Guild Wars 2

With the new megaserver there really is no need to be on any particular server for pve. The only reason people would be on or transfer to different servers would be for WvW.
I don’t understand why anet cannot base WvW on population and transfers now. I understand there may be a small percentage of people that transfer to different servers due to friends. I also know that some servers are also more Pve based. I do think it’s time for anet to give this theory a try considering the fact of the megaserver and mass transfers to and from different servers. I’m just surprised they haven’t figured this out yet.

By artificially keeping the population on each server at Very High, they can charge more for transfers. That is the prevailing forum sentiment anyhow.

I don’t believe there is any “artificial keeping it very high”. It is just no one look at it.
Since ever everyone who’s last registration was on a server count to the population of that server, if he is active, inactive.

So even if your active population dropped a lot your registered population did not. And therefore not your transfer status.