The thing is they will claim its not “forced” but will do things that directly/indirectly kill the server until you don’t have that option anymore and your options become quit or go where we want you to.
Opening free transfers directly lowers the server population further.
Preventing new character creations indirectly lowers the server population.
Not allowing transfers to shadowstrike prevents any chance of growth.
These 3 combined leads to a slow death of almost any server except the largest and this is what they did in season of mastery with shadowstrike AU and its why i quit som during bwl.
They realistically have 2 options here
A) They commit to making a oceanic mega server and taking measures to improve our population which would include not opening xfers off the server but only onto it and tailoring solutions to any potential problems a smaller pop server may encounter.
B) They go ahead with the transfers but provide oceanic seeded instance servers in which case the entire oceanic region/servers will be dead within a week but is at least an acceptable compromise.
Also as a reminder that they did the exact same thing which killed oceanic completely in season of mastery and we didn’t want it back then either please do not make the same mistake again.