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The Daily Grind: What would you be willing to transfer servers for in an MMO?
As I write this, we're knee-deep in the 24-hour maintenance for Final Fantasy XIV splitting up the North American datacenters. What will I do after...
Final Fantasy XIV’s North American data center split requires maintenance on April 22
April 23rd is the official date for the split of the two North American data centers for Final Fantasy XIV into three, but players on...
Final Fantasy XIV preps for its European data center split starting on April 2nd
It's not the launch of the third Final Fantasy XIV expansion, but the splitting of the European and North American data centers is one of...
Wurm Online addresses server lag and announces plans to move to Amazon Cloud Services
If you've been playing Wurm Online recently, you know that Independence (the server) has been lagging. It was lagging before February 7th, but that...
Final Fantasy XIV’s data center migration is happening in April
One of the big changes coming to Final Fantasy XIV along with the next expansion isn't really a matter of game mechanics; it's a change...
Lost Ark addresses player questions on open beta connectivity issues
After what seems to be forever, Lost Ark is in testing right now in South Korea. Or launch, depending on how you look at...
The Daily Grind: What MMO still needs legacy servers?
2018 has seemed like the year of the legacy/vanilla MMO server, thanks to not just World of Warcraft but RIFT and Age of Conan...
ArcheAge prepares for a new round of ‘server evolutions’
What's this? ArcheAge's servers are evolving! But not into a bird, or a beetle, or some sort of bird-beetle with like fourteen stingers like...
EverQuest II merges one of its last remaining time-locked expansion servers into Antonia Bayle today
Today might be an odd one for some EverQuest II players as the Stormhold server will soon cease to be (if it hasn't already,...
EVE Online is hard at work on fixing downtime and mitigating DDOS attacks
All of the balance changes in the world won't help EVE Online players if the game's servers are down, and considering that the game...
There are no more PvP servers in World of Warcraft
It finally happened. After years of people claiming that it was happening whenever any change was made to PvP servers that the complainer didn't...
Scrolls is reborn as a free title, Caller’s Bane
It was back in February when Mojang's - you surely remember it from Minecraft - online card game Scrolls was pronounced dead, but it...
Lineage 2: Revolution talks about server merges, new servers, and more content coming in May
Server merges happen. You may not want them to happen for a game that you're playing, but they're sometimes just a simple necessity. Of...
Revelation Online is opening a new EU fresh start server today as First Contact launches
Gosh, isn't it nice to have a fresh server to start on? No old connections, no old animosities, no problems to worry about. It's...
Sea of Thieves servers buckle and break under a surge of would-be pirates
Whether you are personally playing it or not, there are a lot of ambitious pirates trying to cram their way into Sea of Thieves...
The Daily Grind: How important is roleplaying to MMORPGs?
It's not exactly a secret that one of my first loves in any MMORPG is roleplaying. The whole reason I have multiple alts in...
EVE Evolved: EVE Online’s case for asymmetric and asynchronous gameplay
If there's one thing that EVE Online does better than any other MMO on the market today, it's persistent gameplay on massive scales. The now-famous...
The Daily Grind: Have server merges ever driven you away from an MMO for good?
When I saw Star Wars: The Old Republic's whole promotion for Knights of the Old Republic, I was momentarily tempted to log back in...
Blade & Soul’s European maintenance is migrating servers to improve future maintenance
Good news, European Blade & Soul fans! Your server maintenance today is going to take twice as long as the North American server maintenance!...
Star Wars: The Old Republic responds to fan concerns about the unexpected server move
Earlier this week, Star Wars: The Old Republic moved all of its game servers to the same location on the east coast. This made...
