Its time to open paid transfers to locked servers. With other realms dying and players stuck for a variety of reasons, its time to at least give those players the option of moving their characters, especially if they already have characters on a specific realm. For Grobbulus specifically, its still 5-6k below the population of the top servers, so it could definitely handle an marginal influx of players.
Im sure the trolls will cry how it will change things, but based on transfer history and interest I have seen on these forums, both sides seem to be interested in this, so the nice balance would remain.
You can still create a new characters on transfer locked realms, which is why having a character already on it doesn’t mean much.
Moreover, the top servers are so high pop that being behind 5-6k pop is not really much meaningful when they are 4-5 times the size of a healty medium server.
Its not that we don’t want “YOU” we don’t want the deluge of non RP types again. Last time there were unlimited transfers the character of the realm changed for the worse… much much worse.
Its still 10X better than any other realm on Wrath, but dude, it aint Grob Vanilla or even Grob early TBC. Those were some good times.
Come to Grob, make a new character level up, I assure you that you will have fun here.