What is the general consensus on server emptyness?

That would be a loverly way to tick many people off. Ay yai.

Anyway, on to the topic. War Witch said a long way back they had some trick up their sleeves that they were working on for this, and I thought the implication then was that it was not a merge.

My own gut feeling/hope is that they are going to find a way to allow for teaming cross-server. That'd be a win for the whole supposed situation. Plenty of people to team with all over, and "low population" servers will still have a charm for those that like them.

I don't think there are any issues with finding teams, personally, but the above scenario would hopefully shut those up who seem to think there is.

I don't think the devs or whoever directs them should do something simply to 'shut people up'.

Cross server teaming would only address the population problem(and yes I know there is no problem in a lot of folks' eyes) in a short term kind of way. If the game is bleeding players, that's only going to help the problem for so long.

As I said before, it is fine to sit in our comfy security blanket and say declining numbers have no effect. You can still get teams, you can still do TFs and SFs.

The longer term effect is going to be telling when expansions of the caliber and scope of GR simply don't get done anymore and/or updates start having less substance.

In the end, my current game experience is unaffected, but I'm not at all confident that this will remain the case in the long term if GR doesn't bring some decent numbers back to the game.

Forbin is right in his suggestion as to how to approach the problem. And the sad thing is that the longer they wait to truly do some effective marketing for the game, the more ineffectual it will be when they decide to actually try to do something about it.

Because eventually those who think the servers are ghost towns will be right, they just have to keep the thread alive for enough years.