I believe it's just being looked at wrong. It shouldn't be SOLELY about recycling the players you already have, it should be about getting more players.

All this serves to do is move the issue from spot to spot and not fix it at all.  

No one likes to play in a death server, and all of us dont want to stop play lc in 6 months,we worried about this, so....lets do it;)you afraid with ranking position?you worried about prices?whats happend if your name change?idk

more players = more competition

1- (aeria) still needs advertising(spread last chaos community)
2- (you, me and aeria) should help the new players in game
3- save the nom ap buyers 3  

I believe newbie buff should be on ALL servers. Newbies shouldn't be forced to only non-PvP server.

Always agreed with this over the years.

Raid servers should be changed to non-PvP to prevent the whole "PKing in front of chapel/Raid" ban issue. And 6th sub should return to PvP status.

Also agree with this. Was it not just so for a short while when first came out?

And they should find a way to make merchants their own area, where you can access them via a portal of sorts to keep the lag off the main subs. So you would "teleport" to a spot where it was all merchants on ANY subserver all in one spot.  

Players who are leaving don't care about the technical obstacles of a server merge. Players who are leaving don't care whether the publishers or the developers are responsible for a given problem, only that the problem is solved and quickly. However polite, easygoing and helpful the GMs may be, if the gameplay is poor, players will leave. Players who are leaving don't care whether Aeria has introduced another extortionately priced, gamebreaking AP item because Aeria “needs to make a profit”. We are often reminded that Aeria is a business and told that we should be grateful for having a game at all. Aeria's players are not a charity and are not obligated to support the item mall. It is Aeria who should be grateful for its players.

The game is dying because there are superior games out there that don't cost an arm and a leg. Improvements to this game are piecemeal and it is beset with longstanding problems. I'm delighted to see, for instance, the changes to XP requirements but they're not enough. The game rewards neither skill nor hard work. A handful of classes is still at a huge advantage in PvE and PvP, partying is still inexpedient, XPBs are still necessary to progress at a tolerable rate, skills are still too expensive, gold inflation continues, AP buyers are still at a major advantage, item drop and upgrade success rates are still appalling, graphics are dated, the interface and controls are still clumsy, gameplay is still tedious, repetitive and bug-ridden and there is still no engaging storyline to speak of.

No server merge and no amount of advertising will fix these root problems.