I always wonder, what people mean with this.
Yes, the transfers were only open for two weeks.
However, sometimes few days are long enough to depopulate complete realms and turn others into mega realms (e.g. the Firemaw â Gehennas transfers, when almost all of Firemaw horde run away to Gehennas, or Mograine which was empty over night), which were sometimes not even an official transfer target.
That it was ânot properly communicatedâ (there was a blue post by Kaivax, that they fixed the transfersâŚ) can´t be the only reason why not many came back. Maybe it was bad timing due to vacationâŚ
After that, Hydraxian Waterlords was transfer target for all mega realms, and for all SoM realms.
Hydraxian Waterlords being a transfer target for the SoM realms is btw something special - usually you are only allowed to transfer to realms with the same ruleset, means either PVE or PVP for Wrath (era always the most populated PVE and PVP cluster).
Hydraxian Waterlords is the only Wrath realm in EU and US which is target for the PVP AND PVE SoM realms.
It´s not, that the devs didn´t try or forgot Hydraxian Waterlords.
I DO think, they should reopen for at least one or two weeks the transfers from the PVE realms. Some people might have realized, they don´t like the overpopulated realms.
But that there were never transfers since then, is not true.
And, i know some people might not like to read it:
The advertising skills by the Hydraxians are lacking 
If someone who is not in touch with the community MUST assume, there is no one left.
The only guild with a still open guild thread is Vandar bur Nevren, and many have only alts here 
I know that Kinrela already mentioned back then to keep the forum more alive.
Especially when the transfers were open, advertising would have been really helpful.
Keeping the guild threads open and active, maybe with short summaries once a month what the guild did, would be helpful. The guilds raiding should update once a month, what they are looking for or what they have achived.
There is a guild recruitment forum, use it!
Especially the PVE focused guilds.
It´s what Haynes did back then for Boys on Wheels and i know from other lower pop realms or guilds, that it can be really helpful.
I mention it now so explicitly, to make everyone aware, that, if we get (and there is at least a chance that we will) FCT, we will have to go out and advertise this realm.
This will be OUR job.
To blame Blizzard that there was no blue thread, is not sufficient. WE must convince the people, that Hydraxian Waterlords is worth the chance, despite the low pop state right now.
This is even more important, because there were several âHydraxian Waterlords is dead, merge itâ threads over the last few month.
There were some posts, were low pop realms were just declared as âdeadâ because âit´s low pop, it´s deadââŚ
I was busy to say no, we are not dead, there is RP, there are still raiding guilds. The Roleplayers do not want to leave this realm, so don´t merge it!
I´d really hoped, that something like now, this âsave Hydraxian Waterlordsâ movement would have started earlier⌠would have been easier to point to the forum and say: âlook, there are a bunch of player left. Definetly not deadâ, but alsmost all threads were closed.
It´s important, that, if we get FCT, we NEED to advertise the realm. Why this realm is worth to give it a try, especially if one does not necessarily want a mega realm.
The devs can (re)open the transfers, they might even write a blue post, but that would be not sufficient.
The main work, the convincing other players part, will be our responsibility.
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