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A lot of this could have been avoided if Nexon's NA team actually changed the 'recommended' server over the last decade. They did it for like the first two years, and then as soon as the Alexina server was added there wasn't any change whatsoever to that list since. Because of that, a lot of new players likely went straight for the 'recommended' server, and the other servers atrophied. And it was like a domino effect from there: people jumped servers because the population stopped growing - I remember a lot of friends of mine from Mari and (especially) Tarlach eventually quitting or jumping to Alexina due to the lack of people in the server.
Seriously, I remember there was a point where seeing a new player in Tarlach was like finding a five-horned unicorn, while on Mari you'd run into like a small handful of new players each month. The state of Alexina sounds uncannily like what happened with the original three servers - and I'm pretty sure it's because the 'recommended server' thing is funneling players into Nao, new and old. I mean, a new player or a returning player won't have a lot of bearing on why the server is recommended, and the most they'd know at a glance is the relative population of each server... sooooo they'd probably just roll with the recommendation seeing as there's no obvious difference in the choices.
If they don't do a server merge, they should at least switch up the 'recommended' server every so often to keep the number of new/returning players joining both servers with a more even distribution, so they don't just starve Alexina like they did the original servers.
