Servers Coming Down for 2 Days for Merger Process - ArcheAge - MMORPG.com

SBFord · September 2017

Servers Coming Down for 2 Days for Merger Process - ArcheAge - MMORPG.com

ArcheAge News - Starting at 12:00 pm Pacific / 3:00 pm Eastern today, ArcheAge North American servers will be taken down to complete the server merger process called "Evolutions". The plan is that NA servers will be back up on September 9th at approximately 4:00 pm Pacific / 7:00 pm Eastern. EU servers have been down for about an hour and will be brought back up on September 9th sometime between 2:00 and 6:00 pm UTC.

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IceAge · September 2017

Oh! Servers Coming Down ..and I was like "Wow! Well deserved" .

But then for 2 days ...

/sad

toljar · September 2017

When your population leaves because you are a cash grabbing company, who only cares about making a quick buck and not engaging content...

I bet Trion wishes they never put Thunderstruck logs and Aranum in those chest you can buy from the loot store. I have never seen a mass exodus from a game so fast, maybe other than Echo of Soul.

Allerleirauh · September 2017

toljar said:

When your population leaves because you are a cash grabbing company, who only cares about making a quick buck and not engaging content...

I bet Trion wishes they never put Thunderstruck logs and Aranum in those chest you can buy from the loot store. I have never seen a mass exodus from a game so fast, maybe other than Echo of Soul.

Haven't played ArcheAge for awhile, so you seriously cannot get Thunderstruck logs from planting trees anymore? That ends any desire to return.

Kyleran · September 2017

Allerleirauh said:

toljar said:

When your population leaves because you are a cash grabbing company, who only cares about making a quick buck and not engaging content...

I bet Trion wishes they never put Thunderstruck logs and Aranum in those chest you can buy from the loot store. I have never seen a mass exodus from a game so fast, maybe other than Echo of Soul.

Haven't played ArcheAge for awhile, so you seriously cannot get Thunderstruck logs from planting trees anymore? That ends any desire to return.

You should probably wait for an answer from an informed source before taking any decision.

Allerleirauh · September 2017

Kyleran said:

Allerleirauh said:

toljar said:

When your population leaves because you are a cash grabbing company, who only cares about making a quick buck and not engaging content...

I bet Trion wishes they never put Thunderstruck logs and Aranum in those chest you can buy from the loot store. I have never seen a mass exodus from a game so fast, maybe other than Echo of Soul.

Haven't played ArcheAge for awhile, so you seriously cannot get Thunderstruck logs from planting trees anymore? That ends any desire to return.

You should probably wait for an answer from an informed source before taking any decision.

That comment alone is not preventing me from returning, but it would be the final nail in the coffin.

Elderknight · September 2017

Played this until a patch hit and Glyph bugged out, no longer able to run any games from them, but ah wasn't many ppl left playing, played auction house that's about it for the last days i played.

Xthos · September 2017

You can still get TS trees from planting trees....Now on if Trion is greedy with the cash shop? Yes. They have had this package with a upgraded car running forever... I miss sub based games that were not cash shopped.

PurplePoloPlayer · September 2017

Trion continues to be Trion. They are and will forever be on my Do Not Play list.

Renoaku · September 2017

Trion completely destroyed Arche Age, between the massive farms I had I was pulling between 4-10 Thunder Strucks a week...

All Trion has done is taken a great game which I wish I was a manager in to make the game great again and throw it into the trash its sad to see one of the best games with potential go to waste because of Trion, and their Greed, but take it from someone who spent over $1000 in the game over years don't bother with the game, or even BDO for that matter because they are starting to do the same things too besides XingCode issue I hate with it.

Also ESO is the only reputable MMO worth playing at the moment besides some older games like World OF Warcraft, or Guild Wars 2.

Ozmodan · September 2017

I will never forgive Trion for taking a decent game and completely trashing it with RNG crap.

Someone should do a thesis on how to ruin a video game through your cash shop using this game as their focus. I rank Trion up at the top when it comes to worst publishers!

toljar · September 2017

Kyleran said:

Allerleirauh said:

toljar said:

When your population leaves because you are a cash grabbing company, who only cares about making a quick buck and not engaging content...

