Why to stay playing on the official server

WoW Classic Mists of Pandaria Classic Discussion
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Hello,

after a long break from the official servers (I played on the official server on the Cataclysm datadisk a long time ago) I returned to Vanilla Classic, I stayed on TBC Classic and now, after a half-year break, I also returned to WotLK Classic.

For many years I refused to pay for the service and experience that other free servers fully provided for me. I came back out of nostalgia, mainly because I believed that Blizzard had learned their lesson and the game would be functional, as much adapted as possible for today (for example, I absolutely do not understand why people can buy a boost, but there can’t be a Random Dungeon Finder in the game - so the argument about “classic” is an oxymoron) and the generation that will come back to play it (after all, we have gone from students to working people, we have children, families , other activities).

It didn’t happen that way. Already at TBC, I began to notice an incredible amount of bots, buying gold, selling accounts on my server, and the whole game gradually went in a bad direction. The community was becoming more and more toxic and it was no longer the right experience.

Blizzard has always boasted that they want to guarantee players a “true Vanilla, TBC, WotLK experience”, but instead we have unbalanced servers, a lot of bots, dysfunctional economy and a long-term declining number of players.

After logging in to my server, I was shocked. In half a year, my already fine server became a server on which 40 people play for the Alliance and 15 thousand people for the Horde. The auction doesn’t work, I can’t even put together a raid for 5 people, there are farm bots all around, I miss most of the game content and experience. However, the admins will not make a free transfer to another server. My friends wanted to go back, but similarly they have trapped characters on a dead servers. I refuse to pay for the transfer if I did not cause bad functionality and balance of the server. I really don’t support this Blizzard money policy.

And so the question - why to stay playing on paid - non-functional - servers and not go to one of the free servers, which is fully sufficient for fun with friends and guild? Why should I have to pay for a move due to dead server caused by Blizzard’s decisions and not me?

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Why do you ask this on forums instead of asking yourself?

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Because after 5 attempts to contact the people in charge at Blizzard I didn’t get a response and maybe someone will notice this post.

But it’s not just about me, it’s about the thousands of people who left the game for the reasons mentioned. However, I am looking for solutions instead of excuses, and maybe one of the players here on the forum has a similar experience and will tell me what can be done, or how he perceives it.

Isn’t that exactly what the forum is for?

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Blizzard don’t read the eu forums

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All that for my realm is all horde now.

You have two choices, pay to transfer or pay for a faction transfer.

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There’s a 3rd choice, rather unpopular though but there is one: reroll on a more busy server.

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They did vanilla as it was technically so it was min/maxed to how it was NOT played back then. So it was “true vanilla” in one aspect while the other led to mono-faction realms and mega-realms.

For personal fun - no reason to be forced to only Blizzard. Especially seeing how “Vanilla+” ideas are popping off with good quality on top of that.

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I find your post important for a number of reasons but the one that stands out to me is the dead servers or the 1 faction servers.

Those sitting on a dead faction/server have always been neglected by Blizzard, as if they want to push their paid transfers/faction changes through ppl’s throats, with force if they have to. In retail it took them about 12 years (might be a year or 2 off but you get what i mean) to acknowledge AND do something about those situations: Linked Servers!!

But they’re going down the same road again it seems as they did in retail, would be sarcasm to think they want the classic experience as genuine as can be on that part.

This time however they themselves were the cause of abandoned factions / servers, therefor it is my opinion that they should give the ppl left behind a solution that they aren’t giving to ppl who had been away (on a break f/i).

Telling the ppl i speak about above to re-roll/paid character migration/paid faction-change to me is a big fat middle-finger to the ones on said dead servers/faction.

I don’t know why Blizzard doesn’t realize why on this part they are performing gutter-customer service but the need for the money for those paid services must be very dire.

Blizzard does read the EU forums, i hope they give this thread some extra attention.

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No, they don’t. Sorry to be this straight but I’d hate to give people false hopes.

Why would they do something about people on dying servers or already dead servers/factions? Hundreds of players are paying for faction change or server transfers each week, out of pure desperation (just see Thekal’s population being continuously absorbed by Megaservers). That’s 100% effortless money for Blizzard, they don’t have to move a finger and money is flowing on its own. It would be more than dumb from Blizzard to willingly rid themselves of something so good.

To backup this, you can look up past server consolidation blue posts. Dead realms got free transfers as a result of consolidation. It didn’t help players even at slightest but it did free up some resources that can be used elsewhere to generate more money on Blizzard side.

