I can't help but agree. For those of us on a severely underpopulated server (or even a lopsided one), there are all sorts of disadvantages. Now, I'd never advocate putting us all on huge realms with queues and everything, but a little consolidation to bring us up to medium status and perhaps bring a bit of stability to the economies and a bit more activity to /2 would be nice.

I don't think it will be neccessary to consolidate low population servers because with the advent of LFD and phasing. Blizzard can really take steps to bring its entire population together vice splitting us into segments. The idea to make Battlegroup servers handle instances can be expanded to Raids, Auction Houses, Mail, Guilds, Arena etc...

I know that some segmentation will be needed due to language barriers (or do they? - translators), but i think this can really open up doors for everyone.

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Or at least offer free full-slate transfers from terminally bugged servers like Thrall to a less-populated server...hopefully one with a higher Alliance presence.

The problem isn't that simple. There are very few low pop servers. What we have too much of is population imbalances where there is a high horde population and low alliance population, thereby making the alliance feel they are on a low pop server.

Moreover, server consolidation is taboo in the mmo world as it is indicative of mmo collapse and signals the end of the game.