It's amazing reading and trying to analyze the mental gymnastics in some of these posts. First people beg for a server merge, and now that it's finally happened and the in-game community is far closer than before with the arbitrary walls brought down, people complain about it. If it were up to me, Mabi would have one main server with a bunch of channels hosted in different parts of the world, similar to how RuneScape does things. I've always hated there being four arbitrary walls that only serve to seperate the community of the same game. I logged into my old Mari character after the merge just to check things out, and ended up practically abandoning my Alexina character because I just enjoy playing in the newly merged Nao server far, far more. There's people everywhere, and the world feels like it's actually got stuff going on in it at all times. Before the merge, everything felt stagnated. You'd be hard-pressed to find a group for Girg raids and the like, even in Alexina. You'd have to wait around for certain times of the day or join one of the select few massive guilds (In Alexina's case, Asesinos and Prudentia come to mind) to do a raid or two.
For me at least, Mabi after the merge feels like an MMO again. I'm actually meeting new people and making new connections. I know they all played on the other three servers before the merge, but that's the thing; I would never have known these people or got to enjoy the game with them if the servers didn't merge. Again, all seperate servers do is put up arbitrary walls in the community in my eyes. I remember meeting people IRL that happened to play Mabi, and talking to them about it. Then when the inevitable question, "Which server do you play on?" came up, it's always a 75% chance they aren't in the same server.
So yeah, guess you could say I'm glad the servers are merged.
To be Honest, Alexina server, doesn't want the overpopulation that Nao has right now. things are laggy, shop channels are denied to get into. but its getting better as days as passing and more people go back to being away from the game for a bit.
And to you. Stop speaking for Alexina if you don't even play in it. I've played in Alexina for six years, and we have people actively leaving Alexina to play in Nao. Alexina was a stagnant hellscape before the merge, and it remains even more so after. The guild of people I played with in Alexina for all those years have all migrated to Nao because it feels like the game is actually an MMO over there.