Originally Posted by Solitaire
Considering how little regard that have shown for the players, I would be more inclined to say that, if a reduction in servers was desired, they would not merge any shards but just close down one completely and go with the other, Order most likely cause it is the easier to manage shard. Why go through all the hassle and heartache of another merger and lose a lot of players from both shards, assuming they even know how to do it in the first place, when all they need to do is say to the players that it is not cost effective to keep 2 shards and either go to the one remaining or leave. We have already demonstrated to them that many of us are willing to jump shards and create new characters when Chaos was down and few thought it would ever come up again. So they lose a few diehards that won't start all over again. The cost savings of closing a shard would surely offset the subs they would lose. Yep. I could see that being their line of thinking.