Server Cap or Merge Servers

[dequecojonesvais 2]

5 hours ago, Keala said:

I wouldn't mind merging Darrowshire with the other servers aswell, the problem lies with a portion of the Darrowshire community. Some of them play there for the PvE status, some don't. Because of this, a merge in this case can really only do more harm than good.

Pretty sure you don't have any chars in Darrowshire. Let's decide Darrowshire player's about their future, They must decide if wanna transfer to another realm or another solution.

If you don't care about Darrrowshire now you are thinking as most Elysium staff right now.

[Keala 28]

I literally have no idea how in the world I ended up giving you the impression that I don't care about Darrowshire.

You said this yourself: "As a Darrowshire player i prefer a merge (more players, more fun) than leave my geared lvl 60 unused". To my understanding this means that you'd rather have your character merged instead of leaving it there unsused.

Then I posted something where you only quoted the very first sentence without mentioning anything else written on it.
In that first part I stated my personal idea and explained once again that there's a lot of people playing on Darrowshire because of the ganking issue. In the end I basically just said why, in my honest opinion, merging is a bad idea (but keep in mind, I would be happy to follow whatever options you guys from Darrowshire want, I personally wish this problem to be fixed for both Anathema and Darrowshire).

You then accused me of not caring about Darrowshire without quoting anything else from my other post. There I explained (once again, IN MY HONEST OPINION) what would be the ideal outcome, which would be to just wait for Elysium to catch up to Anathema, merge them and give the players of Darrorshire the option to transfer (which is what you said you preferred: "As a Darrowshire player i prefer a merge (more players, more fun) than leave my geared lvl 60 unused").

We both want to achieve the same thing here, and that is to have a better experience in game by having a healthy server to play on, and I truly hope such a thing happens for both Anathema and Darrowshire, not just Anathema.

Would you be kind enough to explain where and how I only showed interest towards Anathema and gave Darrowshire no thoughts at all? This is not even sarcastic or anything, I genuinely want to know how I managed to receive such a response from you.

[Overtime 6]

Wouldn't bother me if Anathema had 2-3x xp rates. Already lvled 4 60s, but at this point I'm only worried about fresh blood.

[Whiskyjack666 2]

No to this entire post. From Darrowshire

[dequecojonesvais 2]

Elysium staff, do something about populations problems in Anathema and Darrowshire.

No more to say no nobody.

[Ourk 5]

On 10/08/2017 at 8:08 AM, Keala said:

I fully agree on this. Anathema can't wait that much time, it'll just get shutdown due to extremely low population before any kind of merge or transfer is made possible.

However, this is only the case where the staff does not say a single word. Their silence on this stance is what bothers me most.

We can suppose that Elysium first staff knew that Anathema (aka Nost - PvP server) was doomed to die at the time they plan to open a new fresh server (Elysium). (And I'm not talking about ZK which only increased the Anathema population problem.)

At this time (11 months ago), it was a subject that players have talked a lot about on Nostalrius forum. The more optimistic players thought then that, in case of pop difficulties, Nost-Pvp server will merge with the recent one while the most pessimistic players had simply decided to abandon their Nost chars and rolled on the fresh server.

So now, it would be somehow incongruous, unwelcome and hypocritical that the Elysium staff (even if it's not quite the same as the one at the beginning) says anything about the rescue of Anathema since they have decided themselves to kill it by their choices.

And maybe, it is the means of totally freeing themselves from the Nostalrius legacy.

[Keala 28]

If what you say is true (and at this point I can see it being a possibility), and they had planned to kill Anathema from the very start, then they should have been at least fair with everyone and said that directly (and while it makes sense for Anathema, what would the plans be for Darrowshire then, since their issue is the same, if not worse?).

I am not one of those players willing to reroll on Elysium and suck up their hate towards Anathema, I spent way too much time there to give up on everything. I would love to see Anathema survive, gain some more population or get merged. If none of these things happen and Anathema dies completely, I'll just deal with it and move forward. No big deal.

