Honestly, when we started we had no idea what that even meant. We were still fairly new to the game, having only played for about a year before that (maybe). We found a server with no lag and a great community, probably about 30 reg players at that time. Made awesome friends. By the time we realized what a legacy server was, we had already invested a lot into it. I think this is probably the case with a lot of noobs.
We have been trying for about 4 months to set up new, but man alive is it difficult to find a decent PvE server out there. I can understand not wanting to support dead servers. I'm just shocked that they would delete them without giving some of us dedicated players a chance to move somewhere else. Plus, it's sad to lose everything