As for era servers Over on PVE cluster it’s been quite active since the merge(tbc release), We have the guilds < The old raiders > Which progressed through mc all they way to naxx Which are now clearing every raid, < Panache > French/english guild progressing through Naxx, aswell as < Social guild >
Avrg Population of 200players during primetime each faction
Oh, I thought they transferred to Kingsfall already. In that case I guess Quel’Serrar will be added to the Era cluster once SOM ends. And people don’t all migrate to Wrath of the Lion King<tm>.
Players get to decide for each SoM character where to go. The SoM servers will close down, and - I guess - characters where no choice is being made will be force-migrated to an Era server.
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and I foresee a chaos not unlike the ‘consolidaiton’. There’s still characters out there not having arrived.
Unless you know something I don’t, then no. They are already linked with the ERA cluster, so I foresee they will be merged into the cluster. That will also solve the naming problem.
That would indeed be a smart move (a reason why I suspect Blizz to not do this ). Not as much chaos as the delete a server business and as you say the names-problem is solved.
I read something long ago about deleting the SoM servers, but I do not want to go looking + Blizz can have changed their mind since, or just deleted this
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Reading this post it sounds like the SoM servers will be discontinued and characters moved to either Era or Wrath:
Pretty sure blizzard will give option to transfer to either wrath or classic era but needed with playtime, Whilst if you forget to transfer within a limited time Your character will be frozen/closed dead with the som servers.
Lets not forget the ultimate bargain we got during last merge was it 50euro per character copy??
People that didn’t have playtime for a longawhile gonna have to throw dollas
That has been confirmed.
The question is more if SOM servers (the worlds) are merged with the ERA clusters, or they are deleted once characters are moved to ERA / WotLK.
The SoM realms are closing and near the end of the cycle you get to choose where you go. If you don’t choose you will get automatically to the PvE Era cluster or one of the PvP Era clusters, they won’t just delete them.
I am just looking for confirmation they will be CLOSING. Only part I have seen is Blizzard is saying chars are being “moved”, but that can mean anything literally.
Servers are already connected to the ERA Cluster. You can see that when you attempt to mail a character on a SOM server.
The name merging hell is avoided: no problem with already used names.
It is not just saying “Move Era / Move Wrath”, they will also have to make some logic which Era server to move to. (They need to make that logic to Wrath already, so maybe this frature is “free”).
Therefore it seems logical to merge the servers. But everything is possible with Blizzard.