i always giggle when i see the argument of "cannot catch up without a fresh start"
are you for real man, you can play 3 months and sit on 5K+ GS eaaaaasily. that is only 3K lower than the top players and high enough to participate in any PvP. those who really want to catch up can do it no matter what. and cut the "need to pay thousands of euros" crap. thats BS
on a fresh start, those who have 8K GS now will just nerd the crap out of the game and be ahead of you just like on the old servers. if you don't commit half your life to this game then you will never catch up to the top. fresh start only gives you the feeling for a month that you are on par before those who are the top now will be the top again.