Having been on more than one dying/dead servers has cost me, outside of the money spend on transfers, more than enough frustrations on be it recruitement, be it group forming, be it the economy.
As a result my guild and I finally halted the frustrations by going (thus paying once more for another transfer, with more than one character) to a server with a then unproblematic server population. To eventually end up in nothing more than a rediculous queue.
A queue that could have been foreseen and anticipated upon by you @Blizzard which hasnt been done. We all pay for our migrations and our contribution each month so you Blizzard, are able to maintain our basically rental fun.
But instead we have gotten lag, unfunctioning auction houses, silly bugs and a few other things. But most of all we’ve gotten a dead duck to play with and nothing really worth our money. Yet we remain loyal or addicted and keep comming back and still p(l)ay.
Now my question is, when does this stop being a cashgrab and when will you start to understand or start with listening to your players?
It is not really that hard to comprehend that we as players, even when the queue to log in is so rediculously large that it disables up to 15k players a day on Gehenas to play the game while we all pay our fees. Start to understand we do not want to be on a dying or dead server to start with, that is exactly what got us in this situation.
Yes, we chose to be on Gehenas out of the prior frustrations. But you as a company chose to Instead of taking preventive actions (like merging dying servers which have been done in the past) to gladly watch us migrate earning the sweet transfer fees along the way and knowing - or at the very least be able to predict this was about to happen just by looking at the past, accounts and characters on the server- this was about to happen. After the servers bled to death you happily closed them down.
The players of course could have seen it coming from a mile away, also by just looking at the past. But perhaps we saw a hail mary in layering and having no insights in the sleeper accounts of the server’s population the queue estimates are kinda hard to predict.
So at the very least let us then start filling up servers that have a couple of thousand players instead of a mere 100. That would at least entice a load more players to migrate then toppling themselves in a hell of empty auction houses and no groups to run dungeons or quests with.
Do something for your players. Something more than a blue/twitter post. Or pretent.