How slowed is your server, and do you believe it's permanent?

[fateswarm]

I noticed my server is slowed by I believe it's not permanent. Some people will come back. I see some people leaving but they might be mistaken. I believe across the game there is a slow down.

Sure, if you go to a huge server with pugs at 4 o'clock in the morning - yes, those realms exist - it might not be seen, but even those would go from like 180% capacity to 120%; it doesn't mean they weren't slowed down. Well, one could claim they'd better be in a filled server than a regular one but not sure if it's always optimal. It probably needs a sweet spot.

[Sevyvia]

I think you're looking for another word than "slowed" for that post to make sense.

[Thelxi]

My realm is pretty weird, for the last 2 years it has been constantly growing. Many old raiding guilds died during cata but new ones keep popping up. It went from a dead "low" to a decent "medium".

[Scorth]

My server's died down a little bit, I noticed we do less RBGs nowadays and it's usually lower MMR than before. xD

I'm sure it's just because the season has been going on long enough that everybody is getting tired of it and are doing other things. Maybe switching to Arenas, who knows. I only really use RBGs for gearing too, so..

[Sweetz]

The content has been cleared and farmed to oblivion. From a PVE perspective most people must have come to the conclussion by now that they are simply not going to get that trinket/ring or whatever they are missing from Dragon Soul.
From a PVP perspective the season has been running for 3x as long as it should have. Sup?

From a ActiVision Blizzard point of view with a hint of tinfoil; it's better for business to release content when Diablo 3 gets truely boring. Force people to play Diablo 3. When that wave has passed, motivate them back into World of Warcraft. Of course it would be obvious that 5.0 will hit atleast 2 months before MOP so they can get people to pay for 2 months without giving them anything real.
I better take my tinfoil off before I go nuts.

Arg it came back on by itself! Obviously the first tier of MOP is going to last over a year, judging by their ever-slowing pace of content.

[Sinndra]

yeah, live servers are much more deserted now, then they were 6 months ago. but they went thru this same exact period between wrath and cata. i spend the time i woulda spent on the live servers, having fun in the beta. with raid bosses and faction vendors popping up with super sexy mounts available ive noticed tons of people there recently. not quite as much as when annual pass beta keys went out. but there is definitely an up swing in population there.

anyways.. as soon as 5.0 gets closer to going live, and some sort of release date is announced.. realms will begin to grow back to normal populations again.

[Shullski]

Just the end of an expansion... Happens with each new xpac.

[Snowraven]

I see some people leaving but they might be mistaken.

Why? Because you don't agree with them? Maybe they feel they're right and everyone staying is mistaken. It's subjective. They leave for different reasons, but they're all good reasons for them. If they're not for you, your problem.

[Koen991]

Why? Because you don't agree with them? Maybe they feel they're right and everyone staying is mistaken. It's subjective. They leave for different reasons, but they're all good reasons for them. If they're not for you, your problem.

Really, read again. He says "I see some people leaving, but they MIGHT be mistaken."