CRZ goodies...

[Sabindeus]

Well, if you don't fish, gather, hunt rare spawns, and are ok with PVP in your PVE, you wouldn't have anything to complain about.

I don't do any of those things and play on a PVP realm! huzzah! \o/

Well I do gather a bit, but that's always in the latest content zones, where CRZ doesn't apply and I pretty much only do that in the first few months of an expansion anyway.

[Newsom]

Playing on a really low population realm I'm actually really annoyed. We don't have things on our Auction House (low level crafting mats especially) so you have to farm it yourself. Which I was totally fine with, except it is now impossible since CRZ.

Ecnomy on my server was horrible to begin with, but now it's just so much worse.

It also seems to be a real pain in the ass trying to level with multiple 85s killing you for fun (getting lots of complaints from guildies about this). I think it's a lot easier to be a shitty ganker when you are ganking randoms on other servers who you might never run in to again.

[Nooska]

Playing on a really low population realm I'm actually really annoyed. We don't have things on our Auction House (low level crafting mats especially) so you have to farm it yourself. Which I was totally fine with, except it is now impossible since CRZ.

Economy on my server was horrible to begin with, but now it's just so much worse.

This is actually a valid point of contention in regards to low pop realms - the CRZ increases participation in the zones to the expected levels, but it doesn't create the expected results on gathering materials (mostly herbs and ore - skinning should be up due to higher pop = faster spawns)

[KysenMurrin]

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/6679517893

With more populated areas, we’re aware of concerns over increased competition for resource nodes as well as quest and rare mob spawns. This is something that we’re in the process of evaluating. We’ve already taken some steps to address it by increasing the spawn rates of most rare spawns. If a zone becomes too populated, we’re capable of adjusting how many realms are able to connect to it. Just keep in mind that we do choose spawn times of creatures and profession nodes with a certain zone population in mind -- CRZ affords us the ability to better maintain those populations.

[halabar]

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/6679517893

With more populated areas, we’re aware of concerns over increased competition for resource nodes as well as quest and rare mob spawns. This is something that we’re in the process of evaluating. We’ve already taken some steps to address it by increasing the spawn rates of most rare spawns. If a zone becomes too populated, we’re capable of adjusting how many realms are able to connect to it. Just keep in mind that we do choose spawn times of creatures and profession nodes with a certain zone population in mind -- CRZ affords us the ability to better maintain those populations.

Just lol

So he's carefully saying that it's actually working the way they want, but they are figuring out that no one likes it.

[Flex]

Just lol

So he's carefully saying that it's actually working the way they want, but they are figuring out that no one likes it.

If people are used to farming in empty zones any addition of people would be unwelcomed but it is something they just have to get over.

[halabar]

Just lol

So he's carefully saying that it's actually working the way they want, but they are figuring out that no one likes it.

If people are used to farming in empty zones any addition of people would be unwelcomed but it is something they just have to get over.

And in the process they ruin the social aspect of the game even further.

Was talking this over with a programmer/server admin I know, and our hunch is that this is all being done to allow them to virtualize their server farm, so while there still might be "realms" they are not on individual blade servers anymore. So, the result is they can actually merge servers without ever admitting to doing so, since they can dynamically scale resources between servers as the population changes.

[Teranoid]

Just had a 70 on 70 war in Halaa.

Love this shit.

So sorry to the people who are mad they can't have entire zones to themselves anymore. They complain about how world pvp was dead and how everything felt so empty just like they complained about how LK was too easy and when they change things everyone bawls and complains about how unfair it is and how they're going to quit.

The players have absolutely no clue what they want aside from wanting one more thing to bitch about.

[Newsom]

Try leveling a profession on a super low population server and see how you like CRZ then. Doesn't matter how much gold you have, there are no materials to buy on the auction house and farming is a hot mess. And no, I can't just move, this is where my raiding guild is.

I just hope they don't enable CRZ for Pandaria zones any time soon or we might just be forced to move just to get consumables.

[Worldie]

They would easily fix the problem by making CR-AH. No idea why they don't want to. The social aspect of a realm community is long dead anyway.

[Skye1013]

CR-AH doesn't quite work the same though, unless they're going to be combining the AH for all servers that are capable of going CR with one another (which, if I'm not mistaken, is all realms.)

[Worldie]

CR-AH would solve the issue of not having stuff in AH with CRZ, that was what I thought

[halabar]

So I was bored while waiting for AV, and flew around Storm Peaks. At 2 am zone time, I saw 5 hunters from 4 different servers camping a rare in one spot. As I hovered over, counting them, the rare spawns, and one tries to tame, and another kills it. Guess that's working as intended. Glad I'm done with any old world rares myself, because it would suck now.

[halabar]

CR-AH would solve the issue of not having stuff in AH with CRZ, that was what I thought

CRZ-AH would be an utter disaster.

If they did that..

1) The AH would be ruled by those that camp the AH 24-7, and there would be little chance for profit ever.
2) Gathering would be worthless, as the botters would always have the price down at the lowest possible.
3) Finding deals on rare items would be very hard, as they would be gone instantly because of scan-bots.

You don't want to go there.

[halabar]

Just had a 70 on 70 war in Halaa.

Love this shit.

So sorry to the people who are mad they can't have entire zones to themselves anymore. They complain about how world pvp was dead and how everything felt so empty just like they complained about how LK was too easy and when they change things everyone bawls and complains about how unfair it is and how they're going to quit.

The players have absolutely no clue what they want aside from wanting one more thing to bitch about.

So because it benefits PVP it's a success? err.. not.