But if there's one thing that I will never do, that is to be their puppet and do what they expect me to do (which is reroll on Elysium and give up on Anathema).

Either way, this is only speculation. I still believe that all we really need is a response on this matter. And if their mind still has not changed and they still believe Anathema is fine and a merge/transfer is not a solution, while also not having any plan to at least trying to fix the issue... then good luck, I'll gladly walk away and be done with the project as soon as Anathema is dead completely.

[Ourk 5]

I did not say that they "they had planned to kill Anathema".

I said that in making the decision to open a fresh server, they had to know that this decision was going to kill Nost-PvP server (Anathema).

Indeed, as some players had understood it, it would be astonishing that the staff himself did not understand it. (Especially with the same terrible mistake as previously committed by the Kronos staff: the opening of K2 killed K1.)

[Keala 28]

My choice of words was probably bad, but I'm sure you got the point. In the end, saying "They opened a server knowing that it will kill Anathema" or "They had planned to kill Anathema" is basically the same in my eyes.

[Whiskyjack666 2]

Darrowshire is healthy and populated. Was close to 2k this weekend.. Kindly stfu

ps from darrowshire

[Keala 28]

@Shiamorah, according to this guy you have been wrong all along: Darrowshire is completely fine! Shall we leave it as it is and focus on Anathema then?

On a more serious note... You do not speak for the whole realm. 2k on weekends might be healthy and populated for you, but it's most likely not the case for most people, see @dequecojonesvais, also a Darrowshire player.

[Jubilee 0]

My raiding guild on Anathema that I have been with for 4 months was disbanded last night due to an unsustainable rate of replacement required to fill raids.  Sadly, due to all these threads getting deleted or locked and no updated meaningful response being given, I believe there will be no information regarding a merge for months.  I encourage anyone who is seriously interested in seeing a merge to simply stop logging in to Anathema or Darrowshire.  Our concerns are ignored on the forums so I think our only solution is to act in game. 

[Pindakaas 5]

6 hours ago, Jubilee said:

My raiding guild on Anathema that I have been with for 4 months was disbanded last night due to an unsustainable rate of replacement required to fill raids.  Sadly, due to all these threads getting deleted or locked and no updated meaningful response being given, I believe there will be no information regarding a merge for months.  I encourage anyone who is seriously interested in seeing a merge to simply stop logging in to Anathema or Darrowshire.  Our concerns are ignored on the forums so I think our only solution is to act in game. 

This is indeed the sad reality, people really just gave up on the realm it feels. You could see it coming from miles away that the summer was going to kill the last bit of EU/ NA community that was left. People just dissapeared, they had enough of this crap. There's like what, 5 EU/ NA guilds left on Alliance side who actively raid, if even.

There's nothing going on, channels empty, no world PvP, I literally run around Silithus looking for horde to world PvP but guess what THERE'S NOBODY THERE unless it's China primetime and even then you really have to walk miles to find people, it's sad how the Elysium team is still being too stubborn to admit that Anathema needs help.

Perhaps they feel like having a china-only server is great and that's why they're letting the NA/ EU population die out, that's really the only reasoning I can think of. Anathema is a closed book. It's been quite a few years that I've pumped time into my characters, quite a sad ending. Really don't understand how the team let it come this far, unless of course the previously stated reasoning is a thing.

I'm not going to re-roll to Elysium either, it's pointless if you see how they handled the population problems on Ana. (aka do nothing and watch how the community dies out and just be kinda MEH)

All in all I'm gratefull about the opportunity Elysium gave us, and we got to play our old characters again, it's just very sad that it ends on a sour note, in a way that it really feels like you simply stopped caring about Anathema.

And if any staff reads this at all, Naxx is not going to bring EU/NA population back, it's WAY too late, as mentioned before I still don't understand how you didn't try anything drastic earlier to keep people playing on your servers.

 

Sorry for QQ, thanks for reading.