Only disappointment awaits those who have faith in Blizzard doing the right thing. Don’t expect anything good from Blizzard, they aren’t going to help. Either pay for transfer/faction change, reroll or quit. Those are only realistic options that will actually have effect.

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I don’t support your conspiracy theories.

Blizzard has a responsibility towards customers who are already paying a monthly fee. They have to deliver their product to the best of their knowledge and make sure customers get what they were promised. Their way out of the latter is advising ppl to re-roll which imo is absolutely cheap and indifferent.

They are very well aware of the fact that ppl get attached to their characters because of time and effort invested in which lies the force towards paid faction/server change.

Their concern about ppl being able to keep their own nicknames seem to weigh heavier on their chests than ppl actually getting what they may expect from the game (reason for linking servers in retail they said instead of merging them).

Letting ppl rot away on underpopulated and / or unbalanced servers shows negligence, they are in default imo.

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TS wants to bargain with a seller who obviously doesn’t care about every single buyer. Either start a new character, or pay for a comfortable game. There is no line in the user agreement about the balance of factions, and the fact that Blizzard does not do lfg cross realm has long been known.

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I was once in your position.
I started just with TBC Classic prepatch on Mograine. I have chosen the biggest “Medium” realm because I was afraid of huge queues. The realm was very well alive and health at the start. However population decline started towards end of P1 and even accelerated through P2. Towards end of P3 situation got very bad because guilds started disbanding due to insufficient signups and recruiting is close to impossible on dying realms. Gradual population decline is a natural thing so I hoped for Blizzard to acknowledge it, do the right thing and let us leave the prison. I spammed blue FCM post 4-5 times a week for 4 months. And I was not alone, many joined and asked the same. My resistance got finally broken at the start of P4 when I paid to move to Gehennas. I said to myself, if queues are what it takes to be on healthy realm, so be it. And that was the best decision and I do not regret single penny from the transfer.

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Blizzard na tebe absolutně kašle. Jestli jim dáš 25 eur za transfer nebo ne je jim úplně šumák. Tvoje vlákno nikdo z Blizzardu neuvidí, tohle fórum je tu jen aby chytalo stížnosti, jako ta tvoje a ty si přestal zatěžovat podporu dotazy, na které podvĕdomě už znáš odpověd’. Nikdo z Blizzardu ho nečte, jen 50-100 magorů jako já to tu trolí.
Tak sklapni a plať nebo jdi na pirátskej server. Žádnou jinou odpovĕď tady nedostaneš.

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Or the 4th, quit and play on private servers that care more about delivering an authentic WotLK experience.

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Google translate? Lebo ak hej, tak celkom slušná práca, to sa musí uznať. Zlepšujú sa tieto prekladače.

Why did we start to talk in our native languages btw? I am too lazy to read Forum ToS, but am pretty sure that is not allowed.

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It’s just a guilty pleasure of mine when I see posts by Czechs, since they by and large can’t help but announce their country of origin with their guild tag. You can report me, not like anyone reads it anyway :grin:

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Not going to report anything. Was just curious because I found the translation too good to be a mere translation :smile:

For foreigners that might read this, I am not even Czech (I am from Slovakia), but we naturally understand Czech language almost completely.

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I always thought that people behind private server stretch their efforts only to provide better experience than concurrent project to increase the popularity of theirs and attract more players.
Highly doubt they will ever go that far as to provide 100% Blizzlike experience since they can obtain cease and desist warning at any time.

While I’m not happy about the current state of WotLK Classic realms, still unsure if it’s truly worthy to pay that much extra to transfer all of my characters or just transfer this one and start leveling all of my alts again because I’ve started to play some of my alts back in Vanilla Classic and I don’t want to delete them just like that only because they are not max level and geared from Northrend raids.

Still, despite all of that, I would rather deal with all the BS that Blizzard throw at WotLK Classic community than downgrade my game-play experience to private server level.

Also since we already went down the rabbit hole… While it might not be directly against the ToS to mention private servers as whole in their existence, it’s certainly not OK to mention specific one or suggest to go playing on private server. Let’s not do that.

If you started to play WoW Classic because you really like the game for what it was, you should be able to deal with what Classic eventually become and either clench your teeth and pay for the transfer or start your experience all over again with new character on realm in better conditions.

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That’s the same as re-rolling, i hope you can see that as well.

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Third option: go back to private servers which are more balanced in terms of factions.

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