Yea gaming sites would most likely report on a server merger before saying piss all about 2.0 if they even still cared at all. People love to kick something when its down, Schadenfreude and all that.

Thing is mergers/transfers are the correct thing to do right now flack be damned. Yea people are a bit squirrly over the issue, The details are a big stinky unkown.

Though from the little they have said it sounds like they are going to go with mass transfers rather then hard mergers. while it will be a logicstical headache for larger shells on the closing servers it should work out for the best.