From their own announcement in reddit: "We understand that the majority of players are looking forward to playing on the Elysium PvP fresh realm."
Also when you say:
If pleasing the community was actually what mattered, fresh would be released first since, again as they stated themselves, its what most people want. But they have to release old pvp before so that it doesn't die. Its also funny that you say nostalrius players want their stuff back. There's a whole lot of nostalrius players with 60's who still prefer the fresh one (myself included).
And yea, we will be getting fresh servers, what bothers me is the secrecy about it. Feels like nostalrius announcement all over again. You really think they dont know when they can release the server yet? Only case i can think of it being that way is that they want to see how old nost launches, and if they plan on not giving a date until then, GL. Christmas would be the perfect time for a new server release since people have free time. But hey, if they only open the old ones during christmas break, some people will play in them like mindless sheep and forget about fresh.