WARHAMMER ONLINE: It looks like another round of server merges may be incoming for WARHAMMER ONLINE. (source: IncGamers)
Does this reduction signal that the player base has continued to drop from the last EA report of 300k subscribers - or are Mythic simply paying close attention to player needs and doing their best to provide busy, warfare-filled servers?
Darren at The Common Sense Gamer wonders if this is still an ongoing correction of pre-release over-hype or a sign that things aren’t well in WARville. I, for one, hope WAR survives. Underneath the annoying technical problems that caused me to quit after a month or so - the heart of a fine MMO lurks. Lately, I’ve been missing WAR - but I won’t return until I have a smokin’ new PC.
“Inc quote: ‘…we are expecting to resolve our long term population issues on our lower population servers and see high populations regularly as part and parcel of server merges that are currently in discussion.’
Mythic hit the headlines in March when it closed down over 60 servers, 40 in the US and and additional 20 here in Europe. Players on those servers were forced to migrate to a selection of other existing ones.”