I DO NOT support this merge! This is NOT a good idea! There are so many problems with this idea. I'm going to write them all down for you and hope I generate enough of an audience to sway this decision. Here are the main points as to why I do NOT support this merge:
1. I'm from the Yggdrasil server. It's a cute little server, usually 500-600 people on at a time. Everyone knows each other. It's cozy. There are usually 1000+ people online at the Valkyrie server, and another couple hundred at the Ymir server. Put all those together and you have almost 2000 people online on a single server! Talk about overcrowded!
Lol this is where I stopped reading. You think 2000 is crowded? Where were you back when the original Chaos' population was 15000?
By no means is more players bad. It's when there are no players left that single guilds start to monopolize WoE. Ever heard of alliances? We actually use to have those back in the day thanks to large server populations.
It was nice when Pront, Geffen, Payon and Al De alliances existed. 4+ guilds from each major town working together, competing with the other towns, trading spaces in guilds to get GD access, sharing vent servers with each other, etc. The list goes on and on. Those were the golden days of RO. Not now. Not when there's 200 players left on Ymir and the entire server is owned by 1-2 guilds.
While I dislike renewal a lot and probably will not return to it even after this merger occurs (I'm a beta player and I'm enjoying my time a lot on Classic), it still is the best thing that could happen to it - there's no denying that. If you were an older player you'd know that there's no worse feeling than logging in and seeing your server's population plummet at the rate Ymir's did. It sucked when Chaos died and it sucks just as much now that Ymir has died.
RO is an MMO. 200 players is not an MMO. The server populations were never intended to be as low as they are now. They are suppose to be high. I don't know how many other MMOs you've played, but when server populations decline on other MMOs they are always merged with other servers just as they are here on RO. That's how it always is.
If you can't grasp or comprehend this then maybe you shouldn't be playing MMOs.