Auto Assault servers to merge

By Tom Bramwell Published 10 July, 2006

One big happy family.

Auto Assault's US and European servers are to merge this week, according to NCsoft and NetDevil.

Although the game reviewed fairly well, it's thought that the player-base isn't quite up there with some of NCsoft's bigger titles like City of Heroes and Lineage II - so the merger makes a certain amount of sense.

The result for players will be one big server, called Nexus, which is hosted in the US. The change is set to take place on July 13th.

With communities established in both regions already, NCsoft's posted a forum thread outlining the change and explaining how things will work for people with multiple characters on each server, what's going to happen to clans and so forth.

Those of you still riding around blowing each other up can check it out on the Auto Assault forums.

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Comments (19) Latest comment 6 years ago

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  • Drakron #1 6 years ago

    Putting us with the colonies ... no thanks, there is a reason why we shipped that lot across the ocean.
    Edited by 1 at 10/07/06 @ 17:53

  • Royal Fool #2 6 years ago

    I think Auto Assault just topped 10.000+ subscriptions this month. The game's a massive failure for NCsoft.

  • Pirotic #3 6 years ago

    It's not bad, but so many MMO's around these days it's no wonder newer titles are flopping. I wonder what'll happen if people have used the same name as each other but on different severs, who'll have to be renamed?

  • Kostabi #4 6 years ago

    Most new MMO's look like a giant waste of time and money for developers these days.

    Quality wise they might be the best games ever, but they're never going to topple the Everquest and WOW juggernaut until Blizzard and Sony decide to pack it in.
    Edited by 1 at 10/07/06 @ 19:47

  • yonno #5 6 years ago

    if uve gotta pay a fee then a games gotta be special

  • bigbadbeasty #6 6 years ago

    "someone should make a free MMORPG "

    What like Guild Wars?

  • AtomicBanana #7 6 years ago

    Hahah, guild wars isn't a MMORPG :p

  • Drakron #8 6 years ago

    True, its rubbish.

  • Sko #9 6 years ago

    "Quality wise they might be the best games ever, but they're never going to topple the Everquest and WOW juggernaut until Blizzard and Sony decide to pack it in."

    Surely until WoW came along, people were (incorrectly) saying "but they're never going to topple the Everquest juggernaut until Sony decide to pack it in."?

  • Kostabi #10 6 years ago

    Surely until WoW came along, people were (incorrectly) saying "but they're never going to topple the Everquest juggernaut until Sony decide to pack it in."

    That's true, but the market wasn't as saturated then either and with Ultima dying a death, WOW came along and gave people a different experience compared to EQ.

    Look at the market share WOW has, even established brands like Dungeons & Dragons can't seem to get close. Maybe Warhammer Online and LOTR will have a better chance, but so long as WOW is around and the dominant force it just looks like publishers are pissing money up the wall to me.
    Edited by 2 at 10/07/06 @ 22:23

  • bigbadbeasty #11 6 years ago

    "Hahah, guild wars isn't a MMORPG "

    Thats utter nonsense.

    Bored of having the same discussion about it.....

  • Drakron #12 6 years ago

    Actually the western moved from UO->EQ->WoW.

    EQ was "killed" by EQ2, WoW replaced EQ as top MMORPG and then pretty much concentrated the marked on it with Lineage(I and II) following it in a distant 2nd and 3rd place.

    What destroyed the others RPGs from having a bigger share is hard to say, WoW did marketed the casual players and had much success of being "WarCraft" from "Blizzard", its big market share is due to then to the game having put more people into playing MMORPGs.

    As for the argument over estabilished brands ... well D&D is know but you have NwN and soon NwN2, also they decided to use a relative new setting and not use the heavy popular Forgotten Realms setting, besides why would they have more success that Final Fantasy XI?

  • neuroniky #13 6 years ago

    "Quality wise they might be the best games ever, but they're never going to topple the Everquest and WOW juggernaut until Blizzard and Sony decide to pack it in."

    Everquest is not the juggernaut you probably think it is... in fact WoW is at the top with 6.5 mils subs, followed by Lineage I at 1.5 mils, Lineage II at 1.2 mils (a combined total of 2.8 mils subs, the majority of which in Korea), Runescape at 0.8 mils, and then we have FFXI at 0.5 mils, EQI at 0.2 mils, EQII, Galaxies and CoX all around 0.18 mils and so on...
    All the MMO games have a descending trend after some time, followed by a period of stability (hardcore fans still playing) which ends in a slow but steady descent. WoW is still in a growing trend, but the true anomaly of MMO gaming is... Eve online which, since launch, has kept growing and growing its community more and more (and new records of concurrent playing people keep coming month after month). Kudos to the world of Eve, then, since it has built something that shatters, in every way, the unwritten rules of MMORPGs.

  • GordonJ@work #14 6 years ago

    "someone should make a free MMORPG and pay for the servers with ingame advertising.. not popups or crap like that, just billbords or posters up around the towns :)"

    Speaking of which, anyone know how Anarchy Online is doing, they seem to be giving the game plus all the expansions away for free.
    Edited by 1 at 11/07/06 @ 08:16

  • rinoaMW #15 6 years ago

    "Kudos to the world of Eve, then, since it has built something that shatters, in every way, the unwritten rules of MMORPGs"

    It makes you wonder as it's dull as dishwater...

    And out of interest were did you get those figues from? Some of them seem alittle low compared to some of the subscription reports i've seen...FFXI (for example) at one point had over 1mil in subs and over 2mil active characters. This was a while ago now, so it might have changed, but with the 360 release it must have boosted subs to a similar figure?
    Edited by 1 at 11/07/06 @ 09:52

  • bigbadbeasty #16 6 years ago

    Its also worth noting that the WoW figures are slighty misleading, as Blizzard adds in trial accounts into that figure

  • MrChuckles #17 6 years ago

    Well, if i'm anything to go by, i played EQ for ages, then CoH for a bit, then WoW for ages, then CoV for a bit. So, the length i played them is probably equal to how popular they became.

    I'm interested in Warhammer & LOTR, although at first glance Warhammer seems the more interesting, the LOTR setting is better.

    So, i guess they both have a chance, i'm just hoping for more things to do than just grind tbh.

  • rinoaMW #18 6 years ago

    Hate to shatter your illusions of grandeur for LOTR, but you know its all going to be instanced like DDO, right?

    I happened to like DDO, but it’s not for everyone. But I too am interested in Warhammer as well, and will be a more persistent world. Like WoW.


  • neuroniky #19 6 years ago

    @rinoaMW

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    [link url=http://www.mmogc hart.com/Chart2.html
    ]http://www.mmogc hart.com/Chart2.html
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    It shows all the evolution of user subs for the various games.