They announced how worlds would be shuffled.

[Rymm]

I'm a bit surprised at the number of people acting shocked over this. It's the same sort of reaction that the lockdown of Balmung and Gilgamesh prompted, even though both were/are totally necessary. This has been a long time coming. They've been trying to encourage people to move off of congested worlds for years now, gently at first and with ever increasing force. Something had to give and it appears that this is the moment.

I know when things were really bad at the start of SB that there was even speculation that the over loaded worlds might get forcibly torn right in half. I guess we should just be glad they decided to go with something a little less extreme.

[ElainaMason]

I know when things were really bad at the start of SB that there was even speculation that the over loaded worlds might get forcibly torn right in half. I guess we should just be glad they decided to go with something a little less extreme.

But that was only for some weeks and then we didn't have problems anymore.
We will really get problems with filling groups in the two EU Datacenters some weeks / months after 5.0.