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City of Heroes: May 10 - Global Server Access Is Coming
Drew
Member Posts: 434
When we announced that Global Server Access would be rolled out by the end of the Summer, we certainly hoped to make it available earlier so we could unite all of our North American and European servers and allow for a lot more interaction amongst our players.
Well this is it! Between 4:00 a.m. Pacific Time (7:00 a.m. Eastern Time / 12:00 p.m. British Time / 13:00 Central European Time) and 4:00 p.m. Pacific Time (7:00 p.m. Eastern Time / 12:00 a.m. British Time / 1:00 Central European Time), Tuesday, May 10th, 2011 is when we leap across entire oceans and continents (figuratively!) so you, our community, can be one big family with 15 live servers to choose from and that many more character slots you can fill with characters you could only dream of conceptualizing on Mids, for lack of space!
Read more at the official City of Heroes website.
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Continental server merger? At least they are trying to be creative with the labeling.
No perviously the EU players could only access the EU servers and the US the US, now everybody gets access to everybody.
So no merger just greater access to a larger numbers of servers for everybody (although the logical assumption is that eventually they'll drop a few servers later on as people begin to bunch up on a select few servers)
Nothing really big to players like me who solo. All they did was add more people to the server for me to ignore. No offense other people. I just don't like teaming.
Not quite, this isn't SOE and this isn't a server merger.
All that is happening is that the European Servers are now going to be listed with the North American ones, when previously it was two separate lists (and launchers). The upside is that people can now move characters between those servers and gain additional character slots (8 or 10 per server, I forget...)
Hmm, if I recall correctly, you had to either purchase an EU or USA account to play on their respective servers? I take it this barrier has been removed, so my EU account can now play on the US servers? If so, I might return.
Correct, you can play on whichever server you want when it's applied, no matter if your account is EU or US.
Nods, its a removal of the filter to seeing NA/EU servers, not a merge. Ie more servers to choose from not less.
Thanks. This is a very good change, always hated seperating EU from US when it comes to MMO's.
Nope, CoH has always had 12 NA servers and 3 EU servers, so there will still be 15 servers total.