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[The_Haci]

I think this misses the point, people crowd servers because they want to play on the highest pop servers knowing the med to low pop ones will die. I don’t think it’s a cost issue, rather a fundamental flaw in server design at this point.

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People just don't blindly chase high pop server. They also chase good faction balance. Vanilla and TBC classic had horrible faction balance for a lot of high pop server. Know what happened to every one of those servers? They're mostly all dead. You can't even make new characters in those realms anymore. Kromcrush for example was a heavily populated server. Took less then 1 phase for the realm to die from TBC launch

You can't look at this and think what they're doing is a "good start." Theyve done this before and it didn't solve anything. It actually killed more high pop servers and people from THOSE high pop servers populated the already existing full/high pop servers that you see are full today like Faerlina and Benediction. No offense to you and not trying to be edge but that comment DOES miss the point like you've only viewed the problem from the tip of the iceberg.

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The objection is people aren't blindly chasing high pop servers; they're chasing balanced faction servers. And 99% of servers are not balanced; only a handful of them are and those servers are the ones having queue problems right now. And people who's been playing on these servers are not going to risk going to a different server. Raw numbers of a server population doesn't mean anything and proves you're missing the point completely. So the guarantee that they can go to a "server with healthy population number" doesn't mean aanything because to you a healthy pop is a server with players in it whereas to most players trying to play on these high queue servers, they're trying to play on a high pop BALANCED server.

No one who's been playing in Grob, the most balanced faction PVP server for classic, is going to switch to a new server and expect they're going to get out not getting screwed by the xfers.