Hello all. I been visiting this forums (lurking a lot) and i must say Elysium is HIGHEST quality vanilla servers ...there is no competition.
Here is my feedback and opinion so i hope people get some ideas bouncing from this post.
In blizzard's wow ....i think low is 1000 players medium is 3000 very high is 5000 and full is 7000 +...obviously everybody wants to play on a full server because of social activity, pug groups, good economy, good raid runs and lots of activity.
Elysium is a great server don't get me wrong, it's amazing. I think elysium is probably number 1 in the vanilla community on reddit.
SO I think people love starting on fresh either because of hype or they love the "competitive being better than others raid race".
My feedback is - they should make 2 servers - 1 pvp 1 pve - for burning crusade and for vanilla.
For burning crusade they should focus on it as long as possible. There is no flying in old world, and arena and heroics and kara runs are very fun.
Also the class balance is good - both in elysium vanilla and i expect it to be balanced in burning crusade.
As for vanilla servers.....they will die off if you keep them at naxx. Best to reroll them fresh ever few years.
And the populations welll....like i said above - everybody wants a health big populated server for friends social activity groups and gameplay.
Part of me thinks the reason elysium is so full is because it is based off of more then 10 countries (france germeny russia china NA Brazil) where's the other servers don't have a big demographic.
Any ways i love elysium they are the best i just hope they make consciously intelligent decisions and i support them even if the population gets low. Just be careful because for the wow server community - fresh and population = is all that matters for the community it seems.