Phront:
They’re being especially cautious about opening up new servers for the sake of long-term population stability. There’s really no way of knowing how many people are going to play for a month and then either quit or return to BfA. If they open 5-10 more servers and lock the “cool servers” like Herod, then a lot of people are going to end up on lower-pop servers that might be empty in six months while Herod settles down to a sustainable level over the same time period.
Not only are they being especially cautious as you say, they’re trying way too hard to populate these servers. Here’s my take on it (yeah, I know, same post I linked above, but you should read it)
I realize you want more players on the lowest population servers so that they don’t stagnate and cause a mass exodus of players (and subscription revenue). But you’re really barking up the wrong tree by trying to make this specific recommendation to a target audience of players who by your own admission are choosing to create characters on servers that they already know are full.
Stop to think for a second, isn’t it obvious that these players have absolutely no interest in a low pop server? A…