I bet Trion wishes they never put Thunderstruck logs and Aranum in those chest you can buy from the loot store. I have never seen a mass exodus from a game so fast, maybe other than Echo of Soul.

Haven't played ArcheAge for awhile, so you seriously cannot get Thunderstruck logs from planting trees anymore? That ends any desire to return.

You should probably wait for an answer from an informed source before taking any decision.

As a matter of fact, I'm a pretty informed source. Trion added the ability to get thunderstruck logs and other rare resources from their cash shop. This lead to a huge uprising, well that and other stupid things, and a large player base left. The game has been in decline since...

Talonsin · September 2017

I feel bad for the players who have land and are now losing it. Good luck in the new land rush on the new servers.

Kyleran · September 2017

toljar said:

Kyleran said:

Allerleirauh said:

toljar said:

When your population leaves because you are a cash grabbing company, who only cares about making a quick buck and not engaging content...

I bet Trion wishes they never put Thunderstruck logs and Aranum in those chest you can buy from the loot store. I have never seen a mass exodus from a game so fast, maybe other than Echo of Soul.

Haven't played ArcheAge for awhile, so you seriously cannot get Thunderstruck logs from planting trees anymore? That ends any desire to return.

You should probably wait for an answer from an informed source before taking any decision.

As a matter of fact, I'm a pretty informed source. Trion added the ability to get thunderstruck logs and other rare resources from their cash shop. This lead to a huge uprising, well that and other stupid things, and a large player base left. The game has been in decline since...

Did you state players could still get thunderstruck trees in game? Did you note while 12 servers are merging into 4 there are 8 servers untouched.

Is there a modern MMO out today that hasnt gone into a state of continual player decline for one reason or another.

More importantly, are you currently playing?

Pesky · September 2017

Nope! Never again!

My time in ArcheAge is well and truly over. I could live with the P2W and other cash grab bullshit. But what killed the game for me were these latest patches.

ArcheAge isn't ArcheAge anymore. They destroyed farming. They destroyed gathering. Owning land is pointless now.

Gating everything behind daily vocation is an abomination. I'm never going back!

Albatroes · September 2017

One of the one games that I wish was sub only with cosmetic cash shop at most. Oh well...

Sourajit · September 2017

I was playing for a few days , Hardly 1 or 2 support players in chat. I do not think anyone plays this game anymore.

Athisar · September 2017

If Trion abandoned this game and another publisher took it up without all the standard Trion crap, I bet it'd be really popular.

As it stands it's pretty dead because of what they did to it, aside from the few people who spend thousands each month on it who basically keep it running.

Ozmodan · September 2017

Talonsin said:

I feel bad for the players who have land and are now losing it. Good luck in the new land rush on the new servers.

No land rush, there is plenty available, owning land now is rather pointless considering all the changes.

I really am amazed how clueless Trion has been about this game. Every time I think their changes can't get any worse they do. Like a masochistic publisher who intends to punish their player base as much as they can.

I was tempted to start playing Rift the other day as some friends were back playing it except that the thought of giving Trion any funds was abhorrent.

Kyleran · September 2017

Ozmodan said:

Talonsin said:

I feel bad for the players who have land and are now losing it. Good luck in the new land rush on the new servers.

No land rush, there is plenty available, owning land now is rather pointless considering all the changes.

I really am amazed how clueless Trion has been about this game. Every time I think their changes can't get any worse they do. Like a masochistic publisher who intends to punish their player base as much as they can.

I was tempted to start playing Rift the other day as some friends were back playing it except that the thought of giving Trion any funds was abhorrent.

As I've always understood things, it has usually been the developers of AA who largely dictate the direction the game goes in and not Trion so much, but perhaps not.

But if the game was truly as dead as some claim here I would think Trion would just shut the whole mess down instead of keeping 12 servers running after the merger.

Talonsin · September 2017

Kyleran said:

Ozmodan said:

Talonsin said:

I feel bad for the players who have land and are now losing it. Good luck in the new land rush on the new servers.

No land rush, there is plenty available, owning land now is rather pointless considering all the changes.

I really am amazed how clueless Trion has been about this game. Every time I think their changes can't get any worse they do. Like a masochistic publisher who intends to punish their player base as much as they can.

