Quote Originally Posted by Skivvy View Post
You make it sound as if wanting to play with friends is a bad thing. As far as I'm concerned, the blame should fall squarely on SE. They could have been more proactive in their attempts to limit server size. They allowed paid transfers as a way to circumvent the initial server lock that was in place. This was going on just until fairly recent. Perhaps they should have also started the incentivized / free transfers far earlier. Maybe they could also somehow buff up their servers/datacenters so that they no longer feel as if they are made out of sticks and mud.

It's an odd thing that people are so quick to blame players just for wanting to play on a specific server with friends instead of placing the blame on the people who designed the system in the first place.
There's nothing wrong with playing with friends that's what the cross-realm friend list is for to be able to play with them. Sadly enough questing with friends doesn't always work out especially when there's an instanced part. Because of that it's probably best to just worry about the grouping to do df with friends.
Also, if players really want to play with their friends then they'd go to a realm that they can all play instead of just telling the other guy to go to the over populated realm that's closed down. It works both ways.