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sporeggar 19:00 server time saturday...
online horde = 70 players
online horde level 85 = 46 players

im gonna go on my DK which ive rolled on a med-high pop server..

sporeggar 19:01 server time saturday...
online horde = 69 players
onlines horde level 85 = 45

/peers for a fresh cow pat to throw at blizz

Joking apart blizzard you are just forcing people to pay to change realm you are taking the mickey out of people aged 12+ up (good one). I think in the long run this will not be the outcome you desire as with all other new titles it is alot cheaper to change games.

lol only just enough for a full MC run on sat night


Just a note few days ago Horde auction house 3800 items

I love how blizzard is telling us that this is something high on their list of something thats needs a fix when the problem has been around for years... Makes me really think they arent trying/care about fixing this ;/

Why would they care... as long as they keep gettin' that paper.

Laughing Skull
Korgal
Sporeggar
Etc Etc

ghostowns.....


Blizzards carecup is empty sicne TBC, pay or stay.
Lucky for us we can soon decide where we wanne bring our hard earned cash.

Many mmo's are comming out and some do realy look good.

I did a realm transfer a while ago from Al'akir to Haomarush but this was the dumbest move i have ever made...

Never thought that a realm could be this deserted :/
Time that blizzard migrate a couple of realms to get population up, if you ask me....
Wasn't it for the ridiculous realm transfer prices, i would have transferred to a other realm real fast!
Hopefully blizzard take some action (for the alliance side), but probably it's gonne take a long time before they'll take action....

I'll also bump this thread seeing as this is a very real issue.

Alonsus Horde side hasn't seen a lot of players either. Well there are some still there, but activity is down by a lot.

Just lower the !@#$%^- fees on realm changes

Sporeggars last 25man guild alliance side just announced they are changing realms, of course moving to a high population realm. Don't blame them, shame Blizz will take their money just so they can get a quality game experience though.

Less money for expensive actors for making "what's your game commercials", more money into solutions for the customers.

blizz should merge the low population realms , i'd gladly change my name for a bigger realm for free :p

paid transfer should only be for those who actualy wanna go to another realm to get more progress or whatever.

Lots of people don't even have a credit card or have parents that don't allow usage or don't have creditcards themselves.

Almost every MMO subscription based , has merged servers because some were dying , lots of technical problems , but at least the players were happy with it and enjoyed playing again.

With the amount blizz/activision earns a year on this game and starcraft and don't forget the big cashbomb diablo 3 it's a shame that they don't do anything about it.

Both WoW and Call of duty for example are turning in milking cows , trying to get as much money and not caring about anything else, not trying to improve or take some chances toward stuff the player base is asking.

But yeah they probably just ignore it just like that very big pvp concerns thread got 4 threads or something , can't remember.

So many mmo's out there that even do stuff better towards there customers even tho they have way less profit from it.

Even some f2p mmorpgs do more towards the playerbase.

They are just after the money.

I enjoy the game tho , but in another way im disgusted towards the attitude they have concerning customers.

Someone opted an idea to merge several realms into one really big one. Though 20K on each side is a bit too much.

What I was thinking is maybe they could link some realms, like they do with cross realm dungeons and battleground. Something like that. Not sure if that would be doable, but yea would be nice if it was I guess :). Not sure how it would work with double names then though.

Blizzard is getting money from us for things that they should solve on their own expense ! Character transfers must be a FREE service.

We pay for the game every year (new patch), we pay for the play time every month and guess what, to get a quality game experience we have to pay.

Gratz blizzard, epic fail.

cough ...but who cares, money are still gathering from transfers ...cough

Big lol to this post from "Vaneras" - (Sticky Locked) Free Character Migration (FCM)

" Please note: FCM is opened based on realm population tracking and analysis, not by request. If you're looking for a specific migration (from realm A to realm B), you are in most cases better off using Paid Character Transfer, or you could end up waiting for a very long time. "

population tracking and analysis ?????? rofl

You take a server with high horde population and low alliance population,
then you take a server with high alliance and low horde population.

Then you copy the characters to a new server, and wooo, problem solved.
Its not really hard, I know blizzard would like everyone to pay extra for transfer/faction change, but thats not really viable, I bought 4 transfers and 3 faction changes, and the server on wich I had 3 characters moved/faction changed, there is a low population problem on.

The solution is easy, if you want to fix it, just copy the characters to a new server, and close the old one (the people who sub again after a while will find their characters at the new server, and just to be sure you can backup the old data.This really shouldnt be a problem for a mega corporation like blizzard, it would improve our gameplay, and keep customers happy (and paying).

This thread doesn't deserve to be on the second page. I know people are a bit negative at the moment and I know alot of these problems have been there in the past. I do hope that staying civil about it and conrete it might actually solve things. As most threads in the past were "omg merge realms" "omg bliz sucks" etc, which they ofcourse won't even bother to read.

Just a small thought!

Ihealzerker, that's what I was thinking as well. Just put them together (FCM from one realm to another) to sort out balance on both realms.

21/11/2011 13:06Posted by Sheetca

Just lower the !@#$%^- fees on realm changes

That wouldn't help, to be honest. If they were too low, everyone would just transfer to popular realms, leaving the dead realms even more dead and many high pop realms would most likely get queues.

True, they need to be using the FCM to force merge several low population realms making an attractive group of Medium realms for new players and players on Full realms who want to escape without the risk of moving to a dying realm.

22/11/2011 13:23Posted by Cerúlean

True, they need to be using the FCM to force merge several low population realms making an attractive group of Medium realms for new players and players on Full realms who want to escape without the risk of moving to a dying realm.

Or just make package deals from the dying realms. Win - win situation in both. I'm sure people are willing to pay 20 euros if they can transfer ALL their characters away. We have to look from Blizzards PoV too still. As much as I'd hate to pay for it, it could be an option too.

Also bump. Bliz, any reply would be really appreciated...

I'm afraid we have no new information to add to threads on this topic, but as we have said before in previous related discussions, we want you guys to know that we are aware of the situation and that we are looking into ways that we may be able to help in the future.

We acknowledge that this is quite an important topic that many of you feel strongly about, but please don't interpret the lack of blue posts as a sign that we are ignoring it. We are constantly reading your feedback and your concerns, and we will let you know as soon as we have new information to share with you on this topic.

Well given how long this has been a concern and the speed with which other companies are able to do things like merge servers, this just really is not good enough.

17/11/2011 16:09Posted by Vaneras

We are currently not in a situation where we are ready to provide specific details though, but rest assured that we are taking this topic quite seriously.

How is it possible after years of complaints about the realms emptying that "The Company" still doesn't have an awnser?