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  • Smolderthorn
  • 0. Question to gms or admins   09/15/2009 10:08:55 PM PDT
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Will blizzard ever merge realms since you can do faction changes and due to low populated realms ?
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  • 1. Re: Question to gms or admins   09/15/2009 10:15:00 PM PDT
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  • 2. Re: Question to gms or admins   09/15/2009 10:16:56 PM PDT
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  • 3. Re: Question to gms or admins   09/15/2009 10:30:38 PM PDT
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Will blizzard ever merge realms since you can do faction changes and due to low populated realms ?



We don't currently feel that we have a need to merge realms. Though this may change in the future, our position is that it's not needed right now. This is largely because we have other ways of helping realms that are lower population than we would like them to be. We can offer realm transfers to those realms, as we have done in the past, or we can flag those realms to make them appealing to new and returning players. Both of these methods are effective at combating low realm populations, as is the release of new content which, causes many players to become far more active, which bolsters all realms. That is not to say that we aren't looking at other possible solutions. When we have more information on those options, we'll make sure to share it.
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  • 4. Re: Question to gms or admins   09/15/2009 10:43:21 PM PDT
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We don't currently feel that we have a need to merge realms. Though this may change in the future, our position is that it's not needed right now. This is largely because we have other ways of helping realms that are lower population than we would like them to be. We can offer realm transfers to those realms, as we have done in the past, or we can flag those realms to make them appealing to new and returning players. Both of these methods are effective at combating low realm populations, as is the release of new content which, causes many players to become far more active, which bolsters all realms. That is not to say that we aren't looking at other possible solutions. When we have more information on those options, we'll make sure to share it.
I don't know how much of the general population of players I represent, but it has been my experience that realms on the receiving end of free character transfers don't tend to be able to keep many of them.

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  • 6. Re: Question to gms or admins   09/15/2009 10:46:06 PM PDT
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We don't currently feel that we have a need to merge realms. Though this may change in the future, our position is that it's not needed right now. This is largely because we have other ways of helping realms that are lower population than we would like them to be. We can offer realm transfers to those realms, as we have done in the past, or we can flag those realms to make them appealing to new and returning players. Both of these methods are effective at combating low realm populations, as is the release of new content which, causes many players to become far more active, which bolsters all realms. That is not to say that we aren't looking at other possible solutions. When we have more information on those options, we'll make sure to share it.


U need some free character xfers to Muradin IMO.
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  • 7. Re: Question to gms or admins   09/15/2009 10:47:28 PM PDT
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Yeah, and a realm getting "recommended" status just further kills it.
Well it brings in the newer players who don't know why it's recommended and also don't have any friends currently playing, but logically you'd think there'd be relatively few of those at this point of the game's life cycle.

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  • 8. Re: Question to gms or admins   09/15/2009 10:51:51 PM PDT
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Any plans on merging battlegroups?

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  • Malorne
  • 9. Re: Question to gms or admins   09/15/2009 10:54:26 PM PDT
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We don't currently feel that we have a need to merge realms. Though this may change in the future, our position is that it's not needed right now. This is largely because we have other ways of helping realms that are lower population than we would like them to be. We can offer realm transfers to those realms, as we have done in the past, or we can flag those realms to make them appealing to new and returning players. Both of these methods are effective at combating low realm populations, as is the release of new content which, causes many players to become far more active, which bolsters all realms. That is not to say that we aren't looking at other possible solutions. When we have more information on those options, we'll make sure to share it.


Im sorry but i think your full of it. Right now all the low pop servers are suffering and having the lame free transfers that you offer do NOT help. Blizz right now cares more about paid transfers cause in brings in revenue and merging realms would make them lose that.

In truth you should just make take 3 lowest pop servers and put them into one till each side has close to an even number per faction. Its time consuming but will be rewarding not only to your player base but as well for your company.

It'll never happen but would be real nice.

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Crygil
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  • 10. Re: Question to gms or admins   09/15/2009 10:59:00 PM PDT
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U need some free character xfers to Muradin IMO.


Muradin is currently being attended to. Muradin broke an important barrier with the number of players on the realm yesterday and again today. However, It may take a little while for that to show up in the upper-end content.
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  • Smolderthorn
  • 11. Re: Question to gms or admins   09/15/2009 11:23:08 PM PDT
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Muradin is currently being attended to. Muradin broke an important barrier with the number of players on the realm yesterday and again today. However, It may take a little while for that to show up in the upper-end content.


Well I mean all the low populated realms why do they just merge them
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  • Gurubashi
  • 12. Re: Question to gms or admins   09/15/2009 11:24:25 PM PDT
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Well I mean all the low populated realms why do they just merge them


I believe Crygil answered that in his first post, referring to how there are alternate ways to deal with low realm population, and that those are their first steps to dealing with the issue.

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  • 13. Re: Question to gms or admins   09/16/2009 01:15:24 AM PDT
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we can flag those realms to make them appealing to new and returning players.


Flag how?
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  • Stormscale
  • 14. Re: Question to gms or admins   09/16/2009 05:11:23 AM PDT
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Muradin is currently being attended to. Muradin broke an important barrier with the number of players on the realm yesterday and again today. However, It may take a little while for that to show up in the upper-end content.


And what of Warsong? Tiny alliance population, no real raiding guilds, no gladiators at all last season and a language barrier to contest with. Yet the horde on the server continue to grow, to the point of having queues at peak time.

All this due to FCM's off warsong and faction transfers. The alliance lost all of it's top PvE guilds recently. What will be done for that realm?
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  • Antonidas
  • 15. Re: Question to gms or admins   09/16/2009 05:15:54 AM PDT
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Flag how?


Beat me to it. I would be interested to know.
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  • 16. Re: Question to gms or admins   09/16/2009 05:25:50 AM PDT
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Beat me to it. I would be interested to know.


I just found out Monday that the realm selection screen shows two servers with populations listed as "new players" rather than low, medium, or high.

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  • Uldum
  • 17. Re: Question to gms or admins   09/16/2009 05:30:21 AM PDT
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I just found out Monday that the realm selection screen shows two servers with populations listed as "new players" rather than low, medium, or high.


Those replaced Recommended Servers, New Players kind of sounds like a lie to me tbh =/
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  • 18. Re: Question to gms or admins   09/16/2009 05:33:28 AM PDT
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What about CHo'gall? They only have like 300 alliance members on at anytime compared to their 1billion horde.
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  • Eldre'Thalas
  • 19. Re: Question to gms or admins   09/16/2009 05:43:02 AM PDT
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Any plans on merging battlegroups?


This I would like to see as a late night and early morning player.

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