Warhammer Online servers closing

By Robert Purchese Published 8 February, 2011

Free char transfers off doomed worlds.

Three Warhammer Online servers are for the scaffold: US realms Iron Rock and Volkmar, and European world Carroburg.

Developer Mythic begins free character transfers next week to relocate populations before those worlds are "retired".

Residents of Carroburg will relocate to Drakenwald; Iron Rock and Volkmar residents will move to Gorfang.

To "facilitate" the migration, Drakenwald and Gorfang become multi-realms - i.e. servers where accounts are allowed characters from both factions: Order and Destruction. The available character slots are bumped to 20, too.

Guild leaders will be given the chance to migrate their entire flock to the new world.

For three weeks, Carroburg, Iron Rock and Volkmar will be deemed Legacy servers - places where no new characters can be created. Once depleted, they'll be retired.

Incidentally, you don't have to move to Drakenwald and Gorfang - you can choose to go elsewhere. However, doing so incurs a cost.

"The gameplay experience of our customers is something we highly value," promised Mythic on the Warhammer Online website. "We don't make changes like this lightly.

"A lot of metrics and analysis accompanies this type of decision. We feel that these changes will help to ensure that server options continue to facilitate that best RvR experience out there.

"Thanks for playing and see you on the battlefield!"

Warhammer Online took on World of Warcraft back in 2008. One's gone on to attract 12 million paying subscribers a month, the other now comes with an endless free trial.

Picture of Robert.

About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds. @Clert on Twitter.

Read more articles from Robert by visiting the Robert Purchese archive page.

You may also like...

Comments (7) Latest comment 1 year ago

Comments for this article are now closed, but please feel free to continue chatting on the forum!

  • Optimaximal #1 1 year ago

    I suppose gradual culling of the flock is better than the wild-scale (second-month?) server consolidation that happens with a lot of other MMOs...

  • Ferral #2 1 year ago

    They should make this one F2P instead of endless trial, worked for so many other games in this genre and helps bring cash in through micro transactions. I played it for a few months beginning of last year, not a bad game really, just couldnt justify the subs for it and went back to LOTRO.

  • levitate #3 1 year ago

    I bought this game in 2008, paid around £10. I couldn't justify playing this for more than a week though. I'm pretty sure the game's been developed and enhanced since then but this wasn't my cup of tea at all. At least I tried.

  • Spekingur #4 1 year ago

    Yeah, that trial thing isn't enough to satisfy curiosity.

  • xEisenhorn #5 1 year ago

    Really liked the game, till i got to experiance the endgame PVP side. Have they fixed the mass spam castle battles ?

  • modo_komodo #6 1 year ago

    I, too, thought this was a really decent effort and could have gone the distance had it not been for the horrific server balance issues.

    I played as an order character and we just got constantly steam rolled by destruction.

    I blame this on everyone setting up destro characters having seen the balance tipped in favour of Horde characters in WoW.

  • Amgzone #7 1 year ago

    Shame, this game had great potential and they mucked it up!