Server mergers, because they are forced, aren't necessarily the way to go. But I 100% agree with Mischief; if you ARE an active player who wants to play and progress and are stuck on a server, through no fault of your own, where you are lucky to get more than 3 players in a banish (and its the same on all realms on that server) - that player is almost bound to lose interest and stop playing. This idea of players abusing the server transfer and so on doesn' t cut it. The end result would be loads of totally (as opposed to 95%) dead servers and a small number of very active ones, which must be better for the game as a whole. You can't be so afraid of a few miscreants that you strangle everything. Other games allow paid server transfers and it works fine, this is nothing new, nothing that hasn't been tested in numerous other places. No point in debating if it works - it does work, just look at other games.