RedTempest

Sadly we have decided to stop raiding on Anathema. If you want to contact us despite our inactivity on Elysium, please visit https://endurance-gaming.org/ We wish all the rest of you lots of success and fun though :)

Updated the recruitment part a bit. /bump

Seems like two people from my guild (that I know of) were hit too.

Exactly this. The Nost PvE server - while far from dead - had at peak times 3,5-4k people playing at the same time. Today was about testing the hardware for this very server, and it handled 7-7,5k players without crashing. We'll see what next week is going to bring, when they test the PvP Servers hardware.

Was fun, looking forward to next week and ultimately the full release some time after that

They somewhat answered this during their AMA on reddit. Pottu posted a summerized version of it in the General Discussion section of the forums.

Here it is, for those that haven't seen it yet.

Many people from my guild and I will be (re-)rolling on the "old" PvP server once it launches. We were already raiding there for a while and while some of us even might've been up for a fresh start, the majority just isn't willing to give up their characters as long as there is the possibility of continuing where we left off in April. As for the population of the three servers - I think that all three will be fine. Nostalrius did good before the shut down (population-wise) and many folks will probably come back to continue playing there again - be it on the fresh server or the old one. Besides that there will be quite a few new players that got wind of the server from the games media etc following the shut down of Nost. I don't think that it's very likely that the old server will be empty after a few months as some people are fearing. Many people in guilds will go wherever their guildmates go, and it's just not very likely that a majority of people in a guild will want to give up their characters. As for new players being drawn to a fresh server rather than the old one - once the fresh server has been up for a while (and has some active level 60s raiding etc) it will be just as appealing as the old server which should balance things out a little even if most people will try to get on the most populated server. But that's just my two cents on the matter, we'll see how it all goes