In World of Warcraft, poorly populated realms may soon rejoice. They might be connected with other servers.
World of Warcraft: Legion is still very popular among players. If you believe what people say on Reddit and in the official forum, many want to jump back into the game with the launch of Patch 7.3 Shadows of Argus.
However, despite the (presumably) solid player count, there is a recurring phenomenon among the realms of World of Warcraft:
Full realms become even fuller while underpopulated realms continue to lose players.
This is only logical, as many players return during an expansion’s cycle, stay for a few weeks or months, form new friendships, and then stop playing again.
It is likely that more acquaintances are active on the fuller realms – and players will switch to those.
In the official forum, Community Manager Aerythlea once again quoted Ion Hazzikostas, the Game Director of WoW.
According to him, Blizzard plans to connect more realms in the future and is “actively working on it.”
However, there are some obstacles to implementing these plans. The last time realms were connected was around the release of Warlords of Draenor. Since then, however, the infrastructure of the WoW servers has changed so fundamentally that the old method no longer works. Therefore, “some issues need to be resolved” first. However, it is expected that the community will soon be informed about further steps.
Connecting realms would ensure that players from different servers could still find and see each other in the same game world. Blizzard can thus connect poorly populated realms with more lively servers and possibly even balance differences between factions, which would lead to more fairness in PvP.
Additionally, improvements to the guild system of World of Warcraft are planned. What exactly this means has not yet been disclosed.
We speculate and assume that it is about the possibility of cross-realm guilds. This has been discussed for a while in WoW and is desired by many players. The ability to be a member of multiple guilds – as seen in Guild Wars 2 – could also be considered.
Do you wish for more realm connections? Or does that take away more from the sense of belonging to the servers?
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