Following the maintenance last night we have all seen that there are now two Official Hardcore servers; 

Defias Pillager (EDT) 
Skull Rock (PDT)

The current general consensus among global Hardcore players is that the overwhelming majority of players are currently planning to play on Defias Pillager. This is because Hardcore heavily favors playing Alliance and given that the servers were named after each factions most lethal early game monsters/areas - People have chosen this server as their home. 

As to above, the overwhelming majority of players will be Alliance and at the current point in time there is only a SINGLE Horde guild recruiting within the entirety of the NA region. This almost immediately renders Skull Rock as the 'dead' server should endgame and world activity be taken into consideration.

If we look deeper into specifics of the server locations then we can safely assume that West Coast servers will provide the lesser of two evils and the 'Lower' of the two pings currently available to Oceanic players. This immediately presents a problem because if you read the statements made above you will see that the West Coast server (Skull Rock) will likely be DOA (Dead on Arrival) which will subsequently give Oceanic players only one choice if they wish to play in a populated community but also result in having even higher latency as a result. This immediately places an unfair decision upon the region as a whole of which is only a decision of the lesser of two evils.

In a game mode where Death=Delete it simply isn't enjoyable for an entire region to constantly live in fear of a slight delay or a lag spike being the sole reason they lose all their hard earned progress. THIS ISN'T FAIR.

Please sign this petition and hopefully together we can bring awareness to the Official Hardcore developers that we as a region AT LEAST want the chance to enjoy the game mode and not have it killed off before its even begun by not giving us a fighting chance.