It was already killed. By opening it for transfer 2 weeks ago. Just look at the map now.
The exodus has already begun because of it. Will be openened soon again, because it will start to die.
Man, that’s only one or two mediocre companies that fled the competition on the big servers who wanna stock up on cash. I wonder what you gonna say if Para or Bonzai came back.
Wont change a thing if they come back too, we cant even beat the mediocre ones 
No one on the server could.
It would just be nice to get some answer, people leaving and no one can join the server because we are still locked for some reason, eventhough we are at the bottom of the players online list!
AGS Team any explanation???
I know you hate to hear it, but this is for your protection, and to ensure the highest possibility for you to enjoy the current and upcoming content.
Abaton continues to hit peak almost daily, and has one of the highest active user populations in the region. If we unlock this world, the likelihood of it having long queues on weekends and when Brimstone Sands goes live is high.
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And what day would Brimstone Sands go live? Just so I have it written down.
Octo… waaaaaaaaait a minute. You sneaky snake, I’m not telling. Yet. 
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Okay, seems silly considering players are likely to have encouraged friends to pick up the game (or reinstall it) for the Brimstone release, but if the server is locked they then can’t play together? (I know I have, but I’m sure I’m not the only one)
and i know the usual response of “why don’t you just transfer to an open server” isn’t really an option as asking 20-30 people to move server for 2 or 3 people that are joining doesn’t seem fair, and there is no assurance the same issue won’t happen on that server as well.
Really the locking of a server shouldn’t be the go to solution for queues, as stopping new players from joining or people transferring is a sure fire way to screw the in game economy as well as other aspects with a high turn over rate (pvp).
Sorry for the rant and not really helpful commentary sorry this is the exact same issue we had at launch and cause a number of my friends to stop playing as we couldn’t play together (no one wants to play on a dead/quiet server), is it likely Abaton will be reopened before the Brimstone sands release?
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Yes, tell us the day before so that nobody can plan around it. Nor can AGS market the expansion or fresh servers if they hold the info until the day before. Nobody understands why AGS does this. It benefits nobody.
the day before what, exactly?
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Every game company ever does this because if it slips even a day the community will freak out. Game development is very conplex you can’t expect them to know weeks ahead when they will be done.
the one year anniversary.
it is very silly not to make announcements a week in advance so people can plan around it .most games ppl take days off for these things. as it is it seems like ags really doesn’t care. so the hype machine fails… the streamers aren’t going omg… yeah… it’s a fail to do day of announcements or 6 hours before hand annoucements.
But, we already said in our last Dev Video that the Brimstone Release is in October.
I am, however, very glad you’re all here to celebrate our 1 year birthday with is. 
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so you guys aren’t doing a anniversary event? really?
Yes but then you bring up fresh servers a week later and for the first time ever roll out the PTR in phases which leads people to think potential phase roll out for Brimstone with main zone in October. Plus there’s no way AGS didn’t know the exact date for the Dev Update a month ago.
Absolutely not true. WOTLK exact date was known at least a month out. Ashes of Creation alpha date was known 2 months in advance. ESO has yearly expansions. Maybe they don’t know the exact date for Brimstone but they know how they plan to roll it out, date of the Dev Update, what the anniversary plans are, etc. Even confirmed by a datamine that showed dates for the Halloween event… They for some reason choose not to market or let people know ahead of time when or what will happen and have done it with every update the past year (day of announcements for 90% of content in the game). And regardless they gave an exact date for the launch a year ago then changed in like 5 times and yeah some people freaked out but in the end, a lot more people were able to make plans around the game and that is why it got to 1 million players at launch.
What we have for now, is this very stylish Anniversary tweet:
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I hope Abaton stays locked till they figure out how to deal with resource shortage.
Yeah its all green now but its was the same few weeks back, grab a weapon and come claim it back. Thankfully with golden scarabs more people will get decent gear to pvp and stop whining to unlock servers because map isnt painted in their color.
Exactly. 3 emojis the day before a dev update that was confirmed a month ago is all we get to anticipate the anniversary. A potential anniversary event with nobody knowing ahead of time to plan around it? A decent amount of people expect fresh servers to at least be announced tomorrow which is probably more dangerous than just not saying anything. 90% of updates with less than 1 day notice including actual big updates and apparently expansions now. Just seems like bad marketing and more than a little disrespectful to the people who have stuck with the game the past year. This is my feedback. Do with it what you will.
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