Age of Conan was a game that came onto the scene with much anticipation from gamers and was thought to be the first true shot of a World of Warcraft killer. Unfortunately for fans of the game and Age of Conan itself, it launched with some bugs and a severe lack of endgame content, which led many players to abandon the title. Even still the game has drudged on and players have continued to hack and slash their way through the title, but it looks like there has not been enough interest to sustain all the servers and many are scheduling to be shutdown.
Funcom has planned to have the servers merge to help keep the remaining players they have playing the game. They revealed they will be cutting 49 servers to just 18 servers in total.
In North American and Oceanic regions Funcom will merge 24 servers into 6 servers. There will be only one PvP server and one PvE server to remain, with each to combine the populations of six or seven existing servers.
While in Europe, Funcom will let 12 servers remain due to the four languages. English language Euro servers are being cut from 13 to 4 only.
An announcement of server closures is never good for an MMORPG. Just hope that this is an effort to streamline and not an effort to shut the game down slowly, especially with the expansion for the game looming in the distance.
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This is quite disappointing to hear. A lot of gamers were expecting that AoC would be the next WoW killer, but this is way beyond reality. I just hope that Funcom will do something to attract new gamers as well as giving current players to stay loyal to AoC.
Although it’s no WoW-killer, Age of Conan is a fantastic MMORPG. For the record, no, it is not half dead. They over-expanded their servers at launch in anticipation of a deluge of subscribers. This never happened, leaving a few crowded servers, and several desolate ones.
What they did was consolidate the servers to save themselves some resources, while increasing the population on other servers. I play on Set server, and I welcome the added population. It’s much easier to get raids going now, and PUGs.
Again, not dead, not dying, simply restructured. Honestly, they made a huge mistake with the amount of servers they had in place at launch, and now they are correcting it.
In my opinion, this game came out 8 months too soon. But I love it anyway. This is my favorite MMORPG since City of Heroes/Villains.
the first 20 lvls of AOC are the BEST RPG content EVER, weather played solo or in guilds. and thats a fact.
and yes, the game came out too early and clearly unfinished. i don’t know who’s bright idea was it, but he/she/it is fired…
now, if FC are committing to create new content, polishing the PVP system and making new gear then thats enough for me to keep playing.
I played age of conan a day ago, its changed alot since launch but is still half-dead.
We need to get people back in the game!