WoW community says you need realm mergers!

#0 - Aug. 30, 2007, 9:51 p.m.

From talking with the community they are under the impression that you have alot of low population realms and dying ones. I argued that you do NOT have a realm population problem from my research. As Oceanic realms at night have 4 of them LOCKED and the rest say FULL or HIGH population. Also by 4am PST all North American realms are showing at least Medium population or higher. So why do we need merging of realms?

Drysc

#3 - Aug. 30, 2007, 11:18 p.m.

We're certainly looking at additional means to help realms that have lower populations.

There are a couple issues with merging realms though that we would need to take into heavy consideration if one were to be considered. As many of the lower population realms are PvP, faction balance has to be taken into careful consideration. Would a merge worsen, improve, or leave any faction balance unchanged? Would a merge move the population up too high, queuing or leading to queues for the realm after that point? Do we have realms of the same time zone and type that would merge well under these conditions? There also many logistical issues with merges which ultimately effect the end user, such as conflicting character and guild names. So, in the end, a merge would only be considered if all other possible options have been completely exhausted.

We're not just throwing recommended tags up on realms, and calling it a day. The recommended tag has done a lot of good for a lot of realms, but if we're seeing that they're no longer helping reach the type of population numbers we would like to see, then we would investigate alternate means. That's sort of where we're at now.

Drysc

#7 - Aug. 30, 2007, 11:22 p.m.

Q u o t e:
So besides server mergers what is there?

That's the million dollar question, now ain't it?