Why won't SE merge the servers due to few people playing the game?

[Rinsui]

@Abriael
Now, if you really believe that the population of players logging
in more than once a week is higher then 50k, then... oh boy.

I possibly want this game to be good as much as you - although
I tend to be on the cynical side. But it's not enough to completely
warp my sense of reality.

The last time SE allowed empirical ("hard") data to be seen by the
public (before they pulled the plug and hid server population) it was
already declining. That was some 1 1/2 months after launch. And
back then, there were still people in Gridania and Limsa. If you
really believe that player numbers have increased since then...
well, if it makes you happy!

And just to add some sugar-coating: At the moment, this game even
is free-to-play. What do you think will happen to the number of
registered accounts once the monthly fee is intruduced? Will it

a) rise or
b) drop?

...bingo! ^.^/