[WoW] PvE to PvP transfers are long overdue. - Page 14

Cad · 10-21-2007, 12:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Antoine

I think that people would notice a whole influx of people on the same tier of content as them.

Watching each group accuse the other of being transfers and the associated forum posts/confusion would be worth it.

Twobit Whore · 10-21-2007, 12:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Makata

It's easy to merge servers without anyone knowing. Just merge them but list them separately in the server window. You'd have to combine within the same battlegroup, or reset them between seasons, but it's very easy. Savvy people might notice the sudden increase in lvl 70s in shattrath but those people probably aren't the ones who are going to care if servers merge anyway.

Yeah, *maybe*.. for about 10 minutes until one of those saavy people said something and then everyone in the world knows.

spronk · 10-21-2007, 01:24 PM

It wouldn't suprise me if Blizzard is planning on merging entire battlegroups into 1-3 namespaces, the CPU capacity has certainly grown enough to do this. Given that no new servers have been released now for 10 months I would guess Blizzard does have something up its sleeves to solve most of the dead-servers-problem, but in typical fashion it is taking retardedly long. Just opening up the LFG tool and instances to x-server would solve 90% of the problems.

There are hints they do plan on supporting many more players per server in the expansion, like having 2 starting zones (instead of 1 like TBC), and even in the starting zones having more than 1 possible start point.

Makata · 10-21-2007, 02:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Twobit Whore

Yeah, *maybe*.. for about 10 minutes until one of those saavy people said something and then everyone in the world knows.

And who's going to care? If you're 70, you're not going to quit because of a merge.

Twobit Whore · 10-21-2007, 03:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Makata

And who's going to care? If you're 70, you're not going to quit because of a merge.

If it was just those people that Blizzard was interested in saving face to then they would have done it already.

Makata · 10-21-2007, 03:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Twobit Whore

If it was just those people that Blizzard was interested in saving face to then they would have done it already.

Public announcement is a bit different than unannounced change. I bet you a very sizable portion of the wow community doesn't even read forums or other source of online info. I'd bet you the kind of people who'd actually leave or care over merges would largely fall into this category.

Twobit Whore · 10-21-2007, 03:29 PM

Let me put it in plain English for you: They don't care as much about their image to people who are already playing... it's their image to everyone else that just happens to find out that 'WoW ninja-merged some servers' and if you don't think EVERYONE would find out then you are being naive.

mek · 10-22-2007, 06:28 AM

Watching Makata struggle to maintain a coherent train of thought is pretty exhausting.

Vanguard should have gone with the ninja-merge, it would have worked great there, since all the "savvy" players didn't last a month.

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10-21-2007, 01:24 PM	#198 (permalink)
spronk nerd Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 1,012	It wouldn't suprise me if Blizzard is planning on merging entire battlegroups into 1-3 namespaces, the CPU capacity has certainly grown enough to do this. Given that no new servers have been released now for 10 months I would guess Blizzard does have something up its sleeves to solve most of the dead-servers-problem, but in typical fashion it is taking retardedly long. Just opening up the LFG tool and instances to x-server would solve 90% of the problems. There are hints they do plan on supporting many more players per server in the expansion, like having 2 starting zones (instead of 1 like TBC), and even in the starting zones having more than 1 possible start point.

10-22-2007, 06:28 AM	#203 (permalink)
mek homosexual Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada Posts: 1,191 -8 Internets	Watching Makata struggle to maintain a coherent train of thought is pretty exhausting. Vanguard should have gone with the ninja-merge, it would have worked great there, since all the "savvy" players didn't last a month.