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ArcheAge Servers Brought Down Today To Prep For This Week's Server Merge | MMORPG.com

ArcheAge is "evolving" its servers this week, and the servers today are being brought down to start prepping for this change. As such, the Auction House will be locked out until after the merge this week.

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Viper482

The Amazon River runs for thousand of miles. At some point it runs through areas of the rainforest that are almost untouched and have been barely explored. Because of the porous limestone in these areas, the river water leaks through the stone and travels deep into the earth, and forms underground pools almost a mile below the surface. Over thousands of years small blind transparent fish have lived and evolved in these pools. These fish have never seen the sun or surface and have never been seen by the human eye.....these fish care more about this than I do.

alkarionlog

server merge now is evolution is so much dishonesty in one post im lost


also every time they merge servers people quit after then they merge again later, with make more peopl to quit, then they do a fresh start server who call dumb people back.

serious this cicle is annoying and get worse every time

Albatroes

Did anyone else develop the biggest smile ever after just reading "ArcheAge Servers Brought Down Today..."?

TiamatRoar

Server merges are already scummy in and of themselves because the purpose is usually to keep players getting into money fights with each other (R2games admitted as such in their business presentation to investors)

Its especially absolutely obscene in a game where housing is limited by the server space.  Im amazed players are willing to put up with a game that will throw away their houses on a whim and then crush them together with an entire other population that will now compete with them for that already limited amount of space.

Panther2103

TiamatRoar said:

Server merges are already scummy in and of themselves because the purpose is usually to keep players getting into money fights with each other (R2games admitted as such in their business presentation to investors)

Its especially absolutely obscene in a game where housing is limited by the server space.  Im amazed players are willing to put up with a game that will throw away their houses on a whim and then crush them together with an entire other population that will now compete with them for that already limited amount of space.

R2games presentation was talking about rolling servers. They open hundreds and hundreds of servers to entice the whales to jump from server to server to keep money flow trying to be #1, it's super common on Chinese games for some reason. 

This Archeage server merge is just them not having enough people and trying to string along the small community over and over any time they change something and open a new server it eventually just merges. The R2games servers all stay open so you will see a list of like 300+ servers on all of their games. 

Renoaku

This game needs a real publisher, great games, but full of greed, and Pay 2 Win / Publishers.

Every time people spend months / hours getting housing during land-grabs it's all removed.

And always server merges because of population drops.

They never needed Arche Age unchained, or evolution servers, they just needed to fix the game and issues that were already there.

RandomCasualty

Every time I come back to try again I get to guess what server I'll be on and if I have to change my name. It's a game unto itself!

Raagnarz

Viper482 said:

The Amazon River runs for thousand of miles. At some point it runs through areas of the rainforest that are almost untouched and have been barely explored. Because of the porous limestone in these areas, the river water leaks through the stone and travels deep into the earth, and forms underground pools almost a mile below the surface. Over thousands of years small blind transparent fish have lived and evolved in these pools. These fish have never seen the sun or surface and have never been seen by the human eye.....these fish care more about this than I do.

I had no intention of posting here today, but this was just too awesome not to acknowledge.

Areteo

I quit after the first time they merged me. I'd worked very hard to get the properties I wanted, wasn't ever going through that again.


The day Archeage goes bankrupt and shuts down, I shall dance in celebration.

Wizardry

There is a thread asking "Are developers out of touch?"

Geesh I feel like the entire gaming world has gone full mental.

It feels like the ENTIRE industry is just copying trends over and over,VERY little creativity.
I think we just have to accept that KR devs have their own audience and think differently when comes to design ideas.

Renoaku

Areteo said:

I quit after the first time they merged me. I'd worked very hard to get the properties I wanted, wasn't ever going through that again.





The day Archeage goes bankrupt and shuts down, I shall dance in celebration.

Same, there was no point in doing a merge it was basically all bad management.

$400 USD costume box's that didn't disclose odds (Worst was enchantment saving gems).

And lets not forget how a lot of us long time whales spent money to obtain massive property I had like 6 accounts on there and then the merge ruined it, plus over night they de-valued archem prices just cuz.

And even worse the hero system allowing dictatorships on factions may not have been a problem on all servers but in my eyes that killed the game when your hero was a jerk.

Xatsh

Archeage is a game that has been in a constant downward trend since it launch... literally every major patch has made the game worse in some way.

Hiram removed almost everything that made archeage something worth playing and devolved it into almost a D tier indy quality f2p themepark game.....

Broken instances, added a mage class that litteraly can 2-3 shot an entire raid through walls reguardless of build setup and never nerfed it....... seriously wtf, removed guild focus, large parts of endgame removed, removed all the northern housing in auroria zones, replaced a functional castle system with whatever that piece of garbage they have now is. added dozens of mandatory daily quest, removed the economy, removed half the arenas, made ALL crafting worthless, removed open world pvp events, destroyed the trade system... honestly I swear they sat around a table and brainstormed how to completely kill off the game and implemented it. Only positive thing I can think of is the ancestral abilities they added were good.

p2w killed the original game, the massive changes in the hiram era doomed the modern version.

At this point AA is a lost cause. Game development needs to be shutdown and they need to pull everyone into the AA2 project and learn from their major screw ups they made with AA1 and actually attempt to make a solid game that remains that way.

Akulas

So it means the community goes lame for a week then slowly calms down and then dead quite and they have a sale and then gets shut down.

alkarionlog

Xatsh said:

Archeage is a game that has been in a constant downward trend since it launch... literally every major patch has made the game worse in some way.

Hiram removed almost everything that made archeage something worth playing and devolved it into almost a D tier indy quality f2p themepark game.....

Broken instances, added a mage class that litteraly can 2-3 shot an entire raid through walls reguardless of build setup and never nerfed it....... seriously wtf, removed guild focus, large parts of endgame removed, removed all the northern housing in auroria zones, replaced a functional castle system with whatever that piece of garbage they have now is. added dozens of mandatory daily quest, removed the economy, removed half the arenas, made ALL crafting worthless, removed open world pvp events, destroyed the trade system... honestly I swear they sat around a table and brainstormed how to completely kill off the game and implemented it. Only positive thing I can think of is the ancestral abilities they added were good.

p2w killed the original game, the massive changes in the hiram era doomed the modern version.

At this point AA is a lost cause. Game development needs to be shutdown and they need to pull everyone into the AA2 project and learn from their major screw ups they made with AA1 and actually attempt to make a solid game that remains that way.

there is only one thing really, I woiuld fire everyone working there and hire new people, because certainly the ones working don't know what the hell they are doing

grimal

No surprise here.  What could have been a decent game, now turned to junk is forced to merge.