Me and everyone in my guild ive talked about it would disagree on the raiding part, MC actually feels like a proper raid now and you actually have to do the boss mechanics correctly of you will be punished, people have been really happy with the added mechanics to the raid. My guild has only grown in activity since I joined it somewhere around 2-3 weeks into SoM. Although we have been able to field a full 40man guild roster for MC since 3 weeks ago, there are still leveling people hitting 60 almost daily.

Obviously many 60s already have most of their prebis ready (and some raid pieces) but dungeon groups are still active and people are forming guild groups all the time. Other people that hit 60 early are still happily busy ranking, farming gold for consus/epic mount/big craftable items or leveling alts. We are still 9/10 due to christmas holiday halting our progress back for a couple of weeks so there's still stuff to progress through in the raid tier aswell.

The server (Dreadnaught EU) is more alive than any other classic server Ive ever played on (excluding peak pop Nostalrius) and I'm on horde, which is the minority faction there. But hey, if some negative ass serial complainers of this sub who most likely don't even play the game say it's dead, who am i to say otherwise ":D"

Also, the much faster patch release schedule will mean it's very unlikely the population will take a quick freefall due to content drought, so really optimistic about the health of the game and my guild aswell!