This is a quote from the Blue Post:
" Long term however, we do want to take much more deliberate steps to reduce the chances of this happening again, and we unfortunately need to be a bit heavy handed going forward to prevent any tailspins that inadvertently create other bigger problems down the road. It’s going to take us some time to realize the full scope of what we need to do to correct this, but for now, our best option is to continue with very tightly monitored and targeted FCMs (including potentially faction-locked FCMs, as Kaivax alluded to in another post here) to alleviate the immediate pressure."
The post that is mentioned with Kaivax, is the same post where Kaivax acknowledges the Faction Specific transfer to Sulfuras to stabilize the Alliance population.
When looking at the body of communications from the developers here, and this post specifically, Blizzard has made the following promises:
- They are taking steps to prevent Mega Servers in the future
- They will be heavy handed in preventing any tail spins that inadvertently create other problems down the road
- Will continue promoting faction balance on destination realms.
They only followed through on their first promise. Not the second or third. They did not promote faction balance (first promise broken), and in failing to do so, caused problems for Sulfuras down the road (second promise broken).
You may say that they never explicitly stated “we will continue to promote faction balance”. Well to that I say this: we saw them lock Mega-Server immediately and issue a statement that Mega-Servers were a mistake and might never unlock in the future. This was one of their promises, and they followed through on this promise. The players would see this and have confidence that Blizzard’s would follow through on their other promises.