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...

Glen Swan from Funcom released the details on the upcoming server merges that are planned for December.  While heralded by some as a great move, others see it as a sign of impedning doom for the Hyborean themed MMO.  Below is part 1 of the server merge details with a followup post from Glen in the next day or two.  

"As announced a few weeks ago, we will merge the Age of Conan servers before the Christmas Holidays. Today we want to give you some detailed information...

The new Game Director for Age of Conan did a bit of posting on the official forums and had some interesting information to share, not the least of which was the fact that server merges are coming.  Here is what was said:

"Today I wanted to take the opportunity to go over some of the updates, changes and developments you will see in the game over the coming weeks and months. Hopefully this will give you a little insight into what order things are being addressed in and what...