I won't mind if moderator merge topics into one as both topics are identical, it's just forum was very slow that day and it was easier to create new topic than to use search button, wait minute and receive error message couple of times.
No worries, topic has been locked.

Only admins can merge threads, and it's only done for technical reasons such as an accidentally-split post. Merging similar threads together just makes a big mess; if too many topics about the same thing are posted, the extras should just be locked or deleted.