I am one of the very few players left on Giantstalker. During leveling through Cata and MoP 80-90 I basically saw at around 5 other players, where two of these were in town. This means there is about 10 items on AH an no chance of getting help from other players with professions, effectively no longer making this game an MMO.
I don’t understand, why a server like this has not been merged with another higher pop server already.
I see on the forum, that this is a problem on other servers as well. So, please, get these low pop servers merged or at lease make transfer free on them.
I’m assuming you missed it, but for Cataclysm they offered Free Transfers to essentially merge the servers down. I think Hydraxian Waterlords RP Realm was going to do this as well but got petitioned to still exist for some reason.
Those servers, including Giantstalker are locked and if you don’t have a character already there are not open for creation so no one else will be joining you there. The post also says at the bottom they would remove all characters eventually anyways but obviously this still hasn’t happened over a year later.
Personally I’d bite the bullet and pay for a transfer. Your experience on such a dead realm won’t be a positive one unless you like playing solo, and there’s no confirmation date of the mergers and it might have been forgotten about. You can see Realm Pop with Ironforge or Raider.io. I would also check see if a Free Character Migration exists as it might allow you to move.
I think what they did was a good decision, left 5 healthy EU-EN Servers, really wish they’d do the same to Retail.