I mean, Skyfury still has more than 5000 unique characters logging raids each week. While people may say that’s a small or dead server in contrast to something like Benediction with over 30K unique characters logging raids on a single faction, it’s still quite a large number and would have been considered a large server during original Wrath.
Certainly some people have transferred, some have stopped playing, and many are raid logging. However, thus far Skyfury is far from a dead server. Of course, with people who incessantly complain and make it out as though it were a dead server, everytime someone has any difficulty with anything, they’ll post “Dead server,” until it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Now, don’t get me wrong, I’ve seen how easy it was to fill a second raid group a couple of weeks before the launch of Phase 2, and how difficult it is to keep filling that group since Ulduar launched. I am under no delusion that the booming days of the first couple of months of Fresh are still here, but I never expected that to be a constant.
Even if Skyfury does end up like so many other wasteland realms in the Classic lansdscape, it will always have been worth that fresh experience. And, even now that people are calling the server dead, I see more guilds and players that I do not recognize all over the server than those that I do.
It’s far from dead, but people seemingly like to claim that it is, and who knows how long until their claims start ringing true?