Funcom have recently revealed the names, locations, and types (PVP, PVE or RP-PVP) for Age of Conan servers.
All the servers are available for the Early access 17th May players. Find the list here.
I counted about 30 odd servers, quite a lot for a new game, most starting out with maybe 10, or 20, then making more available as more players start coming. I suspect that they will easily fill up the majority of servers, in no time, but there could be a few empty-ish ones.
Quote from Funcom:
“Funcom has been working very hard towards setting up gaming server capacity to launch this game comfortably for all the people who want to play Age of Conan.”
Basically Funcom believe they will have enough space for all players and wanted to make sure that there were no unhappy players. Not being sure how big each server is, it’s quite difficult to estimate what will happen
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In other news, Funcom a few days ago, revealed that the Early Access Programme was full of players and any preorder customers who didn’t pay the £5 in time were, well to put it bluntly, screwed. Funcom’s official word can be found here.
Here are a few things Tarib Senior Community Manager said:
“We measured how much capacity we thought we would need for this program and registrations have been on pace for this capacity – until two days ago. On Monday the registrations spiked and on Tuesday they increased even more. Early on Wednesday the capacity limit was reached and automatically shut off. The entire program is now mostly sold out globally, with some local variation. We had no way of anticipating the spike we saw at the end.”
“Now we have few choices. We could shut down the Closed Beta and reformat those servers to set them up for Early Access instead, but the fact is that the Closed Beta is supplying extremely valuable information that we would not want to miss. Quality is always our first goal and we would not want to compromise that but rather focus on the experience for all of you at launch.
Our best course of action is to move as quickly as we can to finalize the adjustments of the full range of launch servers, and to concentrate on being completely prepared for launch. It is only a matter of days even for those who are not in the Early Access programme to set foot in Hyboria.”
It looks like there isn’t a chance any people who missed the Early Access Programme will get another chance, so unlucky if that’s you, At least you won’t have to wait too long to play.
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