I was tempted to start playing Rift the other day as some friends were back playing it except that the thought of giving Trion any funds was abhorrent.

As I've always understood things, it has usually been the developers of AA who largely dictate the direction the game goes in and not Trion so much, but perhaps not.

But if the game was truly as dead as some claim here I would think Trion would just shut the whole mess down instead of keeping 12 servers running after the merger.

For a game as fantastic as Archeage is/was and having 21 servers all packed with multi-hour queues, being reduced to 12 servers says a lot. WoW still has a bit more than half their playerbase and Eve was actually growing for years so it is possible to not sink like the titanic after an MMO launches. Of those 12 servers, how many are playing for free and how many are gold farmers working from shacks in China?

I'm not saying it is dead but for a game with that much potential, it sure was mishandled on an almost epic scale.

postlarval · September 2017

Kyleran said:

Allerleirauh said:

toljar said:

When your population leaves because you are a cash grabbing company, who only cares about making a quick buck and not engaging content...

I bet Trion wishes they never put Thunderstruck logs and Aranum in those chest you can buy from the loot store. I have never seen a mass exodus from a game so fast, maybe other than Echo of Soul.

Haven't played ArcheAge for awhile, so you seriously cannot get Thunderstruck logs from planting trees anymore? That ends any desire to return.

You should probably wait for an answer from an informed source before taking any decision.

What? That's not the way of MMORPG.com

I thought you got points for jumping to conclusions.

azurrei · September 2017

coretex666 said:

I am curious how many players would come back to AA if they opened one subs only server without cash shop.

wouldn't matter - people have been burnt enough they will never trust Trion ever again. I for one have not touched a Trion game since they ruined Rift and that stance has served me well for years now, including watching the AA debacle from the sidelines while enjoying many other games from companies that actually care about their customers (or at least act like they care...) After BnS though I am also officially done with playing NcSoft games now too, so I guess add them to pile of garbage on top of Trion.

QuarterStack · September 2017

Renoaku said:

Also ESO is the only reputable MMO worth playing at the moment besides some older games like World OF Warcraft, or Guild Wars 2.

Agreed on this. ESO still gets a bad rap for the issues it had at/around launch. It has grown into a *very* solid MMORPG, with plenty to do, lots of depth and variety. I emphasize the "RPG" part, because it's one of the few titles out there right now that truly deserve and embody that designation.

Is ESO perfect? No. Absolutely not. I have issues with some aspects of it, particularly housing's implementation, among other things. However, the good about it far exceeds the bad.

What gets me is, there's a certain "other MMO" - which you don't list in your post (rightly so, IMO), whose Director/Producer insists can't have certain features, or any more depth than it has, for a variety of reasons, ranging from "it would be too stressful for the players" to "it wouldn't work" to "it can't be done because console limitations" and so on. It's easy enough to assume they're correct so long as you stay in that bubble and don't bother to see what other games offer - which was my case for a while. I let myself remain ignorant.

When I left that "certain other game", I'd spent months and months supporting it, but was finding it becoming extremely repetitive. I decided to take a break, and give ESO another go. Like others, I'd tried it in Beta, and, like many others, stayed away because it just didn't seem to be coming together very well. But, I'd started to see people saying it had improved a lot since then.

Upon diving back in, creating a new character, I was impressed by how much ESO had improved and expanded, and the depth and variety it offered. I then started to get ticked off as I realized that the Director/Producer of "that other game", had been spewing nonsense at me (and the community) for months about what could or couldn't be done in a MMO. Things that the other Director/Producer claimed would be "too stressful for the players" exist in spades in ESO, and the players handle it *just fine*. Things they claimed couldn't be done in that other game "because console support" are done just fine in ESO, despite supporting those same consoles.

In a nutshell, the longer I played ESO, the more I realized that other so-called Dir/Prod is either full of it, or clueless about the genre he's in. And it's only become more apparent since then with every update they make.

Wish it didn't take me so long to be 'snapped out of it'. Better late than never, I guess.

I'm not even playing ESO at the moment - kinda on a hiatus from MMOs for the most part for now - but that is the one MMO I will return to, happily and readily without a second thought. Too bad more people won't give it a fair chance because of what they assume it's like, or because of the missteps made early on.

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