Dead realm? Nah. Not here! NEVER!

[Peter T.]

I just checked my guild's ranking on guildox.com and decided to explore
the site a bit more and found a very empty realm. Hakkar/EU. I rolled
a human mage and visited Stormwind.

/who stormwind - 1 player... wow...
/who - 11 active players on the realm. 11!?!

AH - 54 items for sale at all! A single blue weapon, no armor at all, a
few glyphs and some herbs and a few ore. That was it.

So when those peeps who starts bitching about a dead realm I will advice
them to roll a char on Hakkar. That realm will _never_ see a haunting
spirit! :)

--
Peter T.

[Catriona R]

On Mon, 20 May 2013 20:33:12 +0200, "Peter T." <pin...@hotmail.cum>
wrote:

Lol that's pretty dead indeed - I've occasionally dropped into
Crushridge EU which is about as bad; 12 people online last time I was
on in late afternoon. Crushridge used to be an unofficial Russian
realm, and pretty much everyone migrated off when the proper Russian
realms started - I think Hakkar has had the same deal with Italians,
high Italian pop and then official Italian realms happened; bam,
everyone migrates off. I think Blizz should maybe consider mergers for
the extreme cases like this; yeah it sucks for people who lose names
that were duplicated but really, online people only just in double
figures is beyond bad, there's not much way to save those realms.

[Cryptoengineer]

On May 20, 3:21 pm, Catriona R <catrionarNOS...@totalise.co.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, 20 May 2013 20:33:12 +0200, "Peter T." <pino...@hotmail.cum>

Since we've seen a 30%+ drop in memberships, consolidation seems
inevitable; next time they replace the blade servers, there will be
fewer of them.

pt

[Peter T.]

Den 20-05-2013 23:01, Cryptoengineer skrev:

> Since we've seen a 30%+ drop in memberships, consolidation seems
> inevitable; next time they replace the blade servers, there will be
> fewer of them.

I agree. But I cant figure out how they will do it. Blizz introduced
xrealm zones while I was AFK for 2 years. Maybe they will implement it
further as I guess a realm merge will inflict way too much (economical
and sociological).
I seriously miss the days where SW was crowded like fishes in a barrel
on my realm. Now its tipping between low and medium with the arrow
pointing to the low pop end. According to guildox.com the realm has
8300 L90 and 2700 active players which is very low compared to other
realms. :/

<http://www.guildox.com/go/g.aspx?a=11>

--
Peter T.

[Catriona R]

On Tue, 21 May 2013 00:10:05 +0200, "Peter T." <pin...@hotmail.cum>
wrote:

Heh, that's pretty interesting stats - I'm on Draenor EU with 39010
lvl 90 and 15742 active, according to those stats, ever so slightly
higher (and that is why it's been queued nearly every evening since
5.2 hit, it's only been about the last 2-3 weeks I've occasionally got
away without having to wait to log in!).

The balance has shifted here as well though; when I was on Alliance in
vanilla/early TBC days, all the pop was there, and Horde was very
quiet indeed; my lowbie Horde alts made a small fortune selling items
that simply weren't being sold by anyone else - I had a thriving
Runecloth Bag business at one point for goodness sake, with no
competition (yes, 14-slot bags! And this was in TBC by then, as my
tailor is a blood elf). Nowadays, Horde is frankly overpopulated,
while Alliance is much quieter; it comes as quite a surprise if
Alliance actually tag one of the worldbosses; 99% of spawns will be a
Horde tag. Stormwind isn't dead by any means but I'd say it's on a par
with its population in vanilla (when the only AH was in Ironforge, for
reference... ie, most the population was not in SW!). Meanwhile
Orgrimmar is horrendously crowded; I think I use the quietest AH area
but it's still far busier than I like (I prefer to go to Thunder Bluff
tbh, however JC daily grind isn't yet over for completing my recipe
collection). It's been a massive change over the years, that's for
sure.