Creole Ned
01-09-2009, 07:07 PM
This post (http://forums.ageofconan.com/showthread.php?t=179531) on the official forum details the list of servers that are being merged and I have to say I'm actually surprised at how many servers are getting squashed into others.
By my count, there are 24 total servers listed under the "US Servers" heading. After the merges there will be six. My crazy math skills tell me that 75% of the servers are going bye-bye. :o Ouch. They do promise to open one new server for the US and EU for people who want to stake a claim in virgin territory, but that would still leave the US with only 7 servers.
By comparison, City of Heroes, with a player population of about 120,000 or so has 11 US servers. I don't know if Funcom is trying to condense servers more to make the world population especially dense (to benefit PvP and grouping, for example) but it's a long way down from their heady days of 700,000 accounts (http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/53376). It makes me :( because I've actually toyed with popping in sometime to check the game out again (it's one of the few MMOs that lets you keep the client updated even when you're not subscribed).
Oh well. I'm sure some day another MMO will come along to truly rival WoW*.
* WoW 2
By my count, there are 24 total servers listed under the "US Servers" heading. After the merges there will be six. My crazy math skills tell me that 75% of the servers are going bye-bye. :o Ouch. They do promise to open one new server for the US and EU for people who want to stake a claim in virgin territory, but that would still leave the US with only 7 servers.
By comparison, City of Heroes, with a player population of about 120,000 or so has 11 US servers. I don't know if Funcom is trying to condense servers more to make the world population especially dense (to benefit PvP and grouping, for example) but it's a long way down from their heady days of 700,000 accounts (http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/53376). It makes me :( because I've actually toyed with popping in sometime to check the game out again (it's one of the few MMOs that lets you keep the client updated even when you're not subscribed).
Oh well. I'm sure some day another MMO will come along to truly rival WoW*.
* WoW 2