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The folks over at eurogamers managed to hold down Age of Conan Game Director Craig Morrison long enough for an interview. The interview goes into the state of the game, its challenges, upcoming changes, and the general health of their AOC community in general.You can read the original article here or...
Mark Jacobs, VP over at Mythic in charge of the Warhammer Team confirmed that there would indeed be layoffs in the near future but assures us that the game will go on and development will continue. You can read the post in his consolidated Layoff rumor thread over at the official Warhammer Online forums but for ease of reference I have copied it...
Mythic recently released a Herald Article showing "proof" that balance between the opposing factions was now basically "fixed". The first thing that sticks out from their post is that they bucket all servers together by US and Monolith servers, so basically two buckets. At that level things do look relatively balanced, but the concern has always been that specific servers are way out of balance.This rather positive post is misleading because the...
Now that Age of Conan’s Bloodspire and Hyperborea servers were successfully merged, it’s time to get down to the rest of the merges! Here’s the scoop from Funcom:
Firstly, we present you the list of the planned servers to be merged (see below). We will proceed with merging next week and the specific date and time as well as the expected downtime will be announced soon too. As a general information we can already say that the plan is to merge all EU...
Life Day has come and gone yet again in the online world of Star Wars Galaxies. Well almost gone that is, the event will be done this Monday (January 12th, 2009). Official text from the SOE post below:
"Life Day ends on Monday, January 12, 2009, so be sure to get your last minute gift stomping and tree decorating done! The Rebel and Imperial organizers will be leaving the cities, so don't miss your chance to get that gift you've had your eye on....
The dev team posted their latest news regarding sieges in Warhammer Online and the known lag problems when participating in this type of gameplay. The news is that they have implemented a solution for the lag.... I like to call it simply "Begone wimp!" Basically as the population in these besieged cities becomes higher the game begins to forcibly teleport players away from the area based on their level. Basically if you aren't level 40 then you will be...
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...
