As a player from the German rp server Celebras, I absolutely support your cause. Blizzard has said that they do understand the fact that some people prefer a small server, even though most might not. My prefered size is about 500-1000 online at night for the facion I play. But I also enjoy rp a lot and actually like my server. So given the choice (and we were all given said choice via free transfers!), I still stayed. There were still 200-300 playerd online at the same time sometimes on Alliance side on Celebras, before the announcement of the “consolidation”. I have so many memories on my home server! It is not just replaceable. I can see that you feel the same way about ZT.
Also: Blizzard chose a devastating way to handle all of this for the server communities. First, they opened free transfers to literally every singe PVE realm in Europe. Then they couldn’t be bothered to tell us in advance which server undecided characters will be transfered to automatically, so this realm might have been a natural destination realm for voluntary transfers. By the way: We STILL don’t know this! For Celebras, it could be any German PVE realm or HW or even an English PVE realm for all we know! For ZT, it might be any English PVP realm or HW or do they just roll the dice and send you wherever? We haven’t been told. Both decisions just led to the community splitting up, because some decided to follow people who had already left to Razorfen, others to Lakeshire, some are trying out HW.
While I have read a message from one of the devs to one of our players that ZT and Celebras are definately to be shut down despite all efforts of the community to stop it, because they think we basically could all just play together on HW, and I do believe that the damage is done, there is no reason to stop telling Blizzard that they really didn’t do any of us any favours. They screwed this one up. Period.
I am severely frustrated by Blizzard’s server management. Yes, all of the “dead” regular pvp servers need to be put to rest. Everybody agrees. Literally. And this never happens. But how is it they don’t understand that we are different? We have been on these forums, on reddit, on twitter, written tickets. And they still feel that this was/is the right decision. Well: It is not.