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EU Server Flamelash was destroyed overnight
kitarad
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I suppose Blizzard didn't want the Alliance quitting the game entirely since it would mean the loss of subs and they opened transfer for this server and it was open for sometime. They announced 2 days ago that all the transfers were going to shut down tonight. A huge exodus happened and I created a level 1 Alliance on the server and there was no one but me in Stormwind. In Ironforge there were Horde killing the guards and simply having free rein as there were 4 level one's and three 50+ and one level 60 druid.
In one stroke the server was killed. Whatever world PvP is completely dead, well there was none to speak of before either because of the population imbalance but this action decimated the server. How could they do this without any thought to the hours people invested in their characters to find that since they did not log on the last 3 days, they were left out of the transfer and are now stuck on a side that is completely dead, that even your major cities will have Horde in them.
PvP people say is suppose to be great but when you overwhelm one side it kills it completely in the end.
In one stroke the server was killed. Whatever world PvP is completely dead, well there was none to speak of before either because of the population imbalance but this action decimated the server. How could they do this without any thought to the hours people invested in their characters to find that since they did not log on the last 3 days, they were left out of the transfer and are now stuck on a side that is completely dead, that even your major cities will have Horde in them.
PvP people say is suppose to be great but when you overwhelm one side it kills it completely in the end.
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For a company that has been running this game for 15 years they sure do make some rookie decisions.
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Certainly not me..
No seriously, this scenario could never happen to me....
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Perhaps a few Euros would be fair, but 20 or 25 Euro for a transfer from a dead serer is pure greed.
One of the reasons it was a mass exodus was because it was free.
Here's some of the threads for your perusal
https://eu.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/please-allow-those-stuck-on-flamelash-alliance-a-transfer/111075
https://eu.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/horde-flamelash-followed-alliance-flamelash-on-earthshaker/110884
https://eu.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/flamelash-the-first-server-to-die/110833
https://eu.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/petition-to-hear-a-blue-post-for-updates-and-a-solution-to-the-flamelash-overall-horde-alliance-issues/110978
https://eu.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/rip-flamelash/110501
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This have been a good conversation
And people can give feedback when they leave - Blizzard introducing transfers could very well be because of such feedback. Q: We are losing subs how do we stop it? A: Transfers!
Push a system at one point and you often get a reaction elsewhere however. This is a small tweak and its ripples haven't settled.
And at the end of the day is this a reaction to a bigger tweak: the launch of vanilla?
PVP isn't fair. Never has been. You're not dueling folks. The opposition will use every means necessary to decimate you. If that means 100v1, so be it.
If your server just got decimated... it didn't happen overnight, no sir, it was already happening. Your "team" left for a server they believed would have more of their faction than the opposing faction. They are the very reason why imbalance happens. Human nature.
NO ONE EVER TRANSFERS TO A SERVER IN WHICH THE OPPOSING FACTION DOMINATES IT. That would require overcoming insurmountable odds... winning the big one... having a real set.
Get real. PVP is as much a locust fest as everything else.
Please understand the meaning of a PvE and PvP server. Lots of cry babies rolled on a PvP server, expecting a PvE experience. That is your mistake. I'll really never understand people rolling on a PvP server and then coming to the forums, and cry about being ganged, over-numbered , etc.
PvE server is what you guys are looking for! Re-roll there and you will lvl up in peace.
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But in the end I find it funny that anyone would play WOW for its open world PvP. The only consistently fun and somewhat even PvP it ever had was in the BGs that were balanced (in numbers any way) by design. Fun OWPvP times in WoW have always been exceptional flukes that happened once in a blue moon. 99% of the time it has always been gankers camping quest hubs 30 levels below them or a gang of 20 stomping on 2 questers... fun!
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