As someone who is from Nao (Formerly Mari), I refuse to go through that naming fiasco again.
I happen to care about my characters' names because it's a way for people to identify who I am and I'm sure many feel the same way.
'Special snowflakes'? Just letters? I respect your opinion, but why must everyone else suffer for it?
I'm all for merging Alexina with Nao, but I personally feel like it would just be better to find a way to make both servers happy instead of sacrificing one or the others (or boths) names.
Personally I can't wait for every Alexinaposter who memed the merge into happening in the first place to get a +Alexina on their IGN and all of their pet's IGNs, to be forced to disband their families, divorce and lose their marriage dates, be forced out of their guilds and lose their join dates, and to have to suffer the destroyed economy that they created for every other player by causing an even more massive scarcity of materials while multiplying the number of people buying chinese gold and inflating basic materials to hundreds of times what they're worth, and still not be able to find parties for what they want to run because the playerbase is too antisocial to play outside of its small friend groups.Ok boomer.