WoW still has a lot of low pop servers. Why they haven't merged those, I'll never know. They went overboard creating new servers for the launch of TBC. Worst of all, was that since TBC introduced Blood Elves and Draenei races, the new servers consisted of about 90% Blood Elves and Draenei. I started up on one of the new TBC servers, and I was like literally 1 of 2 Tauren Druids on lol. Everybody else were Blood Elves. Then people got bored of the novelty of a new server and left to go back and play their Mains, thereby killing those new servers. Free transfers helped some of those servers, but there are still a good number of low pop. ones. Primarily PvP servers that seem to have suffered the most.
The author of this article claims that free transfers are killing the game by spreading out the population. Well what are they going to do? Let there be a couple high pop. servers and let the rest die? Perhaps a merger might be in order, but WAR is one of the most successful launches for MMO's in recent years, and it hasn't been out that long. A lot of people don't like jumping on board a brand new MMO until more content and bug fixes are rolled out for a better gaming experience.
If new players go to create a character and see a high pop. one, and low pop. ones, they will almost always create a character on a high pop. one to have people to play with. If they have free transfers and have a bunch of even pop. servers, than all the servers will benefit from new players, instead of everybody flocking to a select few.
WAR isn't going anywhere. If Vanguard: Saga of Heroes is still online, WAR has a very bright future.
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