Rp servers serve the needs of RPers
When a new player picks a server, they only see PVE or RP, they don’t see timezones. Most won’t look it up to see either. So they won’t know timezones until they’ve already made their character. It also doesn’t stop cross-server RP events from happening with participation from both realms as many people offer themselves as anchors.
People dealing with harassment should utilize the report and ignore features of the game, and if necessary, post in the CS forums for further help in the matter. This does not change regardless of what server you are on, RP or otherwise. PVPers harass eachother in the same manner, you’re going to find it everywhere. Using it as an excuse to not build a better community is just being complacent and adding to the problem. If someone is targeted and harassed, then the person harassing them has violated Blizz ToS. Simply open the in-game menu, click support, click contact support up top, select in-game issue, report player, and ongoing harassment to file a ticket.
So which is it? Do they want a small community, or they want more activity (aka more players) because you can’t have both.
Not an issue if Alliance is hanging out in Eastern Kingdoms and Horde is in Kalimdor as they typically do on their respective RP servers currently.
But wouldn’t it be more beneficial to balance the factions than to have each server be ALMOST completely one sided, instead of 2 imbalanced servers where players are server hoping over anyway to essentially do the same thing but with more road blocks?
Most people judge MG for Goldshire, but there are a lot of people both horde and alliance that know there is more RP out there than just that, and would LOVE a chance to see what other communities have to offer without having to transfer their mains or make alts everywhere.
With Cross faction guilds now, Having both linked could open up a VERY new and VERY big cross faction community that was non-existent before.