The quality is so far (4 weeks) perfectly and I can recommend these shoes at the current time without limitation.
Update 1/13/2014:
The shoes I wear nearly every day, and the wear and tear on the sole are very low, so far to no splice solved. Impregnated keep the Merrell even with the bad weather reasonably the wetness away and if the shoes from inside some games to get wet, they dry very quickly.
I now feel that I have a lot more problems with "normal" shoes. So I get this often too narrow in front and by the blowing up (higher heel) after some time I get pain in the ankle.
Long Walk with the Merrell gives me no problem, however, no matter what surface.