Quote Originally Posted by DeceptionsWrath View Post
If they're overpopulated, why even run a recruitment program to begin with? Once again SE sees $.$ over logic. I guess they didn't really think this through. But then i wonder, are they noticing a decline in population? First a "free weekend" and now this?
Not all servers are locked/full, mainly legacy servers. They need to pry people from legacy servers because if not you'll get empty servers and then everyone clustered in legacy ones causing queues and possibly lag.

It's been almost a year so the population has probably stabilised. MMOs have an amazing amount of churn. People try it, maybe for months and then stop playing for various reasons. Some play for five minutes and never play again. Some come back during a major patch. You have to recruit new players to replace those that leave or have a break. The constant subscriber is unlikely to be the majority of the player base. They've had weekends on every major content release. All these promos are needed to keep a healthy population.