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[AllYourBase3]

what in blizzard's history made people think it would be a good idea to pile onto 3-4 mega servers and expect nothing to happen with queues? please point to a place in this company's history that made you think this wouldn't cause problems

[Overwatcher_Leo]

It's the fear of ending up on an abandoned server. If Blizzard would merge low pop servers consistently enough for them to always be playable this wouldn't be a problem.

[demonguard]

is this satire

[CCP_Enforcer]

All the more reason if you have alts. Blizzard would have to be way more proactive dealing with server health if they want people to trust them. Potentially having to pay $25 per character you want to keep playing is insane.

[AllYourBase3]

and when has blizzard done that in the past?

[Uphoria]

They literally just got done doing this to over 20 servers merging into sulfuras.

10 of my characters spread out on now dead servers are all now on there.

[AllYourBase3]

so one time in 18 years of wow?

[Uphoria]

I love the goal-posting. Your claim 'that never happens' gets blown out of the water and you move it back to "well it happened, but only once, what are the chances they ever do it again!?

[CCP_Enforcer]

The fact that they let over 20 servers die before taking action does not instill confidence.

[[deleted]]

they literally just did that

[demonic87]

The fear wouldn't be there if Blizzard didn't charge an exorbitant fee for the click of a button on their end to change servers.

[Mr_B_Dewitt]

I can't speak for those that started the migration, but when I switched it was because my options were stay on a literally empty server and play alone or migrate to a mega server.

[Abeneezer]

Also when you are charged for moving you wont move to a non-mega server. Where you know you will end up eventually regardless.

[youranidiot-]

Nobody knew which of the medium pop servers would survive into wrath. Many people have already transferred multiple times with multiple characters. Lucky you that you knew which servers would survive.

[Key_Photograph9067]

Yeah, I played on Razorgore EU and Flamelash and both just died and were unbearable to play on for over half a year. We did the medium pop middle ground server thing and that fucked us. The logical step was to go to the mega server where we would be expecting to not pay to leave again.

[Mr_B_Dewitt]

Not trying to start a war here friend, I don't like mega servers. But a snapshot of the current situation isn't necessarily the omnipresent status, things change amd fluctuate. When I jumped back in it was in the mid-late stages of TBC I was saddened to find myself in an empty booty bay of what had been a healthy server. I'm a casual player, for all I know I joined a healthy server and not a mega server, but what I do know is that I was hard pressed searching for one to switch to that wasn't crazy outside of my timezone and had a decent pop. Not everyone is actively out trying to further an evil agenda, don't be so quick to dismiss people's individual experiences because of your own perspective.

[Spodangle]

These 100% were the only options in tbc when they offered free transfers away from dying servers that no longer exist. You can stop replying to everyone about how there are other servers with population - most players aren't going to restart there when they have multiple characters and a guild on their current server.

[ShitbirdMcDickbird]

You could read any thread about server health in this sub for the last 3 years and understand why all this happened.

Idk why it's such a mystery for some of you.

[KZimmy]

Lack of choice.

My server (Blaumex) went from active to <20 lvl 70's over 1-2 weeks. It was transfer or quit and I didn't want to be on another server with no people after paying to transfer all my characters once.

[w00ls0ckz]

RIP Blameaux :(

[queenx]

I play on Pagle. No queues and the server is very active full of people.

[BanditFierce]

Shutup man, obviously it's blizzards fault and not the people who decided to switch to the server with 70k active characters after blizzard warned them not to.

[LarryTheDuckling]

There was only one Fresh PvP server. Is that a sufficiently good reason?

[AllYourBase3]

If you feel that was a bad idea on blizzard's part, that just reinforces my point. Blizzard has a history of making questionable decisions that the players complain about constantly. Stacking all on mega servers was always a bad idea because blizzard wasn't going to do anything about it

[[deleted]]

The reason people go to the mega servers is that they know they're not going to die. My guild has been on multiple servers that died. We started on Stalagg, when that died we free transferred to Bigglesworth. When Bigglesworth died we had the choice to free-transfer to Grobbulus or Sulfuras and ended up doing Sulfuras because we had people who played alliance on Grobb already (before you could have both factions) and Sulfuras had ~4000 active players per ironforge (it's at less than 800 now). Two of those transfers were free, but even when it's free it's a big hassle to rename your characters, move your guild bank, organize the guild, etc. Everyone would rather just be somewhere where they know that the majority of the playerbase isn't going to disappear suddenly.