if they transfer the progressed characters to a new realm that is supposed to be fresh, where is the 'fresh' meaning?
edit-as someone once said:
1. all the vanilla purists who care about "the journey" will opt for fresh start 2. all the players who care any amount about progression will opt for fresh start 3. all the players who want to live in the past while raid logging or simply spam BGs will want to play on an OLD db server while they jerk off over their character login screen at all other times of the day, enjoy being alone.