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World of Warcraft Connecting Low Pop Servers With High Population Ones
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World of Warcraft Connecting Low Pop Servers With High Population Ones
Blizzard has announced via a post on the website that they are beginning the process of connecting multiple low-population World of Warcraft realms with the higher population ones. This process will happen over the next few months.
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This should teach you a lesson!
Shadowlands will help you grow back, or .. ruin WoW "for good".
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Why would they not do what every single developer has ever done and that is combine 2-3 low pop servers to form one well populated server?
So what i think they are doing is actually trying to lessen the load of hi pop server clusters.Why ,well isn't there or just recently an expansion or something,so there would have been or will be some population spikes on already hi pop servers.
This is the only thing that makes sense to me but then why did they word it the way they did?Hi pop servers obviously don't need any help,so yeah why bring a stable server into the fold when you could just combine low pop servers.
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.
Game's far from dead. They are still making the bucks. lol
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Don't try to church it up with a different term.
From a technical standpoint, they’ve always used the term connect when they bring servers together, because it makes the server group contain more realms that can share things like guild invites, trade items, shared auction house and Mythic raid together. It results in players having Name-Server1 and Name-Server2 when you invite them to stuff (defaults to your current server if you don’t specify a server name).
A merge in a traditional sense implies combining two servers, where JimBob-Server1 and JimBob-Server2 would both end up on the same server and thus have to resolve who does a name change.
I don’t think they are being coy with how they phrase, just using the internal lingo that they set to differentiate the two techniques.
That being said, this has been a long time coming. I raid lead on a dead server, it’s the fucking worst trying to convince 20 people to login every week and there’s no player pool to recruit from (you gain one and lose one like a constant rotation). I’ve felt for years now that they were just trying to strangle out the low pop servers until we pay for transfers. I’ve got guildies that refuse to transfer because they want every alt on the same server so we’re just stuck in a bad situation. I’m going to be very disappointed if this connection doesn’t help my server’s pop..
Surely less than the one who smokes playing without paying a subscription
I can form an entire group with NPC's,very capable npc's for FREE,while some WOW player is buying 5+ accounts to run his multi boxing.
I bet multiboxing is making Blizzard a bus load of money,plus all the rmt accounts as well.Imagine how many rmt have been banned then buy another account.
PsYcHoGBR said:
This idea makes "some "sense i could buy into that but do you really think that is Blizzard's mindset?Could they even find a low pop server that is for example 80% the opposite faction to balance it out?
I think i'll stick with this is a money saving idea because that is what Blizzard has been focusing on for the past 2+ years now,ever since they were scolded by Activision.
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.
Blizzard is still miles and miles ahead on the technical side. Sad for FFXIV players (like myself).