Quote Originally Posted by Ryel View Post
I'm guessing that merging servers is a logistics issue in the current game though.

In 1.0 when they merged some of the servers they didn't have to worry about the issue of housing wards, i imagine that's probably the largest hurdle to overcome seeing as they're already having issues accommodating the number of players on large population servers. Trying to bring over waves of new players from another server many of whom might already own property seems like a nightmare with the way they've designed the wards.
I'm thinking it's more of a PR issue, when people hear "This MMO is merging game servers" people tend to scream "game is dying, might as well leave", "didn't know this MMO was doing so bad" and whatever else. It's one of the reasons WoW has so many dead servers that almost no one plays on, people are too quick to call the death of a game year in and year out.