If people know of an upcoming wipe they won't play. It killed my last live server (Trakanon [1]), the community wasn't dead until SOE confirmed the rumors that they "might" movelog it into Tunare
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The last week or two were a very very empty server. Same might be said for the final 6 months of a 2 year cycle server.