It seems to me that the only people complaining about populations and pop times are the players from the RP/PVP servers... If you're on those servers and complaining about these things, move to a populated server! I play on dalborra and have only experienced slow pops from just before f2p hit, since then and before that period it was great! I never got asked for any feedback on this issue and would have suggested a server merge for those players to move to dalborra. Or the option to move to a west coast server of the same type if it meant that much to them. But closing them all down is just ridiculous! I understand that 3 servers might not be cost effective to keep but surely 1 is?
I have played on the US servers from day one (final open beta weekend + early access) and transferred to the oceanic servers the moment it was available and I don't intend on keeping a sub going if I have to go back - I already get average ping at best and considering my girlfriend and I do mainly pvp, thats just going to be god awful to do and more frustrating then it already can be. Plus, I have NO ISSUES with population on the Dalborra server.
i also feel ripped off at the fact Biowoare gave us the pre-order option to pay and take our money for ROTHC only to close our servers down before it hits. Very underhanded move and we should be entitled to a refund due to them not providing a product as it was intended to be used. "I intended to play this on oceanic servers and now I can't do this"
This game experience on US servers is not worth the subscription fee