Quote Originally Posted by Cesil View Post
We should not have to pay them extra money to play with more people. That's not really fair when a population problem happens, its Square Enix job to fix, not the customers. Sure, I could transfer, pay them more money, lose my name, then have all my friends who just paid to transfer to my server..pay to transfer..AGAIN, probably lose interest and not want to play. I can't ask them to do that.

And no, its not only about the name, there are many more reasons that I didn't feel the need to list. I figured expressing a desire due to lack of population on my server enough info, as SE devs said on the reddit AMA, they will do it if enough people ask. So..I asked :P
I completely understand what you are saying and some what agree. However, you have to deal with the here and now. Holding on to something that may or may not even happen (mergers) is kind of self-defeating. At least by transferring yourself, it's done and dusted (ie in your control).