Re: "There will be an announcement on sunday...you're going to like it" -Dev tod
2 servers, 1 community. The vanilla community. The fact that 2 quality (or so the dev teams say) servers are releasing can only bring more new blood to the scene. So what if that means people get a choice? By limiting your view to such a black and white scene you fail to see the positives in life.
If there was just a pool of 500 players. Thats it, then I would have agreed with you. But that community isn't like that, people play on multiple servers, people switch servers constantly, new players arrive on the scene and vets retire from it. To blindly assume that there will be a make all be all server and that will forever split the players base is too black and white for something like an ever-evolving community.
Why do you think companies spend so much on advertising? They are reaching for new markets, trying to attract or inform people that they exist, whilst showing off their product. Always attracting new blood to their products. Take the PS4 and Xbox1 for example. The gaming community already know they exist. Anyone with even the slightest clue, thanks to word of mouth and journalism, has heard about these systems. Anyone who cares can simply type into google "PS4 vs Xbox" to see which one they prefer, So why spend millions on TV adverts and the like? Yes there are many reasons but the main one is to attract new blood into the console market. Ultimately these new bloods will have to choose...but you know what? Suddenly the population of the console community has risen.
This will be the same effect on the vanilla community, when both servers are released (if they are both decent, who knows for now).