Quote Originally Posted by Dargoth_Draconia View Post
2) Why not merge the server? I made this argument myself and someone answered in a sense that made perfect sense. Merging of the servers is usually a sign of dying game and they do not want to give that image at all. They are trying to make changes to bring players back into the game and not drive people away by saying we are dying so we have to merge servers because most of our servers are complete ghost towns.
It's not even that. Simply enough, no developer starts merging servers (which is a quite development-intensive option) before they fired all their shot and saw that they have no hope of overturning population trends. SE has a quite big shot to fire yet (the PS3 release), so it's obviously not a good idea to dedicate resources to merging the servers in a game that's, in any case, designed to make the most of it's population by making it gather around HUBs.