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Mythic Shutting Down 63 Warhammer Servers

Posted by Soulskill on from the consolidation-of-quality dept.

Gamasutra reports that Mythic Entertainment is consolidating a number of their Warhammer Online servers to keep population levels within an acceptable range. 43 servers are set to close in North America and Oceania, and 20 more in Europe. Mythic posted details of the character transfers at the game's website. CEO Mark Jacobs also made a "State of the Game" post, highlighting the live expansion that's currently underway, as well as the changes and updates they have planned for the near future.

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  1. No, Warhammer Online isn't dying. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    At launch, they had *far* too many servers, they had wayyyy more servers than WoW had at launch.

    Their launch went extremely smoothly, but the game population was spread so thin that people were having a hard time finding other people.

    They should have done this 2 weeks after launch, not 6 months.

    That said, this isn't indicative of Warhammer's impending demise, nor of a lack of players, they really did just have way too many servers and should have fixed the problem months ago.

    Oh well, I'm still having fun with the game :D

    (also, anyone thinking this was a WoW killer was delusional, it was never intended to be such, it's a very PvP centric game and attracts a similar, but different crowd)