Honestly, it is better for new players to be together. If they were on a over populated server they would be totally lost and no one there would help them ( this is I found out regardless ) because they are lowbies and in some view not worth it.
Nobody is forcing new players to roll on dead realms.
If the game actually got a decent influx of new players, and they rolled on those realms, it wouldn’t be an issue.
Can confirm. Was in Doom back in the day.
No one should lose names or guilds until they reach the name loss policy time period.
Connected Realms are smart mergers that will help low pop realms if they connect a bunch of them— without people losing anything.
That’s great for new names and I have always advocated for the option of one space, hyphen or apostrophe. But does nothing for those you’d force to name change.
I’m on a low pop RP realm. I’m CRZ’d with only RP realms. So I actually end up seeing a lot of the same people. It’s a great experience, too. Very nice people and always helpful.
People will quit if their characters names are removed from them.
Those people are already off the list.
The idea that most people who play on low pop servers haven’t logged in since legion is fantasy on your part.
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One of the worst complaints ever tbh.
I would think they would give people free Xfers off low pop realms at least once a year or something. Doesn’t cost them anything to do this
I don’t think so. While there are of course people who feel stuck on realms where there aren’t enough participants in the content they want to do to have an active community, it’s also true that most people like the sort of realm they are on, or they would have left or rerolled long ago.
I think trying to force standardization on players is a mistake.
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People like ff14 when every server is at max capacity because it makes the game more lively. I couldn’t understand why someone would want to be stuck on a dead server.
That’s your problem, imagining that all the people who play on those servers are hating their game experience and want to be just like you.
They don’t.
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Resources? Like mining nodes and stuff?
or like other players you can call upon for [insert thing here]
An old server will, I suppose, also have an old economy, so yeah that LVL 32 leather tunic for your alt? it sells for 20,000G cause everyones got hundreds of thousands of gold by now.
I’m noob and I like my noob server. Me not that kind of Orc, leave me alone.
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Yeah my server has been a “new player” server for years. And it’s still feels pretty dead. Not as dead as some, my old server (black water raiders) is an absolute ghost town.
I grouped with some people from frostmourne the other day and their server was SO ALIVE! Like I couldn’t believe a server could actually be that populated. I was genuinely stunned.
It made me seriously consider a realm transfer
Nah these are full for a reason and should remain so. New players need to be funneled either into high realms or medium (at the very least). It just sucks being in a server with low economic activity, no guilds, etc.
They don’t know that, though. They don’t understand what that means or what that will entail. Nor do they get a warning they’ll have to pay to move or they’ll have to start over once they realize they don’t want to be there. This comes up from time to time in newcomer chat and it’s a bummer to tell them each time.
Plus, new player is just proxy for low server. I think i recall readings years ago it’s a designation below low but can’t remember now, but low at least for sure. Anywho, they all come with few guilds, low economic activity, and no experienced players to help them. It’s just a miserable time and sucks the fun out of you when you realize.
All this talk of the new player problems, lately. I don’t think there are any new players. Everyone who is ever going to have played WoW has done so.
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I agree with Blizzard’s strategy of trying to get new players to go to low pop realms to increase the population of them.
I also agree with you, new players should be in a “bustling” environment where they can be taken under the wing of a hopefully good guild and have the opportunity to utilize professions to make gold on the Auction House.
I would say having new players on medium+ realms is the best thing for them long term 
Also, I feel like Blizzard’s tooltip for what the populations mean is either out of date or intentionally misleading
When do Full realms have queues? The answer is on xpac launches and sometimes on patch launches it most certainly isn’t “often”. I don’t know anyone with a definition of “often” that is 1 week every 2 years or 1 day every ~6-9 months 
This might be a case of “well intended wording”.
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I’m from black water raiders and still have toons trapped there
Probably more misleading. New player doesn’t mean new player, just means very low pop. At some point it had a purpose to populate realms (still misleading), but now there’s no chance of that happening.
To be clear, I said funneling, not forcing. They can change realms ofc, but how many new players are even aware that it’s an option when the first thing the game presents theme with when they load up the game is the character creation screen.
They need to do something about how limiting it is to be on a dead server. I’ve played alliance on a dead server since legion since I got baited there as a returning player, leveled every class to cap and eventually started playing with guilds doing early mythic raids only to find out the server population can’t sustain it and watch guild after guild collapse, leave server, and/or go horde because the server population can’t sustain 20 semi serious players reliably.
The real problem here is that realms as they are right now are not suited toward trying high end content and if you are stuck in one such realm your best bet is find a group via the group finder for m+ and pvp and give up on doing mythic raiding. It seems like this is an issue that isn’t easily solved as well since blizzard has been messing with server stuff for the past few expansions and avoided making promises here. For that reason I think they should just enable content cross realm, which is already basically in place except for that horrid wait for alliance hall of fame.
Beyond that they should consider buffing up their community tools, I haven’t ever seen one that seemed active but it should be something that can enable more people to try more group content by finding people to work with.
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