(New) servers, and why they suck.

Twice now I have quit wow and came back, making a Character on a (New) Server

Once in 2006 and Once right after TBC came out.

Both times I Ended up Transfering my toon to an Old Server.

New Servers are populated by people either trying to make a name for themselves by xfer'ing off their old servers, where they were Relative nobodies (Read: Tokee of Underbog) or Genuine noobs starting off their WoW Careers in a place Recommended by the Game for New People.

So you get these new servers full of noobs and douches, yet still underpopulated by the games standards.

I will list underbog as an Example, since its the most recent server I moved from, my issues are still fresh in my mind.

1.) Low Population, there was Maybe 800 people whom were 70 and raiding, 400 of which were Decently geared enough to do at least Karazhan, and maybe 250 of those werent retards, say 100 werent in a place where they could raid due to time constraints or RL issues, leaving seriously 150 good people on the entire horde side that were decent and raided. Take your 150 Semi-retards and consider that they were all distributed across seriously like 14 guilds, with full-retards filling in the blanks, the More uber of the guilds having 15-20 MAYBE non-retards, but not all of them played at the same time. So you have this core of like 10 people who dont suck, and you are trying to recruit from the benches at the special olypmics to fill out your roster.

2.) Retards, The problem with using 4th String Special Olympians was that they were infact totally retarded, and this would hold your guild back, no matter how hard you tried, no matter how good your core was, you were constantly recruiting to try to find quality players. And guess what, those Quality individuals you want? they have been on an old server since 2004, and they are established, and they arent coming to the ass-backwater underbog to try to start over. QQ

3.) Shrinking Playerbase Daily, If you look at the Underbog forums, on the first page theres usually 3-5 posts from players xfer'ing off, Your pool of quality is shrinking at an amazing rate, and you are replacing them with total retards, Casuals, or noobs.

4.) Lack of Progression due to aforementioned reasons causing a lack of pull of people to your backwater shithole resulting in a downward spiral of filth and stagnation that will only end in server merges in a desperate attempt to fix the situation. At the time of this writing the Underbog has not killed Vashj or Kael, where almost every other server has at least one guild with Illidan on Farm.

In Short, if you are on a Underprogressed TBC (New) Server, you should get out now and avoid the impending flood of refugees looking for a new place to go, get your apps in to good guilds now, xfer it up asap. Theres alot of the game you are missing, and you wont see it on your shithole - especially with Sunwell Plateau coming. If you want to see content before WotLK, xfer.

-Rei