I agree totally. The “threshold” or algorithm they use to determine which servers migrate, merge or have free transfers to help balance is a TRASH system that needs to be fixed and improved on… This bad planning literally KILLS the community, servers and stops people playing altogether… Including myself. You guys (blizzard) act too slowly, this should be a full time job for someone to manage, constantly - not waiting for some algorithm to determine “how dead the server is” before making decisions… You should be focused on the Majority of players that need a economy, need a player base, need people to play with… dont make excuses about “some” people that like to play and low populated servers… maybe you should make specific servers with MAX # of players for them specifically… the rest of the human race wants to have thriving active and popular servers to play on, with well balanced PVP horde vs alliance player base for world pvp and a booming economy… This is not that hard… literally a 5th grader could do this job. why is it so hard to balance these servers?
I read a LONG winded explanation of “how challenging” it is… here Thoughts on Realm Consolidation - #3 by Aggrend-1483
sure there are “things to consider” but at the end of the day… when server pops drop down to literally ZERO PLAYERS or less than 500-1000 on each side (imo should be merged even before that) you guys should be acting right away… not making announcements MONTHS later or after they are DEAD!!! then saying “in AUGUST” - more MONTHS later taking action… it’s ridiculous… and you wonder why active subscriptions drop off and population starts to die??
Do your job @blizzard