Oh man.I AM FIRED UP.Q When will you do something to helpsave the dyingdead servers like merging some of them? I would even be willing to give up my beloved toon s name for being able to have fun again.A1 Cross realm zones are definitely our first move toward improving the play experience for low pop servers or even medium population.
Beyond just the fact that the world will be more populated, the ability to make friends at the battle tag level since that friendship level is cross server combined with the ability to do group content with those players represents a huge step forward in the ability for players on smaller servers to access a huge community to play with.
With regard to the auction house, I can imagine a future where we might decide to make auction houses cross server.It s not something to jump into lightly, but there may be ways to design a cross realm auction house that ensures a viable economy without getting too big .