So, with the transfers apparently complete, Mythic has closed off 26 of the 56 servers to new players.  These servers are low/low and are obviously not going to grow or become active.

And yet, I have not seen one official word from Mythic saying these servers are now effectively shut down.

Furthermore, nobody on the gaming websites seems to be noting it.

I thought it was noteworthy if a game closes half its servers within 3 months. 

Someone should notify a gamespy "reporter" or something.

Jacobs is pretty up front about things and if there closeing down servers he will say something or should.

Its cause the servers arent shut down, simply click more and you can see and access them.

However, they are put on the back burner. Everyone on those servers has/had their chance to leave, and are staying out of choice. Thats why they arent shut down I guess, mythic is giving them the option.

Originally posted by Pyrostasis

Its cause the servers arent shut down, simply click more and you can see and access them.

However, they are put on the back burner. Everyone on those servers has/had their chance to leave, and are staying out of choice. Thats why they arent shut down I guess, mythic is giving them the option.

But new players cannot join them.  I've also heard that people have gone back to those servers just to check it out and were the only single person on the server.

These 26 servers are dead.  They just haven't pulled the plug.

They are not "on the back burner".  If you try to create a character on them, you are unable to.

Originally posted by holdenhamlet

Originally posted by Pyrostasis

Its cause the servers arent shut down, simply click more and you can see and access them.

However, they are put on the back burner. Everyone on those servers has/had their chance to leave, and are staying out of choice. Thats why they arent shut down I guess, mythic is giving them the option.

 

But new players cannot join them.  I've also heard that people have gone back to those servers just to check it out and were the only single person on the server.

These 26 servers are dead.  They just haven't pulled the plug.

Are you sure you cant create a toon?

I was told otherwise.

Yes, I am sure.  The option is greyed out when you're on those 26 servers.  I just tried today on all of them, as research for a discussion on another message board.

You cannot make new characters on them.  They are shut down.

Weird, I just created characters on 5 of these supposibly locked servers (stopped at 5 since I doubt if I could on 5, I could not on the others). You do get a message stating that they are a low/low pop server that mythic is suggesting that you transfer off of but they are not preventing new people from creating characters on them.

Originally posted by holdenhamlet

Yes, I am sure.  The option is greyed out when you're on those 26 servers.  I just tried today on all of them, as research for a discussion on another message board.

 

You cannot make new characters on them.  They are shut down.

When they are shut down Im sure it will make the news. Your saying that not being able to make new characters = shut down, but that isnt the case. If i can log onto a pre-existing toon and level, how is the server shut down?

Nobody in their right mind is playing on them.  Yes, you can go onto them, but when you're the only person on the entire server logged in, it doesn't really make sense to play on it.

If theyr'e not dead, they're in a coma.  In any case, it's pretty significant if you ask me.

And to the guy above you, no, you can't make characters on the servers.  Just to be specific, try to create a character on Eerie Downs.

Hint: Click on the "more" button to see all of the shut down servers mixed in with some active servers.

Yea, pretty obvious step if you ask me.

I think it's safe to say that they did overestimate their player base, so what? They will, sooner or later, shut down these servers and that does not change a thing, the game has more than enough players to stay alive, just not enough to be the next MMO saviour like so many said during the development period...

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LOL, 56 servers for a theme park game which is no better than WoW.

 Did you miss reading the server transfer letter? Everything stated is right there in that letter. Any other "new" news about it will be posted. Mark never misses the chance to let his sidekicks know the deal-e-yo. And you can make characters on those servers, I just did. And you are not the only one on the server. I joined in on a t1 PQ after hitting level 6 with around 5 others. Somehow the fact that you can't read and that you have troubles making a character is pretty sad. Maybe you should just take a break from gaming, things seem to be getting to hard for you aparently. 

Originally posted by Samuraisword

LOL, 56 servers for a theme park game which is no better than WoW.

