Generally speaking, whenever an MMOG company closes down servers it is seen as a bad thing. A very bad thing for a variety of reasons. At best it was in a lapse in judgment, and at worst shuttering servers is seen as the beginning of the end. Most companies recognize this, and attempt to explain why it is a necessary step, or a temporary solution to the underlying population problem. Not Sony. To Sony the upcoming closure of 12 servers is an “overwhelming success.”
To be fair the company explains that the success isn’t the closure of the servers, but a campaign that the company started a few weeks ago to consolidate users. The Free Character Transfer Service went off so well that Sony Online Entertainment will be closing the following dozen servers on October 15 at 5:00 PM PDT to consolidate the population.
- Corbantis
- Europe-Infinity
- Intrepid
- Kauri
- Kettemoor
- Lowca
- Naritus
- Scylla
- Tarquinas
- Tempest
- Valcyn
- Wanderhome
Characters on those servers have until October 15th to move to one of the 13 remaining servers, or risk being unable to access all content and even their Station Access account. Under the service players will be granted one free transfer to any of the baker’s dozen of servers.
What a joke . . .
Just Sony . . .
Ye, i thought the same when i received their EMail, i loled . . .