They are moving people from low population servers to MEDIUM population servers. So it wouldn't bring problems to high population servers.
And why would it be a problem if low population serrvers become a ghost town? is there anyone right in his mind that would really stay there? They'll soon notice that their server is gonna be abandoned and move themselves. It's not like it costs them something to do it.

On the other hand, moving people from medium pop server to low, wouldn't work. Who would abandon a place that's actually fun because he sees people around, to try his luck in a server with much less people?

Mythic should be definately applauded for offering this kind of option so promptly.

Abriael: I think what he means is it doesn't make much sense to transfer people off a low-pop server unless you plan on closing that server down. What's the point of keeping a server alive that has no players?

If the intention was not to close the low-pop server it would make more sense to offer free transfers from high-pop servers to low-pop servers to help balance the load.

Seems like Mythic is already closing servers down... not good.

@Bilbo

It's really not that bad that Mythic's contemplating closing down servers. If they had fewer servers at launch, the server queues would have been long across the board.

With the amount of hype that WAR's launch got, it was probably extremely difficult to determine how many servers to open with. It's a delicate balance.

Meh, the above reply that ended up as a reply to michael was actually intended to end up here... Must.. sleep... more...