SF-only Realm
I'm writing this after reading the recent petri post about this SF guy getting killed by his guildies petri'ing out.
I always had the opinion that SF should've never been on the same realm as non SF in the first place. It clashes with the immersion for SF players and from my experience it also pisses off normal players because they're expected to adjust their gameplay to a challenge they never signed up for.
examples: passing on low level BoE's when it's just a couple of silver to you but means the world to a SF player, do you press need even if you have gold from previous runs and could buy the same item on AH? same for chest items. Skipping packs in a dungeon feels fine to people with petris, while it terrifies SF players. Raid loot is impossible to distribute to SF players without precisely planning it out, since you have to loot it on the spot. If your guild decides to let a SF player join, i guarantee you a couple of the 40 people are pissed because this person can't possibly prepare the same consumes as everyone else.
Just look at how PoE does it, they're completely seperate ladders and every player you see in town, is also SF. Of course it's different cause it's not an mmo but it's literally 2 different communities with their own chat channels and everything, because its fundamentally a different experience.
The one problem is that we're fracturing the community even more, which I think is still worth as long as we let players transfer to non SF HC realm whenever they want, this would also allow players to still take SF off at 60 if they want to.