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Post by
lankybrit
Where can I view which realms support cross-realm zones? Or are they implemented on all realms already?
All realms that are not part of Pandaria have Cross-Realm capability.
All Realms? He's talking about Realms as in 'which server you play on', not Zones.
Cheers.
Post by
Adamsm
And Lanky? It's still all realms that have CRZ activated.
Post by
ElhonnaDS
It's quite possible for a server's population to change, even without CRZ. If you start on a low pop server, and then Blizzard flags it for new players, or offers free transfers to it, or if there were an influx of new players for another reason to all servers, you'd suddenly not be on a low pop server anymore. I agree that there have been a lot of bugs with the implementation, and that they should have thought about things like timed events, rare spawns, etc. ahead of time, but overall I don't think that it's realistic to expect your server population or demographic to never change.
I think it makes sense logistically to conserve server space this way- server space that will then most likely be used to host new instances. As someone who went from a PvP realm where PvP was nearly nonexistent, to one where I am now running into it, the total amount of play time I spend engaged in it is still fairly small. I spent some time leveling alts in the CRZ, before Panda, and I can't say that there were ever so many people doing my particular quest that I couldn't get the mobs for it. I didn't have them all to myself, but I surely didn't have so much competition that the quests were not able to be completed in a timely manner.
I do understand the appeal of questing and farming alone- it's the most efficient way to do it. But having a preference to having a zone to yourself =/= having the right to expect to have that zone to yourself, and be angry that you don't. I definitely expressed reservations about overcrowding when I first heard people talking about how cramped conditions were. But having spent some time out in the zones myself, I don't see enough crowding (in my group, anyway) that gameplay is seriously stunted.
Post by
Lenzikus
Where can I view which realms support cross-realm zones? Or are they implemented on all realms already?
All realms that are not part of Pandaria have Cross-Realm capability.
Where can I view which realms support cross-realm zones? Or are they implemented on all realms already?
All realms that are not part of Pandaria have Cross-Realm capability.
All Realms? He's talking about Realms as in 'which server you play on', not Zones.
Cheers.
So, all realms have Cross-Realm zones enabled on every zone, except Pandaria, is that right?
Post by
Adamsm
So, all realms have Cross-Realm zones enabled on every zone, except Pandaria, is that right?
Yes; eventually they'll probably add in the Pandaria zones as well.
Post by
Lenzikus
Okay thanks.
Post by
Tonyk
I was at Crossroads in N. Barrens. Each quest giver was killed when I went to them for turn in. I noticed an asterisk after the name of the killer.
Does this denote a char from a different server?
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584547
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Post by
mmorpgaddict
Love CRZ. World PvP <3
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292411
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Post by
Adamsm
The main issue with CRZ is that they should have made it server mergers instead.
I think it's cool to run into more people, even if it makes things slightly more busy when competing for mobs and nodes. I've found myself invited to groups quite frequently even when questing and it's good fun. BUT I find it ridiculous that I can't add people from other realms to my friends list so I can enjoy their company again another day.
Yes it's "pro-social" that there are more people around, but it's "counter-social" that you can't really bond with them.
CRZ is a flawed concept compared to just merging servers, it should never have gone live. Just drop CRZ and merge the servers like it should have been done already.
Why does everyone think that a server merger would solve anything? It would still leave low level zones depopulated, and would still have the cities filled to the brim with people. And if you meet anyone you like in CRZ, that's what your realID is for, so you can group up with them whenever you want and do things.
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292411
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Post by
Adamsm
Why does everyone think that a server merger would solve anything?
It would solve the stuff that's currently wrong with CRZ.
No, it really wouldn't; it would just make the problems that CRZ was implemented to solve more obvious.
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584547
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Post by
Interest
If they merge realms, eventually there will be certain areas that are too full. Stormwind, Orgrimmar, for instance, could be incredibly laggy for many players. And most zones would be empty eventually.
They could merge more of the lower populace realms.
Incidentally, the way I use CRZ as it is now sort of reminds me of Runescape servers for some strange reason.
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Post by
lonewarrior
For the umpteen time..they won't server merger.
It makes all the sense in the gaming world...to us the players...but it would make a negative statement in the financial world.
WoW is a major component of the Actiblizz stable and as such is a weather vain for the companies financial stability.
Considering stocks are a major source of revenues to tap into and with a market cap of 12,344,168,649 dollars and 1,111,086,287 shares...you can see how much even a dollar drop in stock value would mean in lost revenues.
Especially now when Vivendi is reported to wanting to sell off their majority holding of ActiBlizz.
side note...for interested readers on possible rumored purchasers of Blizz sell off.
http://games.on.net/2012/07/microsoft-among-interested-buyers-of-vivendis-share-of-acti-blizzard/
Post by
Adamsm
No, it really wouldn't; it would just make the problems that CRZ was implemented to solve more obvious.
I get that you're not in favor of crz or merging servers, but currently it seems that Blizzard think it's a good idea. Now whether crz fixes anything in the long run remains to be seen, just like you I kinda doubt it.
However, no matter what you and I think about it, Blizzard has decided that more crowded servers are a good idea. Doing so with crz brings a lot of downsides. You can't trade with people you meet, you can't guild with them. You can't add them to your friends list unless you use real-id. You get more people competing for nodes without it reflecting the supply on AH, so a semi-dead AH on a low population server will become even more depleted. Had Blizz used server mergers instead all those issues would have been non-issues.
So I'm not saying that server mergers is the solution to everything, just that compared to crz it's the superior choice by far.
Wait what? I don't doubt CRZ, I like the thing. And no, the issues would all still be there even if they did the server mergers.
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