Wow, since when are theme parks bad? Last time I visited Six Flags I enjoyed myself. So are you trying to say I would enjoy WAR? I swear the internet has turned people into idiots. It started with fanboy and now theme park MMO? So when did we start using words that reflect good things to diss on someone or something? I mean it doesn't even sound right. What next, people going around saying OMG this game is such a cheesecake. Or how about, OMG your such a poptart. Or better yet, OMG this game is so bad and anyone who follows it is such a ferrari. Yeah, makes no sense. Im done here, work on dissing please. 

56 is just one region. There's over a hundred servers in total.

Wow, since when are theme parks bad? Last time I visited Six Flags I enjoyed myself. So are you trying to say I would enjoy WAR? I swear the internet has turned people into idiots. It started with fanboy and now theme park MMO? So when did we start using words that reflect good things to diss on someone or something? I mean it doesn't even sound right. What next, people going around saying OMG this game is such a cheesecake. Or how about, OMG your such a poptart. Or better yet, OMG this game is so bad and anyone who follows it is such a ferrari. Yeah, makes no sense. Im done here, work on dissing please. 

careful, mackdawg19, u might start a trend.  dont be such a cheesecake 

Originally posted by mackdawg19

 Did you miss reading the server transfer letter? Everything stated is right there in that letter. Any other "new" news about it will be posted. Mark never misses the chance to let his sidekicks know the deal-e-yo. And you can make characters on those servers, I just did. And you are not the only one on the server. I joined in on a t1 PQ after hitting level 6 with around 5 others. Somehow the fact that you can't read and that you have troubles making a character is pretty sad. Maybe you should just take a break from gaming, things seem to be getting to hard for you aparently. 

Maybe Mark should come and have a look at the state of the EU servers, as WAR in the EU is still WAR and the state of the servers here is far from good!

Originally posted by mackdawg19

Originally posted by Samuraisword

LOL, 56 servers for a theme park game which is no better than WoW.

 

Wow, since when are theme parks bad? Last time I visited Six Flags I enjoyed myself. So are you trying to say I would enjoy WAR?

You forget a lot of people in the MMO community have a superiority complex. They like to dictate to us that Carebear or Theme Park gameplay is A BAD THING and anything that is Sandbox and Risk Vs. Reward is A GOOD THING. Their pretentiousness knows no bounds.

Somewhere along the line they forgot that people have different tastes.

Poptarts. The lot of them.

They HAD to open those servers at game launch, but now they don't need them anymore...bigdeal...

Originally posted by Ogrelin

They HAD to open those servers at game launch, but now they don't need them anymore...bigdeal...

No they didn't. They opened the servers because they thought WAR would be more popular and wanted to be ready for the storm of people joining their game.

And for over 3 weeks it looked as if they had done the right thing. At least in EU, there were many queues and many mid/mid servers. The crucial point here is "3 weeks", because after that population dropped. Now I won't pull numbers out of my behind or fix myself on any guesswork.

But even the most rabid fanboy would agree that population dropped, maybe not devastatingly fast, but it dropped significantly, every source you look at seconds this, from your experience on the servers to biased online gametime counters.

Now is this a bad thing? - Simple answer. No. Other games, my favorite example is LotRO, flourish with a much lower but dedicated fanbase. Remember, EQ2 e.g. has about 5 european servers total, LotRO has 8...

So WAR can only be a disappointment for people who expected it to "be the WoW killer", out of hatred towards WoW, out of fanboyism, I don't know. But for people who enjoy the current state of WAR, it has more than enough players to survive and be a decent long-laster...

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Originally posted by Zayne3145

Originally posted by mackdawg19

Originally posted by Samuraisword

LOL, 56 servers for a theme park game which is no better than WoW.

 

Wow, since when are theme parks bad? Last time I visited Six Flags I enjoyed myself. So are you trying to say I would enjoy WAR?

You forget a lot of people in the MMO community have a superiority complex. They like to dictate to us that Carebear or Theme Park gameplay is A BAD THING and anything that is Sandbox and Risk Vs. Reward is A GOOD THING. Their pretentiousness knows no bounds.

Somewhere along the line they forgot that people have different tastes.

Poptarts. The lot of them.

LOL

It does seem that some want everyone else to be actors in their own personal MMO! Actors that follow a script of how they alone 'know' a MMO should be played. Deviate from that and you're 'playing it wrong'. :D