This thread right here… this is why some people are against server mergers and megaservers. Some of y’all may not think that Retail is like this for servers… but it is.
Be glad we have cross server capabilities so that this kind of debacle doesn’t happen to us. 
If they ever did it on retail, it would probably mean the end of Oceanic subscriptions, or at least the severe reduction. In my case, I would probably see that as the trigger to finally end my (currently) 16 years of subscriptions and expansion purchases. Not just out of complaint for a lack of consideration for not being counted as important enough to continue our Oceanic server but on playability issues. We spent the early years living 24/7 with high latency before our server went online, and I wouldn’t see the rolling back of that as a fun choice.
Finally, my poor Alliance character will be leaving Faerlina… Servers dominated 99% by one faction (Horde or Alliance) are stupid!
Be interesting to see how they manage faction balance on one huge server.
Oh… if you read through the blue posts, things changed. Now only certain servers go certain places and Bloodsail gets screwed entirely. The original Classic RP server. 
Remove PVP from the world, problem solve.
On Classic servers? I cant see that happening. Unless they wanted to really prune player numbers.
So they’re just going down to a couple servers? 1 for each “type” PvP, PvE or RP?
Honestly not surprising at all. Tbh I’ve been expecting them to do a server “squish” in retail again for awhile now…
It’s funny because my character was on Pagle and I moved to Ashkandi because Pagle was too full. Now my character will be back on Pagle. 
In both, classic and retail.
Why would you remove it from Retail? Its an entirely optional activity. Why stop someone being able to pvp if they want to? You don’t need to if you dont like it.
because pvp servers are a lie, most of the pvp servers are 1 faction dominated, there’s no balance, players don’t care about balance.
they want to do pvp? go to a BG.
Mate…you said both. I’m talking retail. Whatever they do in Classic, thats up to them and Im not talking about that.
Ah, in Retail? PvP servers aren’t needed anymore — you can just turn your War Mode on.
Oh for gawd sake…do you always diverge at 45 degrees from whatever a comment is?
I’m just opting out of conversation due to confusion, and I have enough of that in my life, dont need it here.
They don’t even exist anymore. Why did this derail into a PvP conversation? 
Not even that. They’re forcing everyone but a few onto Pagle and closing the rest.
Problem is that there are no guild transfers and Pagle is already huge. So everyone’s names are taken, guild names are taken and they’d have to start from scratch with buying bank tabs and the like.
But everyone on Pagle is fine. They get to keep everything.
More than half of my toons are on now locked servers because I didn’t want to deal with queue times at peak classic
So, my current max classic toon from OG classic is on BB with a dying population and I have no interest in switching to another server.
Unless something can revive the 2019 experience again, this second wind has come and gone. The nostalgia boat has sailed to the undying lands
We do not need as many realms as we have now. They make no sense. Merge em
Always the contrarian, eh? No need to in Retail. Guilds and most of the AH are already cross server. They just need to allow for region wide crafting orders. So there’s no reason to mess with anyone’s guilds, names or communities.
There are ways around the name issue. We can merge like half of these realms bruh lmao. I expect them to do it sooner or later anyway.
Idk why they’re taking this approach with classic, however.