Originally Posted by
Raugnaut
I dont think CRZs was added with anything BUT the realm merging in mind- They had to shut down the fishing contest, re-do spawn rates for mobs/ores, "normalize" time zones, and they STILL haven't fixed numerous bugs with CRZ. (For instance, in a 2 person mount, the second gets dismounted EVERY time you cross a zone.) Meanwhile, UNUSED server zones are out with only hackers in them, farming essentially an entire zone to themselves. (Duping Riens of Posiedus? No need, just hack into your own Vash server, and you can farm the 6 hour spawntime horse whenever you please, no competition.) Forget getting a realm together to down a city boss- 3 40 man raid groups, go into TB CRZ A, B, and C, and get torn apart by the hundred of hordes sitting in the zone.
Yea.. Sure, CRZ gave small realms a "larger" feel to them, but with NONE of the benefits of being a larger realm. Actually MERGING small realms together would have accomplished the larger feel, boost up the dead economies, and provided a much larger player pool to actually raid (Can't raid with CRZ ppl, no sir), or PvP (Can't arena with CRZ ppl, although i guess you CAN RBG). Instead, dead economies become worse at the non-pandaria levels, rares are constantly contested/griefed (Hello MR. Warrior who kills Loque whenever its up for lulz, or waits for a hunter to start taming and boom, one shot), and, pvp realms, lowbies from MANY servers are ganked by a SINGLE douche, who runs away into another zone, and proceeds to gank lowbies there, runs, ganks, runs.
Sooo, yea, imo, CRZ was NOT well thought out by blizzard at all. The same amount of thought went into CRZs as did Real ID on the forums, except there wasn't danger to blizzard employees this time around.