[Striiker]

it is apparent that people lose sight of the fact that there are many, many users on the server who have been putting time in on their play characters who don't care about the fact that they missed out on getting the items which no longer drop or that there are players with a ton of plat etc. I fall into that category as does my wife who recently started playing. P1999 is her first experience playing Everquest and she's really enjoying herself, having leveled up her character to 16 recently. A server wipe would be a huge disappointment to her as all of that work would be gone. We don't have a whole lot of time to play (work, kids, etc) so the couple of hours which we can dedicate to play each night is precious.
Don't get me wrong, I do love fresh server starts a lot. It has a completely different feel compared to older, established servers and I would jump an the opportunity to play on one however I think that at present, it would be best to leave the current server population as is and roll through the remaining expansions, tuning and bug fixing along the way. Once Velious is out and Nilbog is comfortable with the bug situation, a new server would be a great idea. This way, everyone can experience classic on a relatively bug-free server where loot, game mechanics, etc. are as they should be. I suspect that this is the plan (at least that's what I would do and it makes the most sense).