The devs need to release the fresh server. The majority of players are waiting to play on the fresh server and the devs realize this. While their concern that NostPvP and NostPvE will have far less people playing on them if they release the fresh server now is valid, forcing people to wait is not going to solve the problem. It is only causing the community to become more toxic by the day as the original players continue to flaunt their entitlement that their servers and desires matter more while the majority of the players twiddle their thumbs and level meaningless characters that they do not care about and waste their vacation time on servers they have no intention of playing on for the long term.
Even if Elysium waits for a another month to release the fresh server there is still going to be a massive migration from the current servers. The only thing the delay is doing is to build continued animosity between the different server player bases and a negative attitude toward the devs. For every fan boy that cheers how great this is, there is a multitude of players that are becoming more and more fed up. A simple review of the discord chat at any time of the day or night will reveal the most common topic by far is when is the new server going to be released.
Yes, it is a free service, but the majority of players would be more than willing to donate to start the fresh server. In fact if the devs put up a donation goal to start the fresh server that consisted of paying for two years payments on all three of servers it would most likely achieve it within the first day.
So please devs stop trying to artificially split the player base into your desired configuration and release the fresh server. You made the decision to retain the characters on the older servers, but the majority of the player base should not be forced to continue waiting to play because you hope for some people to become attached to characters that they do not wish to play any more.
