Quote Originally Posted by Sirmarki View Post
Nobody is 'being told to move to Asura'.
True, but the key part of that response is that I WAS told to move here, and I see FFXI streamers and people on forums tell others to move to Asura all the time, and for good reason, it indeed shouldn't need to be that way.

You admit that the population imbalance is a big issue, your only argument against such is:



Quote Originally Posted by Sirmarki View Post
So how would they go about merging? I don't think they can really merge Asura with any other servers - The congestion in some events and the very select few areas used now would be over crowded. We also have the issue of some people simply like to play on a quiet server, what will happen to them?
The same way they have in the past, by population, Asura probably doesn't need to be merged with any server, but other servers should probably be merged with one another. As to those who like playing on a quiet server, I imagine those people are few and far between but you can't make everyone happy, and I've seen looooots of calls for merges with few people coming on to say they prefer dead servers in response.