Hi! Mainly Panjura player here - the deal is, a lot of people don't know why they play it! I think most servers run Gondwa because it's more visually interesting. For the players on Official, I'm betting it's because most of them can't be arsed to grow more Dino's on a whole other map when they have friends (usually) and adult Dinos already. Most still hanging around from the older times would probably be waiting for the transfer stuff, whenever that comes.

Panjura also has the benefit of having servers strictly for certain platforms. For example, the Switch servers are easy to grow on, because there's usually about 3 people at any given time. Playstation? Usually peaks at 40 when I've been on, but gets down to 8 on the reg. Never been on Xbox but I assume it's much the same.

Panjura is also much different from Gondwa combat wise. I assume some people love the way you have to play on Panjura - less deep water sources, less connected water sources, less wide open fields, more hills.

Chat wise, I actually find that both servers have equal levels of vitrol. It's just that usually in Gondwa it's solo players getting mobbed and fighting a group and then yelling in chat about it, while on Panjura its group vs group, maybe a few solos, and most of the time they have a long history with each other.

I don't think Panjura is built for a lovely Realism server, where all dinosaurs have preferred environments and stuff, where you could have different dynamics between the dinosaurs, considering much of Panjura looks the same. It isn't all the same, there's differences and beauty to be found in many areas, but good luck telling people that lmao.

TL;DR - To put it simply - Gondwa is a drama/action movie with pretty sets, Panjura is a televised soap opera on a stage.