it feels like there are two sides of all this QQing. On one side are the real HARDCORE players. They want hard lvling, hard long lasting raids, be able to gank and have world pvp fights. No RDF and so on. The ppl who wants the HARDECORE realm the staff had in mind. A realm for the ppl who have atleast about 3-4h+ to play every day. The ppl who can commit to a hig end pve guild.
On the other side there are theese casual players that are playing on Lorderon for a hig player cap, the closest thing to a bug free server warmane have, the experience of a 1x rates realm where characters matter, lvling is an experience. The players that hoped to be able to use RDF, the players that hoped for a "blizzclone" server. The player that play some on weekend or for an hour at the time. The player that want to be able to PUG/semi PUG raids.
Unfortunatly theese secon type of players have ended up on Loredareon aswell. And i understand them. Thees kind of players prob dont follow the forum as mutch as the hardecore players. They prob missed som or most of tye info about the true purpose of lordaeron and just saw the fact that: hey, there are on realm on warmane that are nearly bug free, its on a popular patch, it gets updates almost every week, it is freshly started and i have a chance to be part of it from the beginning. Ofc they ended up on Lordaeron.....
My guyess is that the majority of these 9k players belong in the second category. And i think that players will drop out of Lordaeron. Ofc new pop records will be breaken on relesedays and so on. My other guess is that ppl will presist and stay on Lord and keep QQing, keep spamming for RDF and so on. And the HARDCORE players and the staff will go nuts.
So i think the best solution to the problem would be to open a new wotlk realm (or flush an existing one) and aim to make it Blizzclone. The hardecore players will still have their realm and all the rest can go there instead. And i really think it will be atleast a few thousand players.
I think the staff need to do somethong about the situation atleast. Right now all parts are angry.
My thoughts atleast. But i think thare are ppl that feels the same. Mabey not here on the forum, but i think that the forum consists of mostly ppl form the hardecore side of this. (English as second language, dont hate!)