Happening places and a good indicator of strong health of the server. Past couple of days there have even been two instances of East Freeport. Sadly as did happen with live, all this community will disappear when Guild Halls are released.
There are always 2 Freeport instances in the evening, guild halls will probably never be unlocked on Kaladim. How easy or hard is it to get groups is how I've always judged population, but even that isn't perfect.
Guild halls will never be around because of a lead developer who refuses to respond to feedback, and release content that was available to begin with because of his personal feelings.
Because they are in "expansion mode" for live servers. Which boils down to TLE servers get crapped on. Same reason FD is getting pushed back after the Holidays instead of getting it on time.
This is nothing new though for TLE. Daybreak continually makes schedules that include TLE content releases around November/December that they can never follow through on because it's expansion season. I don't understand why they haven't caught on by now that they aren't capable of both. The Guild Hall decision was made listening to feedback. Lots of feedback. Just not your feedback. Thread after thread and comment after comment about how evil Guild Halls were. It's not like it was a decision that was made in a vacuum. There was a large-scale orchestrated campaign against guild halls from a large subset of the community from the moment Stormhold was announced years ago and they won. These are the same people that got us the 4 month release schedule.
Maybe, but there was a specific post from Kander in discord last TLE saying something like guild hall were a mistake, he doesn't like them, and they will never be on the Fallen Gate server.
he probably didn't change his mind between then and now though... but you never know with these guys. first they insist never beastlords and even ban the word on the forum, then they make beastloards... next they say pvp never again, then they make new pvp server.