I can also spout nonsense as well. Dynamis is about to be a year old, and it's still the worst place to be as a player on NA. Objectively speaking, it's barely good enough to run roulettes. You know, you play here on that character. You call it doom and gloom, and I call realism.
You can guarantee a percentage of those incoming players aren't going to lookup what server to join? That they won't see all the threads? That they won't see all the players telling them for the love of everything holy no? It's ignorance and naivete.
The majority of the playerbase doesn't play on the server. I know I've been in several FCs where the majority are anywhere else. Don't kid yourself.
Back when I played Wow, I was on a dead server. No matter what we tried, we couldn't revive it. Everyone kept saying that when x happened, it would fix everything and then nothing. The server stayed dead. And then Blizzard merged all the dead servers together, and guess what? My server was still dead. Because you see, the players all filled up the full realms until they locked and then moved to the high ones to make them full, etc. Now, granted, Wow has way too many realms for players. Honestly, Blizzard is wasting a ton of money on server maintenance if you ask me. But the point still remains. Expansions came and went. Nothing changed for the better. It only ever got worse. At best, your dead server is medium now instead of low. Or the real kiss of death the new players designation. Again, that's just Wow server culture, but the same naivete that everything will be better is still intact. At least the Blizzard devs found a fix. It was a dirty fix, but it worked if only on a casual end. We need cross DC queuing, and we needed it BEFORE we got cross DC travel.
Cross DC travel is to blame solely. The pros outweigh the cons of it immensely. I can abandon my dead server and do content somewhere else, and all I lose it access to features I could do when I log off for the day. Seriously, whoever thought cross DC travel wouldn't obliterate PFs and DF queues is a moron.