Glorious Alpha Two Testers!
Alpha Two Realms are now unlocked for Phase II testing!
For our initial launch, testing will begin on Friday, December 20, 2024, at 10 AM Pacific and continue uninterrupted until Monday, January 6, 2025, at 10 AM Pacific. After January 6th, we’ll transition to a schedule of five-day-per-week access for the remainder of Phase II.
You can download the game launcher here and we encourage you to join us on our for the most up to date testing news.
Alpha Two Realms are now unlocked for Phase II testing!
For our initial launch, testing will begin on Friday, December 20, 2024, at 10 AM Pacific and continue uninterrupted until Monday, January 6, 2025, at 10 AM Pacific. After January 6th, we’ll transition to a schedule of five-day-per-week access for the remainder of Phase II.
You can download the game launcher here and we encourage you to join us on our for the most up to date testing news.
Number of Servers
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I did a search for this but didn't find anything. How many servers are they planning to have?
This is a point of concern for me, if there aren't 1000's player on each server it's not going to feel much like a living world.
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We don't know how many within each zone will be available
We might see login queues for a few days during launch, but we'll just have to deal with it instead of having too many servers that will eventually be dead.
The problem companies like Blizzard had in the past was they weren't using the cloud. Rumor was that IS was going with Google to host their servers. So it is a fairly easy process taking just a couple days to get a server up and running in a region, unlike companies in the past that had to buy/rent physical server farms, staff them with people to keep them running, all the while losing money on the cost.
What I would be more worried about is the plateau issue that occurs with every subscription based game. At around a year the population stabilizes, servers that are under population stay that way. New people coming in tend to want to go where things are hopping. It will be interesting to see what lore reason they come up with for server merges that are inevitable. Or maybe they will just go the route of "Move it or lose it."
This is a very real concern I have with AOC that there will be an initial burst of population with a gradual die off and eventual shutting down of servers, I know that is somewhat negative but history has shown all games go through this. While all of us here want AOC to be a roaring success and perhaps it will be, it will not be for everyone there will be an initial influx of people then some will find it not to their taste and stop playing. Lets face it AOC intends to revive some concepts that the I want it now generation are going to find not to their taste.