I agree server mergers at this point are definitely short-sighted and just asking for all kinds of trouble (both for SE and the players). But who knows what drastic trick they'll pull out of their ass. I certainly didn't expect Tanaka to be canned like he was. And personally, if SE listened to people like me, these servers would've been shutdown the week after the Standard Edition dropped, and we'd be anxiously awaiting a new game instead of being disappointed by lacking patches (this is by no means the current dev teams fault, but if you look at the forums, clearly leaving everything open for everyone to try as it is made just makes the majority bitter about the game direction.)