The Age of Conan MMO server mergers have Begun!! To accomplish this the US servers will be down starting around 7:00 a.m. EST on January 7th (or 12 p.m. GMT) for about six hours so that the Bloodspire and Hyperborea servers can be merged. If past server related patches are any indication, 6 hours may be too short of an estimate for such a task as this merger though.

While this was Originally planned for early December 2008, bugs with the migration/merging process were found that forced Funcom to delay the mergers.  This merger is being hyped as a good thing in order to focus player populations but is this more a chiming of the bell of doom for Age of Conan?  Server merges are normally signs of a game in decline or so the popular opinion goes for server merges.

For additional details on how the server merges will take place and any rules relating to it check out the official FAQ on the topic over at the Age of Conan forums here .  If you play or have any characters on that server it is in your obvious best interests to read up on the matter and see how this will impact you and your characters on these servers.

We hope that all goes well.... Good Luck to all of the affected players out there.