This all happened within 24 hours of transfers and wow gold classic didn't stop. From the time they ceased Horde transfers (Source) it was far too late, and in essence forced anyone who did not make it in time need to pay money to move. Many people did not make the deadline to transfer with their guild.
But it is certainly dead for the Horde. To Incendius exactly the same thing that happened to Skeram and Stalagg had happened in a tragic twist around. In selecting a server that was balanced, I had failed my guild now.
And there are things that we might have done that servers have done to avoid these sorts of situations. Such as setting up arrangements between Horde and Alliance for Darkmoon Faire week and running into Blackrock Mountain. We could have colluded more to ensure that our server would remain healthy and endure the test of time. But with imperfect information regarding Horde morale as well as the truth of this situation of what might happen and finally did happen: Just how were we supposed to understand?
This is sadly a matter of sport design and human psychology I can't even fathom answering. That having been said, below are the issues we confront with transports: Skewed Alliance/Horde ratios leading to boom-bust servers. (Stalagg, Skeram, and now Incendius).Real money trading utilizing server moves. Transferring low level characters for $25 from a dead host where resources are simple to farm to a greater pop server which is more competitive. People today use these transfers to mule around major ticket items like edgemasters and cloudkeeper legplates in an effort to increase a gold seller's inventory of gold on servers that are more challenging to farm gold that the old fashioned way.
AQ War Effort. Botting and Multiboxing (This is a huge post, and I think this one deserves attention, not here). The third stage deserves some excuse, and I hope the Devs are taking appropriate steps to remove this potential issue. After the war effort starts there will be servers which have the materials ready to cheap wow classic gold turn daily 1. This is nothing but a math problem that has already been solved weeks in advance. And using spreadsheets and types it makes it super simple to monitor all the materials.
