sure as hell donât 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,
AGREED! please merge azuremyst and stormrage with another server its so dead rn!
I am really speculating why more merges arenât done, when they are so many servers that can still be put together, without even reaching close to the amount of high servers. Iâve heard the excuse âbut then you get a server surnameâ 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 weâve 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 donât have time for that.
They need to fix servers first, Iâm still having those random cpu spikes at peak times.
I agree, and it doesnât 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 isnât 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 weâve 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! Itâs 2020 and the game hasnât 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 shouldâve 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.
Itâs 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. Hereâs to hoping our clusters will be connected to others soon.
We need either connections or free transfers.
This is extra prevalent when considering legendary base items. On my server I can get my 235 legendary for 20k, my friend had to pay 260k on his.
Free transfers are useless though. People never move to low populated servers. And Free transfers from a low-to-xx wouldnât 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.
I personally think that free transfers from high/full to low pop servers would be much better than connecting all the medium-pop servers.
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.
Iâd rather sit in a 15min queue every single time I have to login than playing on a dead server, with a dead AH.
Because their connections so far have been useless, and some even made things worse for people (Alâakir connected to Burning Legion lol).
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 couldnât 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 âremoveâ servers; so merging them together into clusters.
cries in azuremyst and stormrage. can literally not sell mats here, basically lose money posting things