I’d like to raise a concern that’s becoming increasingly obvious on many Cataclysm Classic realms – active player populations are dropping rapidly. Based on in-game activity, guild recruitment difficulties, and third-party tracking sites, it feels like we’re down to roughly 50% of the players compared to launch of Cataclysm.
This decline is affecting the entire server ecosystem:
It’s getting harder to find players for dungeons, raids, or PvP
Guild recruitment has become extremely difficult
Auction house and economy are slowing down significantly
Would Blizzard consider merging some of the lower-population realms? Or perhaps implementing cross-realm systems like in retail WoW – especially for dungeons, battlegrounds, and guilds?
Even cross-faction features (which exist in retail now) might be worth exploring to preserve the social and group experience.
Many of us love the Cataclysm era and want to keep playing – but the community needs help to survive and thrive.
We should merge all the servers onto 1 server now that MoP is right around the corner.
Leveling always feels better when there’s 39810 players competing over 20 spawns.
I’ve got literally forced to create a new character on Golemagg beucase the Spanish server Mandokir is literally dead with less than 500 players between both factions.
You can’t imagine how it feels to start from scratch with 0 currency because they now banned the gold trade between realms.
There is a need for a merge really. For months now on Pyrewood Village it has been completely pointless to expect to see a raid in LFG. Whether it is world or cities what you see is the same: no other players. Occasionally someone around who levels an alt just to do something. If this is not solved by merging PvE and PvP servers into one Mist of Pandaria will already start off very badly.
You’re all right — my brother plays on Pyrewood Village and even though it’s a one-sided server, it’s becoming nearly unplayable. Is there any way to bring this issue to the attention of the responsible Blizzard staff? Or do you know of any thread or information that would suggest whether Blizzard is planning to address this problem?
The only official way to send feedback is through the forum but from the experience I’ve had even on Wrath I’m not hopeful. The only hope is LFR so we can at least play the tiers.
A lot of the realms are still in a very healthy state and not everyone wants crowded realms so I disagree.
I really don’t understand why people who want mega realms aren’t already on Firemaw or Gehennas, they exist already and every other realm doesn’t have to merge to become exactly like them.
Same with Sulfuron, literally unplayable, it’s currently impossible to do any kind of recruitment. Free transfers would be good, but a mega-server with cross-server groups and guilds would be even better since transfers would bring character name issues.
How can I loose my name to a guy who havnt even played since six years ago?
As a SoD player who is about to join guildies on Gehennas/Golemagg horde, the only reason I’m not objecting to the PvP server is that they’re basically single faction servers so I absolutely would be one to object to this (unless we got a free server migration to PvE in which case I absolutely agree, go for it, 1 singular pvp server seems like the obvious fix to the mono faction server issue.)
Cross-Realm Queueing : Players in under populated areas of the world such as low level zones will be grouped together within a select pool of realms. The natural flow of questing will be preserved but the zones will end up less sparse. For highly-populated areas like major cities, this won’t be in effect.