Crossbow made the suggestion a few pages back (post #303) that free server transfers should be offered in an attempt to merge the servers in a roundabout fashion. The only thing I can think of that would make this a possibly bad idea would be that not everyone would be aware. Maybe they are on sabbatical or whatever. Ultimately, servers that are low pop now would be even lower pop then, but I doubt that any of them would have anywhere near as few players as zero. And as long as there are players on a server, it doesn't seem like a smart business plan to trash those toons.**

That said... is the Paid Character Transfer page new? I don't remember it being there before. Apparently you can buy transfer tokens for roughly $25 each. You can get to the page via the Community tab at the top of the page.

**Although, I guess in a way that was what happened when Turbine took control of the European servers again.