I don’t support this at all the reason we currently have a significantly lower population is because of the intentional damage done to the oceanic community from these very actions.
Brief history lessons for people who never learn
Season of Mastery - Swamp of Sorrows AU - Blizzard decided to open server transfers despite a thread i made saying we didn’t want/need them what followed was a complete decimation of the AU server followed by most of the oceanic community quitting the game and a handful who went on NA and quit within a few weeks.
This caused issue because people then felt why bother playing on OCE if blizzard are going to kill the servers what followed was the reprecussions of said decision.
Season of Discovery - Shadowstrike AU / Penance AU - Despite another post asking blizzard to not open transfers again right before BWL they briefly postponed the transfers then opened them killing both AU servers despite shadowstrike having a health population.
The outcome the oce region werent even going to get a OCE server the 3rd time around until we pushed to get one and with the damage done the previous 2 times some players felt its pointless to play on OCE due to how blizzard kills our servers and went to NA.
Despite this and a 1 or 2 day notice that we were getting a oceanic server after pushing on forums and twitter we still managed to have a populater server where we’ve been able to do everything we want.
Blizzard never listened in the past they never tried to do anything to promote encourage a healthier region even small things like opening transfers ONTO the oceanic server or allowing penance au to move to shadowstrike au.
If you’ve chosen to play on Maladath AU after blizzard have said there will be no transfers then you don’t get to dictate killing an entire server because its not up to the standard you want.
If you role on the oce server then you stay here if you don’t like the lower pop then don’t play here at all.
The only thing that blizzard should do for our server are changes that will impact it in a positive way and make the game more enjoyable for all of us without killing the region and our server.
Quick few examples of little things they could do to help our server.
Open transfers ONTO maladath from the other servers to allow players to come here.
Have set rend/zg times per week or make the quest repeatable.
Introduce might of stormwind for alliance.
The other solutions we proposed in sod which were cross realm groups for dungeons or an oceanic layer or something along those lines as well as oceanic seeded servers on NA all of which blizzard refused to invest into so we are now for the 3rd time in a similar situation of low pop no actual solution other than go play on 200ms+ which a large amount of people will not do.
Want to encourage players to return ? bring back gdkp’s as well another failure on blizzards part.
Want to show people that you care about the oceanic region then don’t open transfers don’t kill our server a third time and provide solutions to help the region grow not destabilize it.