Hello there, I was just thinking that there is a lot of realms with really low population even 10 online players. Even in red HIGH populated realms like Drak´thul there are really not a lot of people In Stormwind which is capital and sometimes I can´t find anybody.
And there are bunch of people complaining that their server is low populated and they want to move but don´t have enough money and maybe they will stop playing wow and unsubscribe because they have no friends.
It´s also the question of maintenance like you need there a lot of things to do it consumes a lot of power because you need more PCs to run that realms. So basically instead of 80 realms or more I don´t know the exact number why don´t you reduce the numbers of realms? There would be more people on realms more economy lower servers upkeep and no low populated realms on which nobody want to play.