I would honestly go as far as.....

PvE server = 0%

Normal server = 50%

Arsha = 100%

That way all of the fokes crying about risk vs rewards between PvE and other servers. Can just shift the arguement towards the real topic. ~Not having enough defenseless players to grief.~

But yeah the other guy is right. Even if all the players quit BDO. No big deal, because life moves on. Well at least for us average people. I don't know about those that dedicated their whole lives and savings to the game.

I have my doubts that these threads mean anything to PA, and I believe that permanent PvE servers are inevitable but just wanted to +1 this thread

No one will want to play on a pve channel with -50% drop except life skillers. So nothing will change.

they are pve servers called Seasons +olivia and they r dead! most crowd channels always arsha season or arsha or nodewar channels. Because pvp is the most fun.
many causals here want safe space and carebear attitude.but, endgame for pvp they need to be prepared for it. lifeskill/afk  for the fun of it and making money not the core gameplay, since ranking means nothing and no one cares about it except when you talk about Growth/wealth/pvp those 3 that count cuz it's highly motivated. yet, they are not important now many reached 50guru and they r bad at making money and pvp.

less pvp players = dead game like in wow. the world pvp is dead in wow. i played it 3 months and no one cares to fight  there no more cuz of many casual players in it.

With this attitude and the way you express it is blood - curling (when I read it), no wonder PVE/Life Skiller hates PVP so much and just wants to be left alone. With this going and continuing.... players will leave the game. Also... I wrote this in another post. May as well paste it here:

Someone told me before that if you get rid of the PVE / Life Skillers, the market, economy, and player base will die faster than you can blink. There are also a lot of PVE / Life Skillers players that pay a lot (not just PVP) and PA needs that to keep the server going and push out new content to quality of life improvement/changes for the player base. Also, without Life Skillers, who is going to train the horses? Who is going to provide stuff in the market and buffs for you to use? The game will collapse....

Regarding your WOW Comparison: 

Many ppl here also dont even bother and just switch servers. Open world pvp i ve seen is just toxic and unfair pk so far.

They need to switch the PVP focus away from griefing and to some meaningful PVP, maybe still open world, there is just no good content for it. 

Grinding just is frustrating sometimes when u meet a small portion of bad players that, so the people that just want to relax and enjoy a game will stick to LifeSkill for a big part(LifeSkill Community is Huge). 

Without Life-Skill this game would have no other value for me than graphics, since enhancing is not entertaining nor fun and grinding is the same, in Lifeskill i can swap professions if i am tired of one. Or gather rare materials or just want to make missing items for people while not looking on profit. (What a Role-Playing-Game should allow me to do)

The best Server for me was Olvia(returning Adventurer), but you saying it beeing dead might be, because people can not access it unless they stop playing 30 days. I would play there 90%  if i could!

Every player plays different, and i see TONS of Topics asking for a solution for PVE/LifeSkill , so u cant act as its a minority. 

Compare their Discords: 

BDO official discord : 17k Members

BDO Lifeskill discord: 11.5k Members 

No one likes offical discord. Because of the spamming an people arent interested in that server.Has nothing of value to most unless its events.

PvE LFG NA has  8,389 members thats one Region out of the two supplied. Thats half of the official discord without even counting EUs LFG(Going by your numbers). 

Edit: It also states multiple places the game is PvX. 

Also BDO Rare Treasures has 15,849 members.

Also the proper lifeskill discord has 27k members. Not all of them lifeskill, some of them look for knowledge some look for best methods of making a worker empire as its not actually a lifeskill discord but a general purpose discord covering everything except classes.

And the offical server is 69k(nice) members. So idk where you have your numbers from.

Im in the  one you can access through Discord directly btw. The one where all Announcements etc. are posted and PA Members/Mods and Partners are listed. I think its without Console people tho. 

I have no idea what you ppl do tbh. I lifeskill and I grind....and the last time I randomly got killed in open world outside of a guildwar was like 2 years ago. 

Most pvp ppl have better things to do with their karma than killing helpless lifeskillers. Also we have so many channels now, that escaping some annoing idiot is so easy. 

I wouldnt say no to pve only servers, cause it would show pve only players that sharing a spot is kinda bad for your money.