WAR closes 42 servers

Eyeball-Dragonmaw · Post by **Eyeball-Dragonmaw** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 9:25 am

Finally..........at least now maybe they can focus on keeping the 20 servers left populated which I think should be merged into 15 if they want to keep the people who are left, and make all the remaining servers high population. They should of done this months ago instead of forcing everyone to play on low populated servers who than eventually quit the game. Now instead of 800k players spread out on 100 servers they have 200k on 20 or thereabouts. I can't wait to start running census on the remaining servers 24/7 once my new computer shows up so we can really tell how many people are really left.

I think this server merger is coming too late to save this game. I still see people quitting left and right, and I play on the most populated server. People are tired of the keep and battle objective taking which for the most part means nothing if you lose it. Yes you need to do it to eventually seige a city, but for the most part its one faction taking uncontested keeps/bo's in the elf area while the other faction is taking them in dwarf, and than both switch. Both sides avoid the fights for the most part because they know its faster and easier to gain renown swapping zones every 30 mins instead of fighting over a keep for 3 hours which benefits nothing.

I know on my old low populated server they spent 9 hours taking keeps/bo's and locking zones to fail at the fortress keep. What did it get them? Nothing, because once they fail all their work is erased, and to do it again would mean another 9 hours of work.

I still like the game, but I would like to see some changes. I think instead of keeps why not have guild bases/towns to take. People have more pride, and willing to defend something that is theirs than slapping a guild banner on a keep.

I remember in SWG's you would be pissed if your base got destroyed. You lost all your own merchants, your guild hangout, trainers, and alot of money to have to rebuild it. I remember you could pay to get better guards, turrets, and stuff which always made it more fun.

Even in DAOC the keeps were more exciting to take. Someone stealing the relic meant your faction lost the permanent buff from the relic which was like +str or +crit or something which was huge when you lost it. There was something about trying to track the person down through several zones to prevent them from putting the relic in their keep.

The game still has potential, but it will only be a niche game now. It will never have numbers like WoW, and I doubt its subscriber numbers will increase ever again. I think they will hit a certain number, and it will just stay steady from there until the next newest/greatest MMO comes out. I think people will only leave WoW once Blizzard comes out with their next MMO which most likely will be World of Starcraft or World of Diablo or something. An interesting thing I heard which sort of makes sense is that World of Warcraft was originally modeled after Warhammer Lore but Games Workshop didn't like it, and so they just made it their own instead. It seems it paid off for them, and just think how much money GW lost.

On Tuesday, March 10, we will be performing a final transfer of characters from several of the servers that have been, in the past, a source server (ie. we have offered transfers off of). Please read on for all the details, including a list of affected servers.

Characters on the source servers listed below will all be consolidated onto the corresponding destination server. All source servers will eventually be closed.

Tower of Doom
Heldenhammer
Thorgrim
Sea of Malice
Chaos Wastes
Anlec
Middenheim
Mordheim
Wasteland
Averheim
Be'lakor
Rakarth
Lucan
Lustria
Marius
Drifting Castle
Grimnir
Thorgrim
Bretonnia
Tor Achere
Tower of Doom
Ungrim
Azazel
Drakwald
Avelorn
Skavenblight
Tor Elyr
White Tower
Eerie Downs
Hochland
Wolfenburg
Wurtbad
Bechafen
Kragg
Reikland
Kislev
Marienburg
Red Eye Mountain
Sea of Claws
Heldenhammer
Saphery
Sylvania
Ulthuan

Alanthus · Post by **Alanthus** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 3:52 pm

Unless I'm missing something this is just confirmation of what they have been doing for quite some time, all those servers are already tagged and when you log on you get a message that the server is low population and you should roll somewhere else. I'm having fun playing though unfortunately due to wrinkles with the transfers we ended up having to play Order instead of Destro and level up new toons so it's gonna be a while before I can mess with the end game, not a bad thing when you consider how rare an MMOwith an actual working end game that doesn't require total social seclusion is onlya a year or two after release

Dromic · Post by **Dromic** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 7:26 pm

Last I checked they are lowering WAR to 17 servers. This will be a great move since dead servers push people away from a MMO.

Look at CoH/V they have 8 or 9 servers and only 2 have fair population and other 6 can be merged into 1. They have not done that and is hurting them. And with Champs online almost here fear CoH/V will not last much longer.
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Alanthus · Post by **Alanthus** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 7:59 pm

Only problem is days like this when they release new careers and 3 of my 4 servers are queued...

Dromic · Post by **Dromic** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 10:49 pm

Yes you know could seen a 2 to 5 minute queue and so glad to see that.

It means you will have lots of people to do parties with and Scenarios queue up fast. Heck T1 and T2 can now get a SC every 2 to 4 minutes. Before they closed the dead servers it was 15 to 45 minutes for T1 and T2 SC. Even before the slayer/choppa patch noticed better times even for T4.
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Post by **Rollie** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 3:08 pm

Finally got around to putting in a way for those servers to no longer appear in the drop box on the census page.

Alanthus · Post by **Alanthus** » Sun Apr 19, 2009 8:28 pm

nice