I liked the last merge. I played on various servers throughout my career of quitting and coming back, and the server I am on now needed more people. Also most of the friends I have now came from the server merge. From a social aspect, I think its just nice to see the game looking busy and lively with a good crowd of people logged in, I always worried about how long the game was going to last when I'd see as few as 400-600 people logged in during the night time.

Of course it has its bad sides as well, I pretty much stopped doing Campaign because the battles were lasting only minutes from when the enemy arrived. However, I think larger server populations help promote the over-all growth of the game, I can't imagine how well new players feel if they end up joining a server with a sparse population where it's slightly difficult to find actual people to play with, especially since this game requires you to do just about everything with a group to get the most out of it.~