First they talked about creating a megaserver, now they’re going to make several small servers connected to a single megaserver. Wouldn’t it be easier to connect the PVP servers? And the same with the PVE servers. Benediction is a 98% Alliance server and Faerlina is 99% Horde. Why not connect both servers along with the other PVP servers that are dying? And do the same with all the low-population PVE servers with the high ones? If they’re already connecting servers to an existing one, I don’t know why they make things so complicated that could be solved easily. Just connect all the PVP servers and the same with the PVE servers.
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I agree. Blizzard is over complicating things as usual.
But if they did that then Blizzard would be part of the solution and not part of the problem. I am fairly certain that goes against their corporate motto. 
Thanks.
players choose 98$ servers because they want to be dominant faction. Blizzard nullifying the player-created dynamic is not a solution.
Ok so a server is basically a giant database; it’s a huge collection of data.
Connecting that database to the database of another active server is a big project. It takes a lot of time and effort and apparently Blizzard (based on their posts) does not have an easy tool to do this with.
But if they connect an empty database (a fresh server), that’s much easier.
Then people can transfer into the fresh server once it’s already connected, because they do have an easy and automated tool for that.
Their explanation actually does make sense and using the fresh servers is a viable tech hack to get around the fact that they apparently don’t have a tool that can efficiently connect active servers.
Now, if they just wanted to get the servers together, then yeah, they could do the same trick but with PVP-PVP and PVE-PVE, instead of converting the PVP servers into PVE. That’s a separate thing that they have chosen to do.
They are just preparing for the player base to drop when WoD comes and wipes it out.
Like others said, the fresh server thing makes sense for what tools they have available.
But Pagle is a horrible choice and making PvP realms move to Pagle rather than making a PvE server and a PvP server.
Alot of people are going to be upset if the guild situation isn’t mended, as well as the name situation. Locking new characters on the fresh servers will fix that issue.