Card album are one thing, but characters names / slots are too... I might sound selfish but as someone with currently 19/8/8 characters, losing 16 of them from merge would hurt a lot.
I'm not against the idea of a merge (depending on how GF decides to handle it), but I don't think it would be a viable solution anyway.
There are new/returning players, but in the end more and more people are leaving the game.
A merge "could" provide a feeling of improvement, but that would be temporary at best. In the end the player base would inevitably decrease, and then what ? soon enough there're won't be anymore server to merge with.
On the other hand, if improvements are made in order to make the game more attractive, having the possibility to choose from several servers with very different atmospheres could be a positive point.
