I mean there's no other alternative. Only a finite number of people at any given time even know about p99, and of those a smaller set are able to play regularly. If you keep bifurcating that population by opening a new green but allowing people to continue on the old server as if there is no new server, you'll keep shaving that population down eventually. The ultimate goal of the project is to experience classic EQ, which to me consists of the journey from vanilla through velious.
Think about the experience of starting a new character on blue, or even green right now, as an outsider. It's so topheavy there is nothing to do but rush to 60 and then hopefully get in the back of the line in some guild capable of raiding. That's hardly a classic experience, it's more of a specific type of late-stage p99 server experience now.
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