eu-server posts

Aion announces new North American server to be available soon [Updated]

by Seraphina Brennan Sep 25th 2009 at 5:00PM

Filed under: Fantasy, Aion, Business models, Culture, MMO industry, News items

Lani Blazier, associate producer on NCsoft's Aion, has announced today via Twitter that the game will be opening its arms to a new North American server very shortly.

This announcement most likely comes to many cheers from the community, as server queues have continued all this week on many of the NA servers. While we announced earlier that private shop changes will be coming to the game in order to reduce AFK spot holders, the new server will be one of the best ways to help spread out the population.

The new server is currently unnamed and the time frame is still not set in stone, but Lani has assured everyone that the server will be available sometime this weekend. This post will be updated as more information becomes available.

A new European server will follow as well, but as of this posting, the time frame for that server is still up in the air.

Update: Fregion [West] has been added to the server list and is now taking players. An East Coast American server and the new European server are also on their way.

Tags: aion, aion-ayase, aion-liv, aion-the-tower-of-eternity, eu-server, european-server, lani-blazier, na-server, ncsoft, north-american-server, private-shop, private-store, twitter

PlanetSide merges last two servers into one

by Seraphina Brennan Jul 27th 2009 at 4:00PM

Filed under: Sci-fi, PlanetSide, Culture, Game mechanics, MMO industry, PvP, News items, MMOFPS

In an e-mail that went out to the community earlier today, the PlanetSide team has announced that the game's final two servers will be combined into one to preserve the balance of fighting between their three armies. The merge will be conducted on August 25th, so this is ample warning of the things to come.

Now, normally people would be complaining and unhappy over hearing the words "server" and "merge" being put into the same sentence, but that's not the sentiment over at the PlanetSide community. This move has put the veteran players into a state of happiness in their anticipation of the merge. Old outfits are preparing for a resurgence as former players are returning to the game once more.

Tags: eu-server, frag, gemini, merge, ping, planetside, population, server-merge, soe, sony-online-entertainment, werner

The Daily Grind: Have you re-rolled on Darkfall's NA server?

by Seraphina Brennan Jul 15th 2009 at 8:00AM

Filed under: Fantasy, Darkfall, Culture, Expansions, Launches, PvP, Opinion, The Daily Grind

Fifty bucks isn't chump change in this economy, but it's what Aventurine is asking as the price of admission to their new North American Darkfall server. If you want in you need to purchase a brand new account, and that brand new account is the price of a brand new game.

But, you get to play in a server that's starting from scratch. Everyone is once again on the same level, the cities were open for capture (briefly, then they all got taken,) and the mystery of the world has been re-opened. Aventurine has thrown down many fixes since the original launch, leading some people to call the EU server the "paid beta" while the NA server is the "true launch."

What we want to know is what are your feelings, Massively readers? If you play Darkfall, have you gone over to the new server? Why or why not? Are you waiting for the transfer after three months? Even if you don't play, would you switch servers if the new server came with a 50 dollar price tag? Or would you jump onto Darkfall just to be in the new NA server?

Comment away!

Tags: aventurine, darkfall, darkfall-online, eu-server, na-server, na1, new-server, north-american-server, server-transfer, the-daily-grind