Locked servers are lovely for the players on it preveting que times and overpopulation, but being linked with friends on different servers sometimes just crushes the spirit of the game.
I have 6 irl friends playing on Firemaw ally, but they stopped playing some time during tbc, and when all started playing again the server was locked, with me being - well locked out.
I can understand that you need to limit the que times etc, but somethings must come to a limit, or otherwise have an opening way of “documenting” a connection to a server or something. Cause this drains the fun in the game.