Hello everyone,
I want to welcome and encourage staff members to express their feelings about this topic especially as it would give us all some answers we need.
People are complaining about the state of MOP realms, bugs, raid or dungeons scripting progress. I could discuss this topic as well, but it's not even half as important as things I want to touch, so please avoid talking about this stuff please.
The real problem right now is Sargeras and it's decreasing population.
There are few thousands players that are stuck on Sargeras and they don't know what to do. Server population is depleting every day. Players quit Sargeras to go to Frostwolf, retail or quit the game. It's nothing special on one hand, but the problem is that Sargeras is not getting any new players, because whoever is about to start playing MOP on Warmane, he is going to Frostwolf for obvious reasons - no ques, 2-3x more people online at any time.
Sargeras is a dying server and something must be done with it asap. My guild was a pretty solid one, established months ago on Hellscream and it lasted all the wipes and ****. Now we are shrinking every day because people just quit this realm and there is not much we can do.
The question is what is the plan to save Sargeras? After long time transfers from Frostwolf to Sargeras were enabled at cost of 25 vp. Tell me honestly now, who is so crazy to move to less populated realm, that is the same rate, same progress, same everything. It just has less than half of people online at any time.
People would hesitate with transfering if you were giving them free coins for that.
In my opinion Sargeras will vanish sooner or later. My entire guild is already planning to move to Frostwolf, when prideful gear will be released so the gap between fresh players and old ones is not that huge. I'm pretty sure that many other players or even entire guilds will do exactly the same thing.
Now. We can either wait a month or two and see all this happening or something can be done to NOT LOSE COMMUNITY anymore.
When Hermes took all our work from us, all our characters, guilds, achievements and everything we valued so much, Kaer said that our most precious thing is our community. I realized then, that he is right. Although right now we lose Sargeras people extremely fast and next month it will barely go up to 1k online at peak hours.
One of the ideas was here on forums several times already. Merge Sargeras and Frostwolf by giving Sargeras players possibility to move to Frostwolf for free. Frostwolf people should be happy with it by having even larger population. Sargeras players will be delighted to have some challenge there again. With such low population Sargeras has become boring and will not be playable soon.
I know you guys have been working on cross realms pvp (arenas and possibly battlegrounds), but it has been going for 2 years now? Do you have any idea when we can expect that idea to be implemented here? Server merge can be done tomorrow and will be fully successful idea, cross realm pvp might take you few more years and not work as intended. People will definitely quit by then.
If any tyrant moderator want to shut my mouth and delete this thread, give me some good reason, why we should not discuss the future of our realm. Or just give me an answer what's going to happen with Sargeras.
Looking forward to your replies guys,
Regards