If that’s the case your realm is likely sharded most times already.
January 2019 and we still havent got the slightest information about this problem.
The problem is getting worse…
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So what happens if you want to join a guild?
On my Horde characters I simply cannot find one because the population of that faction is so low.
No, I don’t want to here someone cleverly talk about how you should research servers blah blah or move server. This is an MMO, and that means you should expect to find enough players to do things, which includes outlandish ideas like expecting to be able to find a guild on any server.
I started on Saurfang many years ago now, probably some like Cata or earlier. Why the hell should I pay for a transfer or abandon them because Blizzard doesn’t want to put the work in to make servers function how they should?
People who argue they want ‘low pop’ servers are also idiots. NO server in an MMO should be SO low pop you can’t even do basic things.
A small population is not the same as an essentially non-existent one.
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warmode is different and alliance are the minority in it
No, it isn’t, and no, they’re not…
Oh i delight in the irony.that you have nobody to gank on your server.Cause dreanor is horde mostly.
They are actually we avoid it like a plague not to be ganked 10 to 1.
horde’s the one’s getting ganked
If that were true we’d get the lovely Alliance WM buff, we do not. The Alliance are the minority in WM.
Servers also no longer have any bearing on populations. You are put out into a WM or non WM shard, they are made up from people with the same game mode on as you, so from any server.
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It takes in account the entire region, not servers
An exception was made for RP servers, due to RP reasons
Exactly the Alliance are the minority in the whole REGION
Tbh, I think it’s good to have some low-pop servers. I, for one, like playing on a relatively low-pop server. Less mob competition, less spam in /2, e.c.t.
I get that most people don’t enjoy those experiences, but that’s perfect, because you wouldn’t want a low-pop server to have a lot of people on them anyway.
Merging realms… realms overall are stupid anyway… There should be one server for everyone, one per each language and one for RP.
Introduce surnames… Noone will cry about lost nick then~
Technology to do that exist for years!
Punyelf, servers dont matter?
What about the Auction House?
And mythic raiding guilds?
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There’s a difference between a low-pop and a no-pop server. In most cases no-pop because it ends up being stupidly one-faction biased.
The fact is this is an MMO, not single player game. That means your wishes have less credibility than people who actually want to see other people on the server, and be able to join guilds.
Anyway your argument is doubly weak, because sharding exists precisely to not only populate regions were there aren’t many; but also to de-populate regions were there are. That’s how it’s supposed to work anyway.
Again, just what do you think you signed up to when you played WoW? This is an MMORPG. Yes, it actually is. That means expect other people.
Please do not take my comments out of context.
That quote is talking purely about WM shards.
I have stated various times that server populations are important and why sharding is not a solution.
Sorry, i had no intention to take your comment out of context.
I just didnt noticed it was specific for WM, since the thread was and is not about WM but about server population (lack of it).
I can see how it seems that way. I have been on a dead realm and it’s no fun.
No need to be so hostile about it. I suggest you remove whatever is stuck inside your cavities.
Now, there was a great talk given by a Blizz designer at the GDC called ‘The loner: why some people play MMOs alone’. I would link it but I’m not high enough trust level yet. It will explain exactly why I and many other people play MMOs without particularly seeking to engage with large groups of people.
Also, I feel the need to point out that I wasn’t disrespecting anyone else’s wishes to get away from dead servers (though this option already exists in the form of server transferes) but more in the defence of atleast giving people the option of playing on them if they so wish.
Don’t even bring up server transfers as an ‘option’. They aren’t free.
My responses are barbed because what you argue for is analogous to suggesting they tone down the focus on guns in Call of Duty. In no way should games be designed - even at all - for people who’s taste entirely conflict with core aspects.
Again there is a difference between LOW and DEAD servers. One is acceptable, the other is not. I’m sure you can work out which is which.
Is this an MMO or not? That is the simple question you have to ask yourself. Now consider the absurdity in someone thinking “Oh I like running around and never seeing another player.” and not realising that while it may be to their tastes, it is entirely, entirely a broken state of the genre it is meant to be. No server should ever be dead.
Oh and playing alone is not the same as never seeing other players.