Originally Posted by
Sancta93
100% sure they won't refund. Why would they? It's unfair. See it like that: If it takes x hours of work to earn the gear ingame, it will take y<<x hours to earn these items via coins through money in real life. To make it fair, they'd have to convert items & mounts owned into coins and refund those instead of refunding coins spent. This would make the server end up in the same shape it is right now. Dead, because players start where they left.
Restarting the realm itself sounds ridiculous to me. Give me a single reason why it wouldn't end up as dead as it is now after a slight bump after the reset?