Warhammer Server Chaos

Posted by Stropp on September 18, 2008

Well, the last couple of days in Warhammer Online have been a bit dramatic.

Casualties Destruction guild has had a bit of a turbulent time. It turned out that our initial choice of server was also going to be inhabited by the Goons.

The Goons, for those of you who don’t know, are a guild that rose to prominence on Eve Online and has the declared aim of making life so bad for other players that they quit the game. To a Goon, that’s PvP. To everyone else that’s griefing.

The members of Casualties felt, that even if they are on the same side, we didn’t want to be associated, or even close, to them. So we decided to set up on another server, Volkmar.

Due to some pretty poor planning on Mythic’s part, Volkmar and three other servers, turned out to be completely packed minutes into the Standard Edition head-start. At this point the guild officers started to discuss what could be done. That decision was made for us later when Mythic announced to the world that the four packed servers were at capacity and that players should not create any more characters on them.

Since that meant that the folks in CoW that were going to start at normal release would be discouraged from rolling on Volkmar, the officers decided to bite the bullet and reroll the guild on yet another server. That was done yesterday. So we are now on Thorgrim.

Sure. There’s been a bit of grumbling, after all people have invested a few hours into their characters already, but it’s a generally supported decision across the Destro CoWs. And if something like this needs to happen, it’s best to make the cut early.

However… now Mythic has announced that they are cloning the four overcrowded servers. This means that every player and every guild is duplicated on a new server. This allows guilds and players to choose to stay on their old server or just start playing on the new one. It’s a seamless process and the players shouldn’t notice any difference.

It’s actually quite an elegant solution that is much better than offering character transfers since those can get messy quickly.

The pity of the matter is that this had to happen at all. Personally, I reckon the guild officers made the correct decision based on the info they had.

In this case, Mythic didn’t really provide the info in a timely enough manner to assist players and guilds to make the best decision. It’s an unusual case since Mythic has generally been pretty good with the timeliness of their news updates.

Oh, and the Order side of CoW. No drama there at all to speak of. I still need to get my order alts in. I’ll do that now I think.

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