There are so many reason this wont work that you have not thought of.
“we will take action and offer free transfers off” -----Only by the time this happens months from now, all of our names on these servers will be taken. Not to mention all the guilds that moved over earlier, got to establish themselves on the realm, and we will be coming in behind.
You mentioned guild stuff on new servers would be temporarily cheaper so guilds can get re established quick. Great idea, but in 6 months when you let Grob finally go, are you going to do that again? Or is all of Grob going to get over there just in time for everything to be full price, and we get screwed there as well?
You are taking ALL the player base of classic BUT GROB, and giving them a choice on how/where they want to play. Nobody is coming to Grob now due to all the other options you gave them. Meanwhile, Grob players stay on a dead server for raiding where the AH market is usually empty, or 100000% overpriced. Why are we paying the same sub fee everyone else is, and getting treated like 2nd class? Why are Grob players not getting what EVERYONE else is?
The best case scenario for Grob players in the future, is they get the free transfer everyone else is getting now, only their names will be gone, and they are behind the curve.
You are giving yourself SO MUCH more work in the future. You are already moving 95% of your players onto these new servers. Please save yourself, and us a ton of future pain. Just let us go, and have the same opportunity everyone else is getting.
Yours truly,
the GM of one of the three 25m H raiding guilds left on this server