Indeed. I was on a medium server since vanilla that slowly got dominated by the horde. Alliance has pretty much been dead on it since the final months of WOTLK, which IMO is when the game died. Expansions always revive interest and bring old faces back, but within a few months it always returns to a slow funeral procession. I haven't played in months. The game is dying, and introducing new environments isn't going to change that.
I wish Blizzard would just either merge smaller servers or give new and old players an incentive to join small servers. It sucked being on a small/medium 70% horde server as alliance.
Anyway ESO...looks bad but most MMOs do at this stage so it has plenty of time to improve. Still I don't see it making much of an impact or selling well regardless. It'll be f2p within a few months.
Yup. Everyone has moved to one of the large servers. I say there are five, but there are more like 7 including Area 52 and Dark Spear. Outside of those 7 of so, all other servers are damn near dead.
Considering there are dozens upon dozens upon dozens of servers, using evidence that one of 7 servers has a ton of players is pretty hilarious.
North America needs to be merged down to about 14 servers.
http://www.wowwiki.com/Realms_list - server list. You haven't heard of 99 percent of these servers and they are mostly empty.